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...John McCain, a prisoner in Hanoi during the Vietnam War, has sponsored legislation to ban interrogation methods like waterboarding. If Congress holds new hearings, anyone called to testify will need a lawyer. And with more detainees being released and claiming they were tortured, some CIA officers' need for legal counsel???and insurance to cover the cost?is sure to rise...
...reached its peak since St. Clair became his chief legal strategist early in January. Not only is Nixon being scrutinized by the Judiciary Committee but, more important, he is on trial in the court of public opinion. At long last he has a lawyer who?unlike his previous counsel???is a seasoned courtroom attorney. Moreover, St. Clair's Washington experience (see box page 12) goes back to the classic Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, when he was an assistant to Joseph N. Welch, the Army's counsel. A poised and suave performer, he has brought an aura of aggressive confidence...
...John W. Dean III, who had been fired by the President as his chief counsel???ostensibly because he seemed hopelessly enmeshed in the Watergate concealments?told federal investigators that Nixon had personally congratulated him for helping cover up broad Nixon Administration involvement in the wiretapping. Dean claimed this had happened when he was called to Nixon's office last September, shortly after indictments were returned by a federal grand jury against only the seven men arrested at the time of the Watergate breakin. Dean described the meeting?in one version also attended by Bob Haldeman?as one full of "smiles...
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