Word: coverup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which, experts concede, the machines are at their best. The agency also employs highly trained examiners, who usually spend half a day on each session (compared with an average of an hour in private industry). Tests given to Jeb Magruder and Gordon Strachan led to evidence of the Watergate coverup. Right now, Justice Department investigators are using polygraphs extensively in their search for the source of Abscam leaks. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti has ruled that an "adverse inference" may be drawn if an employee of the FBI or any other part of the Justice Department balks at submitting...
...anyone in the Justice Department. But that only made things worse-much worse. Three days later Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti had to recall publicly that he had, after all, discussed the subject briefly with the President himself on June 17. That statement touched off fresh Republican cries of a "coverup" and gave heart to the restless Democrats aiming at dumping Carter as their presidential candidate when the party convenees in Madison Square Garden...
...York-New Jersey area were angry at what they considered a premature termination of the Abscam operation. Abscam was shut down, these New York officials apparently believed, just as it was about to reach more members of Congress than the eight already involved. Fearing a high-level coverup, the advocates of this theory claim, the lower-level officials decided to make sure that Abscam's results to date were spread on the public record...
What has heightened outrage in Miami is the fact that the indicted policemen -Ira Diggs, 31, Alex Marrero, 25, Michael Watts, 30, and William Hanlon, 27 -had a history of brutality charges. So did Herbert Evans Jr., 33, who was implicated in the coverup. In all, the five men have been cited in 47 citizen complaints and 13 internal review probes in the past seven years. Not one ever received severe disciplinary measures, although Diggs and Evans were relieved of street patrol for short periods. With the trial set for March, the four officers could go to prison...