Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another unsettling element is the extensive leakage of the facts of the case to the press even before the targets of the probe were told they were under investigation. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: "This is not a press leak but a press hemorrhage." Former Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox believes that "little leaks are one thing. Systematically giving out information of this scale raises real worries about the sensitivity of the people engaged in the administration of justice." Burke Marshall, a Yale law professor who once served as Assistant U.S. Attorney General, complained in the New York Times...
...Cox was fired as Watergate special prosecutor during the "Saturday Night Massacre" in 1973. He had refused to cease investigation allegations of misconduct in the Nixon Administration...
...head of Common Cause, Cox's views will once again be heard on Capitol Hill. He believes Common Cause has a "large voice and great influence" on the Hill...
Fisher said Cox's broad legal experience for the government and his national reputation as an authority on the Constitution were probably factors in his selection...
...While we don't get everything we want, any representative or senator would tell you he listened very attentively to Common Cause positions," Cox said...