Word: deceitfully
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...They] unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other, to commit offenses against the United States ... [They] would corruptly influence, obstruct and impede ... the due administration of justice ... and by deceit, craft, trickery and dishonest means, defraud the United States...
Which, when you get down to it, is not too different from the way the world looks on the evening news. Only there it is the government that appears a maze of fraud and deceit, its machine a mystery run by mad men. Watergate has given even greater cause to conspiracy theory; it wrecked public trust in the powerful, spotlighted sin among the elect. But not, for many, brightly enough. Nixon could be neither caught nor convicted. And a lesson was that nothing in the government is what it says or appears to be. Now nobody believes that the Energy...
...Here is a vote for James McCord. In an era of secrecy and deceit, only he had the courage to "tell it like...
...Attorney General and a new special prosecutor, equipped with not quite convincing promises of independence. Both are reputable men, but it seems to us that these appointments, or even the possible appointment of a prosecutor by the court, can no longer clear away the hopeless miasma of deceit and suspicion...
...this action is no substitute for speedy impeachment. A special prosecutor must see that guilty individuals be investigated and brought to justice; it is the responsibility of Congress to see that office holders who abuse their power be removed from office. Each day it becomes clearer that Nixon, through deceit and ignorance of the standards of law and morality, has disqualified himself from holding the presidency a day longer. Congress must impeach and remove Nixon from office without any further hesitation...