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Last week Levi told the Senate committee that his department is drafting an order that would allow the FBI to investigate domestic dissidents only if there is "a likelihood" that they are involved in violent and illegal activities. The directive would also prohibit the FBI from trying to discredit or disrupt the organizations unless there was no other way to eliminate "an immediate risk to human life." Under the draft guidelines, the FBI would have to inform the Attorney General of all domestic security probes; in turn, he would be required to halt any investigation that failed to meet...
...imagination to deduce that Ford, a veteran of 27 years in Washington, was one of the leading "buddies." Afterward, Reagan refused to be pinned down on specific issues, such as the right size for the U.S. defense budget or whether he would have condoned the FBI campaign to discredit Martin Luther King...
...area including the Ras Sudr oilfields; that move is now scheduled to be completed by mid-November. Almost simultaneously, Syrian and Israeli troops clashed on the Golan Heights. It was the first such incident since the Syrian-Israeli disengagement in May 1974. The Syrian strategy seemed clearly designed to discredit Sadat in the Arab world on the eve of his departure to Washington. Damascus apparently intends to raise tension on the Golan to draw world attention to this unsolved problem, and President Hafez Assad has warned that Syria may not renew the U.N. force mandate, which expires...
Scott, who is hiding out with his wife Micki, phoned Examiner Reporter Larry Kramer last week to denounce the Rolling Stone piece as a "crass, sensationalized attempt to discredit Patty Hearst and her defense." He did not dispute the story but insisted that Kohn and Weir got their information while working as investigators for Scott's former defense attorney, Michael Kennedy. If that is true, then Kohn and Weir would be guilty of a clear breach of journalistic ethics...
They were honest about wanting to neutralize these people. They were hon est about saying they were dangerous and, you know, could destroy the system we had. They were right. There are many ways to neutralize an enemy. You can kill him-that's the ultimate neutralization. Discredit him so he can't do any work-that's another way. You can hassle him until he gets burned out and leaves voluntarily...