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...first report the incident to the FBI or the Senate Watergate committee, the report charges, because CIA officials feared that Pennington might have operated as a domestic agent, possibly in violation of the agency's charter. Not until last February was the information released to the Ervin committee, and then only because a CIA employee stubbornly insisted on it. Explaining its delay in taking action, the CIA claims that its director of security did not learn of the McCord episode until last February...
...hearing was on Nixon's nomination of Earl J. Silbert to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. He was a member of the original Justice Department team that investigated the Watergate breakin, and the Senators were far from happy with its performance. But Ervin made it clear that he felt the blame for the original investigation's failure should rest primarily on Petersen and Richard Kleindienst, who was Attorney General at the time...
Terrible, Terrible. The imputation, and Ervin's barrage of questions, outraged Petersen. He shouted, banged his fist on the table, protested that the Senator was being unfair. He complained: "It is fine for you to be critical-this is a terrible, terrible, terrible thing-but do us justice, will...
...outbursts did not divert Ervin. He asked one question after another about why investigators had not followed up evidence pointing to the likelihood that Nixon's re-election committee and the White House were deeply involved in the planning and financing of the Watergate breakin. Petersen replied that he had let White House and campaign officials avoid testifying before the Watergate grand jury to spare them publicity, and that he had called Silbert off other aspects of the case out of caution. Perhaps, he allowed, he had showed "too much restraint...
Petersen said he was still baffled by the Watergate affair. "I have not fixed the motive for it, or any rational motive," he declared. But Ervin hinted that Petersen might have found the case easier to understand if he had not been so intent on serving the President. Petersen remarked: "If you mean we accepted the lies of all those people who lied to us, I guess we did. You know, sir, we were snookered...