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Directed by JOHN HUSTON Screenplay by JOHN HUSTON and GLADYS HILL
...report, Richardson asked that the Justice Department be allowed to "screen" any avenue of Cox's investigation to decide whether it was proper. Cox refused. Later, Richardson tried to dissuade Cox from interviewing Secret Service agents about the handling of White House tapes and Nixon Aide Tom Charles Huston about his illegal plan for domestic surveillance of political dissidents. Cox resisted-and prevailed...
...those tired of the great white shark, or behind in their English 70 reading, John Huston's Moby Dick, with wooden Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, continues at the Orson Welles. The footage of whaling is impressive, and the movie sticks close to Melville's opus. --Jeff Flanders...
...Huston admitted that his-and the CIA's-remedies could have become worse than the disease. "The biggest mistake I made was that I assumed the integrity of the intelligence people would be so great that despite the sweeping nature of their powers, they would be used only in the most narrow and restricted circumstances. I didn't consider that the person using that power would not be [former CIA director] Dick Helms but [convicted Watergate burglar] Howard Hunt." And, he added, "the danger is that you move from the kid with the bomb to the kid with...
Vitally Important. Sounding scarcely different from the most critical Senators, Huston, now an Indianapolis lawyer, said, "It seems to me that these [intelligence] agencies operate in a world of their own. They are not accountable to anyone. The problem is that you must give these agencies enough independence to protect our liberties and yet still hold them accountable to higher authority...