Word: jeb
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...polygraphs mostly to probe leads and verify specific facts, areas in which, experts concede, the machines are at their best. The agency also employs highly trained examiners, who usually spend half a day on each session (compared with an average of an hour in private industry). Tests given to Jeb Magruder and Gordon Strachan led to evidence of the Watergate coverup. Right now, Justice Department investigators are using polygraphs extensively in their search for the source of Abscam leaks. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti has ruled that an "adverse inference" may be drawn if an employee...
...Mitchell in his small inner office. At my request there was an easel set up. I greeted the Attorney General and, as Magruder [Jeb Stuart Magruder, deputy director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President] seated himself in front of the desk with Dean, I set up my charts...
...went to a secure phone in the Sit Room [White House Situation Room]. When the White House operator got Jeb Magruder in California, I told him that I had an urgent message for John Mitchell that had to be delivered before his noon press conference and over a secure phone. In the Situation Room I had access to a KYX scrambler. The Situation Room personnel told me that the closest KYX to Magruder was at an Air Force missile base nearby, and I told Magruder to go there...
...Listen, Jeb, Goddamn it. Get your ass to a secure phone and call me, or I guarantee by noon Mitchell will be building you a new one." I hung...
...Listen, Jeb, this is not time for recriminations. I take responsibility, O.K.? But that's not the problem now. The problem is Mitchell's got a press conference out there at noon. He could get questions on this. He's got to know and have a statement ready or he could be sandbagged...