Word: mardian
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After laboring for three months, the Justice Department last week obtained the long-expected indictments in the Watergate bugging case-and announced that the investigation was "over, for all intents and purposes." The indictments, which did not involve John Mitchell, Robert Mardian or any high-level personnel of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, failed to explain the motives for the political espionage at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, or who on the President's committee authorized the secret funding of the spy project...
...intelligence squad grew out of a team of so-called "plumbers," originally recruited by the Administration to investigate leaks to the media. They included G. Gordon Liddy, a former White House staffer and then attorney for the C.R.P.'s finance committee; Robert Mardian, a former assistant U.S. Attorney General and an official for the C.R.P., and E. Howard Hunt, a former White House consultant. The lead man in the Watergate caper was Bernard Barker, an ex-CIA agent. Federal investigators learned that $114,000 from the C.R.P. had found its way into Barker's Miami bank account...
Fishing. Most prosecutors are understandably eager to make use of the grand jury's investigative powers. Robert Mardian, chief of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division, has said that grand juries in pursuit of wrongdoers "can run their tail off." Which is precisely what bothers many critics. Particularly in cases with political implications-like the Pentagon papers investigation-the Government, say some legal experts, does indeed use the grand jury to run the tail off assorted dissenters, either for pure harassment or as part of "a fishing expedition" to see what unexpected information the questioning may turn...
When the Times refused to comply. Assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian began the Government's legal attack by seeking a temporary restraining order?the prelude to a permanent injunction?in Manhattan's federal court. By chance, the case went before a recent Nixon appointee, U.S. District Judge Murray I. Gurfein, who was serving his first day on the bench. Last Tuesday the new judge issued the restraining order and set a Friday hearing to consider the injunction. Meanwhile, the Government showed concern about its key legal problem: how to prove the alleged injury. It asked Judge Gurfein to order...
...Mardian's political views place him a few paces to the right of John Mitchell, but the boss joins others in regarding Mardian as a first-rate lawyer and tireless prosecutor. Because Mitchell has shifted dozens of key cases to the revived Internal Security Division, Mardian is already considered the Justice Department's No. 3 man behind Mitchell and Kleindienst. One former colleague sums up: "He's remarkable for the clarity with which he thinks, but he's an absolutely cold-blooded political operator...