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...particularly peeved with Republican Chief Inquisitor Malcolm Wallop, 45. During 17 days of hearings, the freshman Senator and Wyoming rancher has asked Civiletti and five other witnesses hundreds of questions in a search for evidence of willful wrongdoing in the Administration's firing last January of Republican David Marston as U.S. Attorney for eastern Pennsylvania. Jimmy Carter ordered Marston's dismissal after a request by Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg, who later turned out to be under investigation in a case involving financial irregularities in the construction of a Philadelphia hospital...
...along, Bell has insisted that if anyone was to be questioned about the Marston case, it was he. Bell agreed to appear before the committee on the understanding that members would vote on the nomination soon afterward...
During three hours of testimony, Bell described the Marston affair as "the most about nothing I've ever heard." He roundly discounted Marston's skills as an investigator of political corruption in Pennsylvania and claimed that Marston had "practically destroyed the morale of [his] office." Indeed, said Bell, Marston has never tried a case. The real "moving force" in the probes was Alan Lieberman, a Marston subordinate and career Government lawyer who is still in charge of them. Bell described Marston as good at "calling press conferences" and remembered that when the U.S. Attorney's office...
...long evening of affectionate oratory at the Gus Genetti Hotel ballroom was the uncomfortable fact that the dapper 74-year-old legislator is a prime target of a federal influence-peddling investigation. Indeed, coincidentally on the eve of the dinner, the Justice Department released an affidavit in which David Marston, the former U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia whose dismissal by the Carter Administration created a national controversy, predicted that Flood was "certain" to be indicted. But the closest anyone at the Genetti came to bringing up Flood's troubles was when County Commissioner Edmund Wideman chastised the nation...
...Wallop has persisted with hundreds of questions. How, he asks, could Civiletti not have been aware of the details of Marston's investigations, particularly the fact that the targets included two Pennsylvania Congressmen, Joshua Eilberg and Daniel Flood? Civiletti said he had never even heard of Flood until recently. Wallop was incredulous. "Senator. I have no idea who three-fourths of the Congressmen are," said Civiletti wryly...