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...interim report of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee investigating the confirmation of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan was damaging enough. The 46-page text, which was issued last week, accused FBI Director William Webster and then Executive Assistant Director Francis Mullen of withholding information that raised serious questions about Donovan's fitness for office. As a result, the committee charged, the FBI "usurped the Senate's constitutional responsibility" and "compromised the Senate's ability to inform itself...
...incriminating evidence. In a letter to the Labor Committee dated Sept. 17, 1982, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Robert McConnell said that the FBI had "located no information to suggest that such a check was made in any field office." In his own testimony before the Labor Committee, Mullen also contradicted his boss, saying that at the time of Webster's assertion, the field offices had not been asked about Donovan...
...Mullen's testimony cast doubt, as well, on his own statement in January 1981 that the bureau had "no information which would reflect unfavorably upon Mr. Donovan in any manner." This clean bill persuaded the Labor Committee to recommend that Donovan be confirmed. The full Senate approved Donovan in February 1981, but inquiries continued. When a special prosecutor concluded last year that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to indict Donovan, the President proclaimed the case "closed." But evidence that the FBI had withheld information linking Donovan's old firm, Schiavone Construction Co., to organized crime prompted Labor Committee...
...things weren't supposed to be this easy for the Crimson. A rush of recent mishaps, put Pew out with a knee injury, has kept DenHartog out of games with back problems, haw left Black. Mullen and Clifton bothered with leg injuries, and caused Crimson Coach Catole Kleinfelder to call several J.V. players up to the varsity ranks...
Backs--Beth Mullen...