Word: obstructively
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...They] unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other, to commit offenses against the United States ... [They] would corruptly influence, obstruct and impede ... the due administration of justice ... and by deceit, craft, trickery and dishonest means, defraud the United States...
...INDICTMENT Friday of seven of President Nixon's former top aides for conspiracy to obstruct justice, perjury, obstruction of justice, and lying to the FBI is an important and welcome step in the right direction, and we share Nixon's hope for quick impartial trials. Presumably there will soon be more indictments, for burglary and other crimes, and there should be quick impartial trials for those, too. But the Watergate grand jury left a number of important figures more or less associated with the Watergate investigations unindicted and in some cases uninvestigated, even though there seem to be solid grounds...
Alexander Haig was one of the generals who ran the Indochina war. In the last year, he's become one of President Nixon's chief advisers, helping to preside over the Nixon's administration's apparent attempts to obstruct the course of justice in the Watergate investigation...
...John Rhodes, predicted that the Judiciary Committee will vote to impeach. Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson, a good political weather vane, declared, "This is the penultimate link in the chain of evidence that has steadily been forged to show that there has been a conscious, deliberate effort to obstruct justice. One has the feeling of approaching the final denouement in this drama." He also thought the mystery of the erasure should soon be solved fee THE ESSAY...
...House does not conduct trials," Rodino said later, "and this, in effect, would be a trial of a criminal proceeding." At length the Democrats decided that there was at least a suspicion that Agnew was trying to "obstruct" justice rather than get "a fair trial." If the House looked into the case, Agnew would have all the more reason to call for a halt to the grand jury's actions...