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...that frequent burglaries occurred during previous Administrations. What he failed to mention, however, is that the great majority of the missions were undertaken by the FBI without the knowledge or approval of either the President or the Attorney General. The FBI'S "bag jobs" were mostly attempts to obtain material to break the codes of foreign governments (inevitably, the agency imbued its own efforts with a code name: the Anagram Program) or to tap the telephones of organized-crime figures. Some of the burglaries directed against Mafia types were authorized by various Attorneys General, but J. Edgar Hoover apparently...
Much more often, however, the owners are simply following their political beliefs. They like Richard Nixon; why should they be eager to obtain wire service stories suggesting him guilty of criminal behavior? They like their friends at the local country club; how could they be expected to sponsor investigations into the financial dealings of those friends? Newspaper owners are integral to the American elite, molders and managers of its policy. They can hardly be expected to question their own behavior...
Agnew argued that the credibility of such witnesses is open to serious question. "These accusations," he said, "are coming from those who have found themselves in very deep trouble and are seeking to extricate themselves from this trouble and are flirting with the idea that they can obtain immunity or reduced charges, perhaps, by doing so." Moreover, according to an observer familiar with the investigation, the Government's case "is based principally, up to now, on the witnesses' testimony." If the case should ever go to trial in that form?one man's word against that of two others?...
Rather, what Senator Ervin and the Committee should develop is a more effective means of dealing with a scandal after it occurs: a means that would obtain the truth for the people as soon as possible, something our present system has failed to do with Watergate. 13 months have now passed since the Watergate burglars were captured in the Democratic National Committee headquarters, yet we still do not know exactly who approved the break-in and the subsequent cover-up. These months of anxious waiting have resulted in a gradual erosion of much of the public's trust...
...trial of Aaron Burr on treason charges. The situation is different when the Legislative Branch is locked in direct conflict with the Executive. Only last year Justice William O. Douglas argued that it is "no concern of the courts, as I see it whether a committee of Congress can obtain [an Executive Department document]. The federal courts do not sit as an ombudsman, refereeing the disputes between the other two branches." The statement was an aside in a dissent; but since that is the view of the court's most liberally activist member, it seems possible that the Supreme...