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Fire Target. Far from quitting, Agnew was attacking more vigorously than ever, and his target was no less than the Justice Department of his own Administration and, by implication, Republican Attorney General Elliot Richardson and even Republican President Richard Nixon. The specific target of his fire was Henry Petersen, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, who is supervising the investigation of Agnew's conduct while a Maryland official (see box following page). But Agnew, as part of the Nixon Administration, knows better than most that Petersen is hardly a sovereign agent, that Richardson by his own admission...
...main problems in the early Cox investigation, Vorenberg said, was making a smooth transition from the Justice Department's investigation under Petersen. Vorenberg said that though the Justice Department prosecutors showed no hostility to the Cox staff, "there was obvious disappointment" on their part when the investigation was taken out of their hands...
During the Senate Watergate hearings Petersen claimed that the appointment a special prosecutor was unnecessary and that the investigation was already 90 per cent complete when Cox was named...
Vorenberg disputed Petersen's charges...
Vorenberg said that he continued to respect Petersen and that Petersen and the regular staff fully cooperated with Cox during the transition between the two investigations...