Word: probed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wrongly Accused. The committee did not ask the IRS Commissioner about charges, brought by disgruntled members of his own investigative staff, that he had improperly halted an IRS probe of wealthy U.S. citizens who may have filed false tax claims based on income-losing ventures in the Bahamas. Church doubted if this fell under the committee's scope. Privately, committee members seemed satisfied that Alexander had been wrongly accused; he had prudently interrupted the investigation because some of the IRS evidence might have been "tainted" by the way it was acquired. An IRS undercover agent apparently had supplied...
...initial digging into the Watergate scandal in 1972. He and several other agents wanted to conduct an aggressive investigation that might well have led them to the White House officials who ran the Watergate coverup. But Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray was reluctant to push the probe, especially after the CIA, at the instigation of White House aides, urged him to restrict the inquiry, ostensibly to protect U.S. intelligence activities in Mexico. At Bates' suggestion, Gray asked the CIA to put the requests in writing, and the CIA officials backed off. Instead of rewarding Bates and his colleagues...
...last week's meeting, Tyler argued that the Justice Department investigation was the best way to forestall charges that the FBI was covering up the case. Some agents in his audience agreed, but others did not. One official later cited the probe as evidence that "Kelley doesn't have his hand on the throttle any more-the FBI is just floundering." Still, a day later, the Justice Department made a further attempt to mollify the FBI agents. Officials restored the five agents to duty but did not go so far as to call off the grand jury investigation...
...civilized behavior." Later in the week a Palm Beach, Fla., Post reporter pawed through garbage bins at the National Enquirer's headquarters in nearby Lantana and came up with a revealing two-year-old memo from Publisher Generoso Pope Jr. exhorting his troops: "Prod, push and probe the main characters in the story. Help them frame their answers. Ask leading questions like 'Do you ever go into the corner...
...other hand, is struggling just to keep the remnants of its superb cadre of engineers and technicians together until public opinion will again support bold new programs-not an immediate prospect. In fact, Congress appears on the verge of killing off another promising NASA project, an unmanned probe of the Venus atmosphere...