Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robesonian and held 17 of the newspaper's employees for ten hours. The duo demanded that Governor James Martin investigate the alleged mistreatment of blacks and Native Americans by local Sheriff Hubert Stone, who has long been a figure of controversy. They surrendered after Martin's office promised a probe...
...says that the internal reviews of the faculties discovered no major improprieties or evidence of wrongdoing. But the president is still waiting for the results of the Kennedy School's internal probe, which may provide more interesting reading...
...racist taunting of Agent Donald Rochon was limited to the bureau's Omaha and Chicago offices, but the domestic surveillance was nationwide, involving 52 of the FBI's 59 field offices. The investigation started in 1981 as a probe of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, an organization sympathetic to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. It soon grew much broader. Some 1,200 pages of FBI documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a lawyers' group critical of Administration policy. The documents show that the investigation eventually touched...
...claims that it was looking into "alleged criminal activity rather than the motives and beliefs of those being investigated." Critics say that when the bureau failed to find evidence to support a criminal charge, it reclassified its effort as a "counterterrorism" probe, an approach that gives agents broader latitude to investigate U.S. citizens. Gauging the limits of counterterrorism guidelines, which are classified, seemed to leave some field offices in a quandary. In August 1984 the FBI's Denver office sent a plea to headquarters in Washington: "The field is still not sure of how much seemingly legitimate political activity...
When asked about the reports, McKay said cryptically that "we have been investigating this matter for some time." But he refused to confirm whether he had the alleged memo. Nathan Lewin, an attorney representing Meese in the ongoing probe, termed the allegation "reprehensible" and "false in important respects." Lewin declared that "no actual or potential violation of law was brought to Mr. Meese's attention during his limited participation in discussions regarding the project." He too declined to say whether there was such a memo...