Word: prosecutor
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George Parker, a former government prosecutor, testified last week that Ryan and Walter Rockler, who headed the Office of Special Investigations, rebuffed him when he expressed doubts about the government's evidence that Demjanjuk was "Ivan the Terrible...
Earlier this year, The Cleveland Plain-Dealerobtained a Justice Department memo in which adifferent prosecutor asked Ryan to pressure theSoviet Union for information about Ivan Marczenko,now widely believed to be the real "Ivan theTerrible." It is not known whether Ryan, in aJanuary 1980 trip to Moscow, asked Sovietofficials about Marczenko...
...Justice Department, not only for areas like civil rights, the agency seems hopelessly captivated by right-wingers. Attorney General William Barr's actions involving Iraqgate--including his denial of a Congressional request for a special prosecutor--are only the latest evidence for that. So is the Central Intelligence Agency, having admitting to lying to Congress and a federal court about the use of taxpayer money in Iraq's pre-war military build...
...Friday, after weeks of pressure over his handling of the Iraqgate affair, Barr named Frederick Lacey, 72, a formidable ex-prosecutor and federal judge from New Jersey, to serve as an in-house "independent" investigator. Still, congressional Democrats are demanding a court-appointed special prosecutor with full autonomy. Lacey insists that he would resign if Barr or the White House blocked him. (See related story on page...
Democratic Senator David Boren, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, last week called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations. In a defensive counterstrike, Attorney General William P. Barr announced that he had asked retired federal Judge Frederick B. Lacey of New Jersey to investigate the Justice Department's handling of the case against an Italian bank, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose Atlanta branch provided $4 billion in illegal loans and loan guarantees to Iraq. In the meantime the CIA continues to turn over new files, including one report that U.S. and Italian officials had accepted...