Word: sirica
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...Lowell Weicker, with mind-deadening consistency explodes in a fit of moral outrage every afternoon at four o'clock, in time to dominate the evening news. Silbert and his team worried less about the strength of their case than they did about the behavior of Judge "Maximum John" Sirica, whose obvious assumption of presidential involvement threatened to blow the case in appeal...
According to Higgins there were at least two tragedies in the affair precipitated by the over-zealousness of Sirica, the Ervin committee and journalists. The case against John Connally hinged on the testimony of one man, Jake Jacobsen, and would never have been brought to court in normal times. Even more regrettable was the conviction for perjury of Attorney General Kleindienst, who actually threatened to resign when asked by Nixon to interfere with the ITT case, but denied to Sen Edward Kennedy's committee that such a request had ever been made...
...evil" men such as Mafia chiefs should be pursued in all possible ways, Higgins sometimes vacillates into a sophomoric ethical relativism. He hints that there is no difference between John Ehrlichmann's decision to screw Daniel Ellsberg because he sees him as a threat to national security and John Sirica's pursuit of Nixon with only a passing consideration for the appearance of due process...
...another question of audibility, Nixon denied that he had ever called Judge John Sirica a "wop." He said that what he heard himself say on tape was that Sirica was "the kind I want...
...John Sirica, LL.D., judge, U.S. district court, District of Columbia. In investigating the truth, you have done justice...