Word: subpoenae
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...last January, that the U.S. could survive a nuclear war if enough people dug homemade shelters. The Senators wanted to use Jones' testimony to publicize the Administration's casual attitude toward limited nuclear war and its unwarranted faith in civil defense, but they had to threaten a subpoena before a reluctant Pentagon would allow him to appear. Jones was subdued and careful. In a barely audible voice, he said he had not meant to "imply that nuclear war was anything less than a terrible disaster." He left it to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle to defend...
After a brief two-hour Good Friday session. Judge Meyer granted a defense request for an out-of-state subpoena to get mental health records for one of Hussain's alleged victims. Defense Attorney Kenneth M. Goldberg said yesterday that he expected the records would show that one of the alleged victims had been committed to a mental institution...
...Moscow, were not to know what a fateful day Oct. 20 was for the presidency: Special Prosecutor Cox refused to accept summaries of the Nixon tapes reviewed by Senator Stennis; he wanted the tapes themselves; he rejected Nixon's order that he renounce the right to subpoena further documents. Nixon forced a showdown by sacking Cox, which led to the resignation of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and the firing of Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus...
Martin ignored a subpoena to appear before a grand jury on Aug. 11, and then hatched a more outlandish version of what had happened: a black-masked member of "the Guardian Angels of the Underworld" had carried out the ambush to prevent him from exposing the satanic cult. On Aug. 17, Martin ducked another grand jury appearance-for his own safety, he said...
...look into such dubious practices, and it disbanded a year ago. The Senate subcommittee, dissatisfied with the results, undertook its own review of the investigation. The new report charges that Labor's Special Investigations Staff hired only 28 of its authorized complement of 45 investigators, was deprived of subpoena power as a matter of department policy and was prevented by "bureaucratic infighting and naivete" from working with the Justice Department to build criminal cases. Most incredibly, the task force was ordered by Labor higher-ups not to conduct "third party" inquiries-that is, to disregard officially the unsavory recipients...