Word: subpoenaing
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Seeking Evidence. If Sirica decides not to give the grand jury evidence to the Judiciary Committee, the committee will issue a subpoena for it. In any event, the committee will certainly push on to subpoena other White House documents and tapes that Jaworski has not been able to acquire. Jaworski too is determined to pursue his own requests for such material in court. At his press conference, Nixon distorted Jaworski's position in declaring that the special prosecutor had agreed that the grand jury had "all the information that it needed in order to bring to a conclusion...
Some grand juries are merely rubber stamps for prosecutors, who use the institution's wide-ranging powers of subpoena to harass suspects against whom they have little real evidence. But several members of the Watergate grand jury have acquired such expertness and shown such diligence in questioning witnesses that they have become true partners of Leon Jaworski and the other prosecutors. Once last spring the jury members were so intent on their deliberations that they stayed in session until midnight, when they discovered that the cleaning people had locked them in. It took ten minutes of shouting and pounding...
Chairman Peter Rodino's committee intends to seek the evidence in two parallel paths. It will first request the material directly from the White House, and will promptly subpoena it if the President's attorneys refuse to comply. Jaworski rightly declares that he is bound by law not to give grand jury evidence to any other body unless a court orders him to do so. Last week he turned over to the committee a helpful list of the 17 tapes and more than 700 documents that his staff has acquired...
...could issue subpoenas directly to Jaworski for the material. Jaworski would probably seek a ruling from Sirica on whether he should comply with the subpoena, and Judiciary Committee staffers believe that the White House might have some difficulty demonstrating a legal right to intervene...
Unless Nixon reverses himself, the impasse apparently can be broken only by court order. Jaworski plans to proceed with the Watergate cover-up indictments, then subpoena the Nixon tapes before the trials begin. If Nixon ignores the subpoenas or challenges them in court, another legal battle would follow-a fight similar to two that former Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox had won before Nixon fired him. Some of the White House evidence sought by Jaworski also relates to Nixon's former team of secret investigators ("the plumbers") and his dealings with milk producers, who contributed large sums...