Word: watchdogging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most innovative feature of Ford's program is the creation of a separate Intelligence Oversight Board that will act as a citizens' watchdog. With access to information about all the agencies' operations, the three-man board can recommend departmental sanctions or criminal prosecution by the Attorney General against anyone who abuses his authority. The staffs of the inspector general in each agency will be increased to help with the monitoring. Ford chose three board members of moderate to conservative views: Robert Murphy, 81, a distinguished career diplomat who in 1959 was Under Secretary of State for political...
...anti-TM alliance represents various interests: Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a nonsectarian watchdog on First Amendment issues; the Berkeley (Calif.) Christian Coalition, a group that grew out of the Jesus Movement and does research to combat TM, Scientology and other new cults; and a number of Protestant and Catholic taxpayers in New Jersey...
...sample of the fraud is evident in Illinois, where the subcommittee staff estimates that one dollar out of every six spent by the Public Aid Department on health care is illegally siphoned off. Working with investigators from Chicago's Better Government Association, a citizens' watchdog agency, the subcommittee last December set up a clinic near ghetto areas on the city's North Side. To all appearances, the operation was indistinguishable from other "Medicaid mills" that have been hastily assembled to provide treatment for Chicago's poor and to collect payments from the federal and state governments...
Immediately, problems surfaced in the form of the "Berlin Wall," an insurmountable barrier to communication with the President guarded by the ferocious watchdog team of John Ehrlichmann and H.R. Haldeman, whom Mollenhoff characterized as "inexperienced meddlers pulling political levers." Mollenhoff's unsuccessful early attempts to gain access to the Oval Office foreshadowed his later inability to implement any real reforms within the executive branch. "I had an opportunity from the first to view the real problems: excessive secrecy and an extreme political motivation that dominated their thinking," Mollenhoff said. These obsessions and the Nixon team's unshakeable belief in executive...
...According to the court, Congress may not appoint a body with enforcement powers; only the Executive can set up such a commission. A number of Senators, including Edward Kennedy, quickly said that they would introduce bills this week to conform to the ruling and preserve the commission's watchdog status over campaign spending...