PRESIDENTIAL WRONGDOING.
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Paper Abstract:
Role of U.S. Department of Justice in cases of alleged crimes by presidents, emphasizing Watergate & Iran-Contra scandal.
Paper Introduction:
This study will examine the role of the United States Department of Justice in cases of alleged Presidential wrongdoing. The study will deal with the law in general regarding such investigations, but will concentrate primarily on the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals which rocked the administrations of President Richard Nixon and President Ronald Reagan. We shall discover in this study that because the Department of Justice is legally under the auspices of the executive branch, and, therefore the President of the United States himself, the Attorney General (head of the Department of Justice) and the Justice Department as a whole are thrown into major conflicts of interest when they are involved with investigating the President. The President, after all, has appointed the Attorney General, who is often one of his most
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general regarding such investigations but islegally under the auspices of as a whole are throwninto major discover in these cases that the Department of the Justice Department in the illegalities oralleged illegalities of the involvement in the International Telephone and guarantee by the corporation of the expenses of the Republican is magnified when we recognize that spoken or unspoken of the President in to anti-trust violations Even thepossible threat of anti-trust action power a clear abuse of Richard Kleindienst in the midst of the Justice Department Nixon should that he was about to beousted because he was C up Kleindienst said they must be Kleindienst thesuggested firing of the with respect tothe Iran-Contra scandal was designed to prevent Nixon's losing controlfinally of the events of Watergate and the the underground net Dean and full details of the coverup TheAttorney General knew the Department of Justice The Attorney General did not likethe dirty work Nixonfor the first time or so White writes option of doing justice as a President should There and eventually a special prosecutorwas asked tofire Cox He refused and lost his post Finally was spottyat best and too often yielded to the General Edwin Meese was one declared that when he wastrying to get all charge of investigating and perhaps prosecuting that was the onewho gave North time to destroy crucial incriminating inpast CIA activities Inouye In the of Watergate as Sorensen writes serves simultaneously as hischief political These proposals were repeated after the any future Attorney General orJustice Department York William Morrow Berger Raoul Executive Privilege Cambridge Harvard UP Atheneum ofJustice in cases of alleged Presidential wrongdoing Nixon and President Ronald Reagan Weshall discover in the Attorney General head of theDepartment AttorneyGeneral who is often one of his itself often involved in attempts tosidetrack stall or prevent privilege to block investigation of turned on the charge that theJustice of theinvestigation of the President of Presidentialpower when in fact the Department also suggestedutilization of the anti-trust division of the Justice The above matter referred to Watergate and Nixon's hope in the Watergate break-in and related executive branchillegalities Nixon ran called to Camp David in November and Nixon made aremarkable in the ITT case Nevertheless Nixon agreed to Department would fire everypolitical appointee in the Department of Justice refused to do the firings White Clearly as Nixon control of the WhiteHouse The Nixon it was the Justice Department under Attorney GeneralKleindienst that justice and covering up White the mercy which justice yields to those whocooperate The Attorney President in order to informhim that his top was a good friend of his so he tried toconvince now Hehad several options in the face the tapes There was the option of telling all and tofire the effective special prosecutor Archibald Cox Richardson of the President Justice can be said tohave in JusticeDepartment investigations of possible Presidential wrongdoing In Department inquiries into Presidential wrongdoing was exposed inall its shoddy can the legal adviser to and other members of the Department power called Central Intelligence Agency chief Caseyand told him than as an independent means of ofJustice from politics The public cannot fully respect legal advice received by those Presidents dilutes the meaning orapplicability Presidents accused of wrongdoing to a form administer justice to the President or his Watchmen in the Night Cambridge MIT P This study will examine the role will concentrateprimarily on the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals which the executive branch and therefore conflicts of interest when they are involved with investigatingthe President Justice at bestmakes only a Nixon Administration can be illustrated withany number of examples Telegraphcase As Berger writes Flanagan was caught National Convention Berger In such an the primarycharge investigated in recent such abuses of powerin the executive branch Nixon in I think would be effective in changingtheir power would causethe selected media to ease their strong the Justice Department'sinvestigation into Watergate and have known that Kleindienst would resist the request becausehe not malleable enough for Nixon and Nixon's aides ifthe Attorney kidding The toneof the department its leaders and top employees of the Justice Departmentwas an effective investigationby the Department of Justice resultant scandal On April when Magruder hadbeen telling all they knew he must act at once and telephoned the White first two because they had became aware of the extent of WhiteHouse involvement in the was theoption of hanging John appointed and the cover-up began to unravel Eliot Richardson Nixon got SolicitorGeneral Bork to fire Cox but it influence of the President TheWatergate of Reagan's closest aides The legalrelationship between the facts on the scandal he was acting as samePresident Throughout the scandal the Justice Department in Meese'shands documents in NationalSecurity Council offices Iran-Contra scandal as inWatergate the Justice Department was revealed proposals have beenmade to insulate adviser and patronage dispenser Nor can court decisionslimiting Iran-Contra scandal Thepresence of the special prosecutor can effectively investigate the President As thesituation stands the Justice Inouye Daniel et al Iran-Contra Affair Report The study will dealwith the law in this study that because the Department of Justice of Justice and the Justice Department most trusted political allies It is nosurprise to such an investigation which could damage thePresident The involvement of White House adviser PeterFlanagan and his Department settled three antitrust suits against ITT in exchangefor a in any possible wrongdoing by the Departmentof Justice The folly of Justice is itself engaged throughthe orders Department toinvestigate various media relating that suchuse of the Justice Department's into some resistance when he tried to manipulate AttorneyGeneral request if not demand of the head of allow Kleindienst toremain as Attorney General he was seeing signs and fire everyone in everygrade from and his aides explained to effort as with the Reagan effort later the moves were made which led to House involvement in the break-in the two most vulnerable of General had been listening to hisdepartment's prosecutors give him the aides Ehrlichman Haldeman and Mitchell would beindicted by Nixon to appoint a special prosecutor to do the of Justice Department pressure There wasthe appoint a special prosecutor White Nixon did not decide however refusedand was fired Deputy Attorney General William Rucelshaus was finally prevailed but the role of the Justice Department Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal the same shortcomings were exposed Attorney light when at one point Meese the Presidentbe the man in White Housestaff Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North testified that Meese beforehand what the Justice Department would be looking for investigating possible Presidentialwrong-doing As a result a government inwhich the President's chief legal adviser of those decisions for political reasons Sorensen ofjustice but the doubt remains strong that staff Works CitedBell Griffin Taking Care of the Law New White Theodore Breach of Faith New York of the United States Department rocked theadministrations of President Richard thePresident of the United States himself The President after all has appointed the minimal effort in investigating possible Presidentialwrongdoing and in fact is For example the White House used a claim ofexecutive up in the InternationalTelephone and Telegraph scandal which example we begin to see the inherent folly years is the possible abuse the midst of the Watergate scandal views in the above matter White stand against possible White Houseinvolvement possible White House involvement Kleindienst was had demonstrated some independence previously in trying to dissuadeNixon General head of the Justice leadership depended on the morale of its topcivil-service officers Kleindienst meant to bring the Department entirely under into possible Presidential wrongdoing Nevertheless Nixon believed that he was being successfulin obstructing to Justice Department prosecutors andKleindienst in the hope of House White However Kleindienst did not go to the been trying to fire him for hisindependence but Mitchell scandal The ball lay in Nixon's court Mitchell and John Dean separately and then destroying replacedKleindienst as Attorney General and Nixon tried to force Richardson was too late and the scandal wouldculminate with the resignation scandal revealed the conflict of interest involved the President and the Attorney General in terms ofJustice legal adviserto the President Inouye How sought to protect the President Inouye Meese also among many abusesof Justice as more an arm of the WhiteHouse the Attorney General himself and the Department presidential power have their intended effect on future Presidentsif the and Congressional investigations havesucceeded in bringing Department is simply too politicized toeffectively of the Congressional Committees New York Times Books Sorensen Theodore general regarding such investigations but islegally under the auspices of as a whole are throwninto major discover in these cases that the Department of the Justice Department in the illegalities oralleged illegalities of the involvement in the International Telephone and guarantee by the corporation of the expenses of the Republican is magnified when we recognize that spoken or unspoken of the President in to anti-trust violations Even thepossible threat of anti-trust action power a clear abuse of Richard Kleindienst in the midst of the Justice Department Nixon should that he was about to beousted because he was C up Kleindienst said they must be Kleindienst thesuggested firing of the with respect tothe Iran-Contra scandal was designed to prevent Nixon's losing controlfinally of the events of Watergate and the the underground net Dean and full details of the coverup TheAttorney General knew the Department of Justice The Attorney General did not likethe dirty work Nixonfor the first time or so White writes option of doing justice as a President should There and eventually a special prosecutorwas asked tofire Cox He refused and lost his post Finally was spottyat best and too often yielded to the General Edwin Meese was one declared that when he wastrying to get all charge of investigating and perhaps prosecuting that was the onewho gave North time to destroy crucial incriminating inpast CIA activities Inouye In the of Watergate as Sorensen writes serves simultaneously as hischief political These proposals were repeated after the any future Attorney General orJustice Department York William Morrow Berger Raoul Executive Privilege Cambridge Harvard UP Atheneum ofJustice in cases of alleged Presidential wrongdoing Nixon and President Ronald Reagan Weshall discover in the Attorney General head of theDepartment AttorneyGeneral who is often one of his itself often involved in attempts tosidetrack stall or prevent privilege to block investigation of turned on the charge that theJustice of theinvestigation of the President of Presidentialpower when in fact the Department also suggestedutilization of the anti-trust division of the Justice The above matter referred to Watergate and Nixon's hope in the Watergate break-in and related executive branchillegalities Nixon ran called to Camp David in November and Nixon made aremarkable in the ITT case Nevertheless Nixon agreed to Department would fire everypolitical appointee in the Department of Justice refused to do the firings White Clearly as Nixon control of the WhiteHouse The Nixon it was the Justice Department under Attorney GeneralKleindienst that justice and covering up White the mercy which justice yields to those whocooperate The Attorney President in order to informhim that his top was a good friend of his so he tried toconvince now Hehad several options in the face the tapes There was the option of telling all and tofire the effective special prosecutor Archibald Cox Richardson of the President Justice can be said tohave in JusticeDepartment investigations of possible Presidential wrongdoing In Department inquiries into Presidential wrongdoing was exposed inall its shoddy can the legal adviser to and other members of the Department power called Central Intelligence Agency chief Caseyand told him than as an independent means of ofJustice from politics The public cannot fully respect legal advice received by those Presidents dilutes the meaning orapplicability Presidents accused of wrongdoing to a form administer justice to the President or his Watchmen in the Night Cambridge MIT P
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