Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the FBI's evidence against White was not sufficient to indict him at that time, Hoover spoke of three alternatives Vinson and Clark planned to present to Truman: 1) Fire White without explanation; 2) Ask him to resign without explanation; 3) Allow him to take the new post, while the Attorney General continued the investigation and the Treasury Secretary supervised the appointment of reliable men around White. Truman adopted the last alternative, but White somehow was permitted to surround himself with suspected Communists...
...Elizabeth Bentley never saw White," Schlesinger continues, "Her evidence was all hearsay. But Bentley did work directly with Silvermaster, and Ullmann. Since J. Edgar Hoover says everything she says is true, why not indict these...
...hoping to gain the tool which will permit them to prosecute cases in which they lack other types of evidence. If Congress legalizes wiretap evidence, the Justice Department will undoubtedly try to avenge its failure to prove a case against Judith Coplon or to get the grand jury to indict Harry Dexter White...
...indict cigarette smoking, and acquit the smoking of pipes and cigars? Because the cancer-causing factor apparently must be retained deep in the lungs, a condition usually found in cigarette smokers, who inhale deeply, not in pipe and cigar smokers, who seldom inhale. ¶ Why does lung cancer concentrate on men in middle life? Because the cancer-causing factor seems to be a slow-acting agent, which may need half an individual's normal life span to do its deadly work. ¶ If cigarette tar contains a cancer-causing agent, why don't all cigarette smokers get lung...
White cleared every scrap of paper out of his office, packed his goods in crates, and rode off in the truck that carried the crates. Eleven months later White was called to testify before the New York federal grand jury, which was investigating Communist infiltration. The jury did not indict him. That was 20 months before Chambers identified the pumpkin-paper memorandum in White's handwriting...