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Later during the meeting Ehrlichman suggests that the President summon Mitchell to the Oval Office "as the provable wrongdoer" and tell him: "My God, I've got a report here. And it's clear from this report that you are guilty as hell. Now, John, for [expletive deleted] sake go on in there and do what you should. And let's get this thing cleared up and get it off the country's back and move on." Haldeman is enthusiastic about that scenario. "That's the only way to beat it now," he says. By then Nixon is in agreement...
Such grants of immunity raise embarrassing moral questions, since they permit a wrongdoer to escape punishment by the simple expedient of informing on his associates. Yet legal authorities have traditionally accepted the pragmatic necessity of letting one possible criminal go free in order to catch and convict others, and the idea was formally put into law by the British Parliament in 1710. In the U.S., immunity was often granted unofficially or by various local laws, and the Supreme Court in 1896 gave its first complete approval to a federal immunity statute. The underlying legal theory is that when a witness...
...ienis' brainchild is a specially gifted unit dubbed TARP (for Test And Repair Processor). Like a zealous office manager always peering over the shoulders of his clerks, TARP can almost instantly spot errors, determine who has made them, and take steps to discipline or replace the wrongdoer. It constantly monitors the specially coded messages -or interoffice memos, as Avižienis calls them-that pass between the units, and immediately reacts to deviations from normal in the computer chatter. "It's as if a person were to start mispronouncing or slurring words," explains Avižienis. "Illness...
Muskie said that Republican leaders "imply that Democratic candidates . . . actually favor violence and champion the wrongdoer...
What the controversy over crime and punishment tends to overlook is that the Bill of Rights must protect everyone-the unsavory as well as the savory-or it protects no one. The goal of judicial reform should be a system that genuinely safeguards the rights of the accused wrongdoer, yet effectively upholds the innocent citizen's right to be protected from the criminal. If it can achieve both these objectives, the revolution in criminal justice will have been well fought...