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...Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities added pungent details about the pressures to help smother the scandal. Depositions given by John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman dug more deeply into the planning of Watergate and the coverup. White House memos described efforts to set up an illegal security apparatus in 1970. CIA memos under mined the President's Watergate defense by showing that politics, far more than national security, motivated the White House attempt to sidetrack the investigation. As the scandal has unfolded, the Nixon team has disintegrated. Now out of work and in danger of indictment, each...
...security organization for most of the 19th century. Until 1893 the Justice Department relied on private detectives for its investigations; before World War I, the U.S. had only two Army intelligence officers and no professional counterespionage agency. But the nation emerged from the war with an embryonic surveillance apparatus as well as new espionage and sedition acts. Under these laws, 3,000,000 loyalty investigations were conducted by the American Protective League, an organization of 200,000 civilian vigilantes, which the Justice Department officially sanctioned; 6,000 enemy aliens were interned and 2,500 indictments were handed down...
...large extent, the hydra-like growth of the internal-security apparatus in the U.S. was a result of the wide latitude given the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and other organizations during the height of the cold war. Much has been written about the "secret governments," but less has been said about the easy transfer of espionage techniques from the cold war abroad to the home front. Overseas operations-including even the disruption of lawful governments and a wide repertory of other "dirty tricks"-were perceived as necessary in the worldwide contest posed by aggressive Communism. When...
...include the personal and political aims of the party in power-but set up on its own a White House security agency that was neither established by law nor responsible to the Congress. Why did the Administration feel it necessary to form the President's own extralegal security apparatus...
...result will be a curtailment of their activities and of White House control. Balancing the priorities of individual liberties and national security has always posed a problem for free nations, but the Watergate scandal suggests the scale is now out of tilt. Indeed, the entire internal and external security apparatus of the United States seems due for review...