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Despite a multitude of complex legal arguments Dr. Peters takes his stand on one main ground--that the government security set-up, by dismissing him for possible disloyalty without a chance to confront and cross-examine his accusers, denied him due process and violated his Constitutional rights. Both the Fifth and the Sixth Amendments to the Constitution are thus involved in the case. The specific right to confront accusers is guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment only in "criminal prosecutions." The courts have interpreted this phrase however, to mean that wherever "punitive action" against an individual is involved, the full safeguards...
...perjury on what it later admitted were false grounds. The general faults of the security program have included its vague definition of a "security risk", its failure to provide legal officers at hearings, its lack of any machinery for appeals, and its refusal to let the accused employee confront his accuser...
...Natvig, and Lowell Watson, three former $25-a-day witnesses for the Justice Department who now admit that they lied in their incriminating testimony against suspected Communists. Is it this same type of witness, one wonders, that the Department is shielding when it refuses to let an accused employee confront his accuser...
...Justice Department recently stated that its information sources would "dry up" if all accused employees could confront their accusers. Without some enlightened body like the Government Security Commission, however, the Government may soon find that its sources of able civil servants have dried up instead...
...analogy, currently popular in military circles, goes back to the nation's frontier days. Two men, their faces twisted in hatred and fear, confront each other across a card table. Each holds a revolver within inches of the other's breast, pointed unwaveringly at the heart. There they sit, each with the sure power to cause instant death, yet afraid to squeeze the trigger. For the one who shoots first will himself be killed-by the reflex action of a dying...