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...DICK THORNBURGH, THE top-ranking American official in the U.N. Secretariat, wrapped up a year of service with a blast at the "deadwood, featherbedding, fraud and abuse" that permeate the world body. The departing Under Secretary- General for Management pulled no punches, charging that some vital agencies have become "patronage dumping grounds" and that the budgeting process is "almost surreal." Further angering Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali by going public with his mince-no-words report and then repeating his charges before a U.S. congressional committee, Thornburgh, a former Attorney General, warns that antireform forces are defeating efforts to make...
...Thornburgh called for an independent inspector general to stanch millions of dollars of waste generated annually by the U.N. Even then it won't be easy to cut through 48 years of padding...
...roll back civil rights gains, crack down on criminal defendants and the rights, they had been awarded by the courts, attack pornographers, curb abortion rights, and slow down enforcement of environmental laws. That agenda, with some refinements, remained in place through the administrations of Meese's successors, Dick Thornburgh and William Barr...
Donald Ayer, who served eight years in the department, believes that of the three men, Thornburgh did the most damage. "Meese pushed ideological positions beyond what the law supports," says Ayer, who served as Deputy Solicitor General under Meese and Deputy Attorney General under Thornburgh. But it was Thornburgh, he adds, who created "an employment philosophy that places personal loyalty and partisanship ahead of either competence or integrity." Ayer says he resigned from the department in 1990 "because of my disagreement with Thornburgh's handling of some ethical problems...
...Thornburgh added to the perception of prosecutorial impunity in 1989, when he declared that Justice lawyers were not subject to disciplinary action by state bar associations. Federal judges were furious. "Recent history suggests that the Department of Justice is not at all conscientious about disciplining those department attorneys who engage in misconduct," wrote U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel in a 1991 opinion...