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- <text id=89TT0317>
- <title>
- Jan. 30, 1989: American Notes:Justice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 30, 1989 The Bush Era Begins
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- JUSTICE
- The Last Word On Meese
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- <p> The facts were not new, but the judgment stung all the same.
- Six months after Edwin Meese declared himself "completely
- vindicated" by a special prosecutor's decision not to indict
- him on charges of misconduct, the Justice Department's Office of
- Professional Responsibility last week issued a scathing report
- on the former Attorney General's ethics. Its key conclusion: if
- Meese were still in office, "disciplinary action" should be
- taken against him for "conduct which should not be tolerated of
- any government employee, especially not the Attorney General."
- Among Meese's misdeeds cited in the report: doing favors for
- chum E. Robert Wallach, who is awaiting trial for his part in
- the Wedtech scandal, and participating in decisions on companies
- in which he owned stock. To no one's surprise, Meese's lawyer
- called the report a "travesty of justice," and former boss
- Ronald Reagan deemed it "unwarranted."
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- </body></article>
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