European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                12 the stars and stripes William Safire june 1977 theres rough politics in Justice department political mane vering inside the Justice department is getting saddened professionals sketch this out line attorney general Griffin Bell is obsessed with what lawsuits might follow him into private the recent indict ment of an Fri official makes lawmen More vulnerable to civil and Bell has trumped to aides More than once my Law partners Are not going to be Happy with me being deposed All the the attorney general is thinking of making this threat to Congress unless legislative guidelines Are drawn to show what crime prevention is Perissi he will not permit Fri agents to take any action until after the commission of a the Deputy attorney general would move into the policymaking area deserted by a top Man too Busy with protecting his but Pittsburgh pol Peter Flaherty has problems of his own in promoting the easy fraud voting he told the Senate he had never seen a memo from Justice department professionals showing How someday registration was an invitation to several staffers saw that memo on his and Flaherty is aware that a previous Justice official was prosecuted for deliberately deceiving the lie is now totally into this vacuum has rushed vice presi Dent who set up an and hoc com Mittee of four Lik minded prosecutors to direct Justice department they Are Henry Charles Henry Engin and Charles this group developed the laudable jus Tice department position on warrant less but could not resist acting like Liberal democrats in ignoring the Opin Ion of professional lawmen on easy fraud voter till is nut Happy with the takeover of department policy by Mondale rant of four his legislative and civil division Patricia Wald and Barbara Han Are not adept at defending their bureaucratic which leaves criminal division chief Benjamin Civiletti to be the heavyweight at Justice the Baltimore fundraiser for sen Paul Sarbanes who was put in place by Carter intimate Charles is at least a Tough minded lawyer with much courtroom Bell Hopes that he will Lake charge of the tar baby of Intelli gence Ncncy the Justice department has gone in two directions on the Cia was Given to the criminal and no indictments were handed up on Richard Helms and James Angleton out the Fri was Given the civil rights which went ahead and indicted its first thai double Standard is so patently unjust that Civiletti will soon have to decide whether to go easy on the Fri or to crack Down As the Mondale faction wants on the with the criminal division chief spread so what happens to the snails Pace giant jury investigating the Corrati Peiji of by the korean lohbvisu1 my myrtes insist the  to Dubhe integrity Section chief turn Hender is the result of professional ineptitude and Poi ical Hie informal Mondale group is curiously Neutral about the House corruption invest the Senate select intelligence com on which Mondale served so somehow failed to discover the Cias knowledge of the Koclas bribery of con and the special prosecution Force headed by Ruth and Ruff has assiduously looked the other this dismay the professionals Down the line at who Are embarrassed at having to gather evidence by clipping the reports of Richard Lla Loran of the new York or hearing through the grape Vine that the House ethics committee is learning that Edwin Edwards of Loui Siana has just implicated his former staff congressman John it gets More pm harassing As the ethics committee finally asks its own members and the rest of the House to state what Lar Gesse they have received from foreign gov if counsel Philip Lacovara cannot gel at least he ought to Stop lending Nis name to what would then be a blatant when the Long overdue first step is some of the gaping holes in the lackadaisical Justice department investigation will appear Justice politicians Hill be put on the spot will the department then demand that the Cia cough up the dance of congressional bribery gathered by  meat the professionals Are right to be there May be or May not be a rough jus Tice to but in this there is surely rough politics in co him Yort William Buckley 1 question Are they Good men Thurk was More Wisdom and realism in a few paragraphs in time Magazine than in the collected of Ora of president James Carter on the subject of human the news Story essay was written by Kalph former managing editor of life after a tour in the pacify like so Marty is concerned to define the Correct relation ship Between die United Stales govern ment and Asiatic countries that arc ii and 2i unfree he visited in snut and the Philip and from his visits with the Strong men of those three countries there is much to be above the distinction thai needs con stantly to be observed is Between political the Cip rested in 1 this re Prem of 11 fax a Mapes of the United Freedom and of her freedoms we in our to use a word democracy As a rough substitute for civic virtue someone More patient than i waded through John do ways democracy and education and collected 29 different uses of the word democracy in that volume the Point to remember was Best phrased by or who wrote the end of political Freedom is personal free the principal purpose of the Vole is to resist effectively those who seek to impose upon you on the other societies can enjoy subs Lancial freedoms even where no Politi Cal Freedom exists to say Hal Freedom is indefeasible thai a Sci ctr is lot ally free or else not free All is regularly listed fur ii stance the b Prem legit Carter pm in Man Isle of Souli in Fliche is Lupin in if thurld where a Esperti Chen Tracy really works trial is More nearly True than Nam went on to tire government in a developing country mass give Al though that is a dangerous it is once More nearly True than false Iri certain circumstances democracy will not work unless the minority is prepared to yield authority to the and democracy is unsatisfactory if the min tiry is deprived of Basic what As the strives simultaneously to encourage economic growth and along with human Freedom Are we to do the most intelligent commentary Here was by Lee Kuan prime minister of in times it is Lees Contention that the direction of a so especially a developing to More relevant than its ability to meet some i realistically High Western he sums it up this Way you should ask whether a country is trying to move toward a More tolerant society where the mid Vidigal has or toward a More repressive society where the individual is subservient to the it cannot be better our critical rhetoric should sharply distinguish Between political rights which Are a luxury of self disciplined arid human rights which Are a metaphysical Patrimony the president of the philippic is in Many respects in Trail in no political Freedom in tin yet there is viol Aglet ult a Zilph craves and foreign businessmen tha him slim Law Ine country was on the verge of and he Marcus it is easier to run a revolution than a one needs to ask a question that strikes one As extraordinarily but it is the hardest of them All Are we Deal ing with Good men when asked whether Cie neral Videla was leading Argentina to the Nghil Jorge Luis Borges an swered he is a is a Marcoss powerful wife said to you will never get another Friend in Asia like we both grew up saying the pledge of Alle Giance to the american Flag in school but Marcos is a dont ask him to be an