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- NATION, Page 31American NotesJUSTICEThe Last Word On Meese
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- 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."