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Nixon, Reagan Ordered Spying on Rehnquist Witnesses
And finally, newly-released FBI documents reveal both the Nixon and Reagan administrations ordered the monitoring of witnesses set to provide critical testimony about former Chief Justice William Rehnquist. In 1971, the Nixon White House ordered the FBI to run background checks on witnesses in Renquist’s initial Senate confirmation hearing. When Renquist was nominated to chief justice fifteen years later, the Reagan administration told the FBI to check on the witnesses and find out what they planned to say. The FBI obtained the names from then-assistant attorney general John Bolton.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/04/155257
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1167818524831
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6722187
So Nixon and Reagan used the FBI for political purposes. Is that legal?
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