Investigators' Leads File: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, to Make Inquiry as to the Authority of the Civil Service Commission to Compile and to Expand Federal Funds, to Compile and Maintain an Investigators' Leads File Containing Facts, Rumor, and Gossip Bearing Upon the Views, Opinions, and Acts of Individuals who Were Neither Federal Employees Nor Applicants for Positions Coming Under the Jurisdiction of the Civil Service Commission. Also to Learn for what Purpose the File was to be Used. Oct. 3, 6, and 7, 1947 |
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Seite 30 - ... it is essential to the due administration of the government that the boundaries fixed by the constitution between the different departments should be preserved; a just regard to the constitution, and to the duty of my office, under all the circumstances of this case, forbid a compliance with your request.
Seite 31 - We had better at the outstart recognize the fact that the executive department is a coordinate branch of the Government, with power to judge what should or should not be done, within its own department, and what of its own doings and communications should or should not be kept secret, and that with it, in the exercise of these constitutional powers, the courts have no more right to interfere than has the Executive, under like conditions, to interfere with the courts.
Seite 29 - This discretion in the executive branch has been upheld and respected by the judiciary. The courts have repeatedly held that they will not and cannot require the executive to produce such papers when in the opinion of the executive their production is contrary to the public interests. The courts have also held that the question whether the production of the papers would be against the...
Seite 29 - It is the position of this Department, restated now with the approval of and at the direction of the President. that all investigative reports are confidential documents of the executive department of the Government. to aid in the duty laid upon the President by the Constitution to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," and that congressional or public access to them would not be in the public interest.
Seite 31 - American system of written constitutional law, that all the powers intrusted to government, whether state or national, are divided into the three grand departments, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. That the functions appropriate to each of these branches of government shall be vested in a separate body of public servants, and that the perfection of the system requires that the lines which separate and divide these departments shall be broadly and clearly denned.
Seite 31 - It is believed to be one of the chief merits of the American system of written constitutional law that all the powers intrusted to government, whether State or National, are divided into the three grand departments, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. That the functions appropriate to each of these branches of government shall be vested in a separate...
Seite 32 - I have no doubt that this pledge would be kept and that you would weigh every consideration before making any matter public. Unfortunately, however, a policy cannot be made anew because of personal confidence of the Attorney General in the integrity and good faith of a particular committee chairman.
Seite 30 - As you probably know, much of this information is given in confidence and can only be obtained upon pledge not to disclose its sources. A disclosure of the sources would...
Seite 29 - take care that the laws be faithfully executed," and that congressional or public access to them would not be in the public interest. Disclosure of the reports could not do otherwise than seriously prejudice law enforcement. Counsel for a defendant or prospective defendant, could have no greater help than to know how much or how little information the Government has, and what witnesses or sources of information it can rely upon. This is exactly what these reports are intended to contain.
Seite 30 - Senate in response to its resolution, reports made to the Attorney General by his associates regarding violations of law by the Standard Oil Co. "Letter of Attorney General Gregory to the President of the Senate, dated February 23, 1915, declining to comply with a resolution of the Senate requesting the Attorney General to report to the Senate his findings and conclusions in the investigation of the smelting industry. "Letter of Attorney General Sargent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,...