
Richard Ben-Veniste and William Cohen on the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in
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How Did the Investigations in the Impeachment Proceedings Work?
There was no coordination between us as the special prosecutor took over on the federal investigation side with the senate mittee. In fact, archibald cox was upset that john dene was granted immunity by the senate. But we managed to prosecute him anyway. And so a each of the institutions you've mentioned played an important role. Once we had the tapes, essentially the matter was sealed because no one could get away from their tape recorded conversations showing their culpability in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice.
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