Exam 9: Crimes by the Government

Nixon and his cohorts engaged in all of the following except:

Evaluate Watergate. What were the motivations of those involved? Identify the events that occurred as Watergate began to unravel. Discuss the various explanations for why Watergate occurred.

"Big corruption" is normalized government ________________.

Lt.Col.Oliver North, when called to testify before Congress about his activities with the NSC and Iran-Contra, came across as a persecuted ________________.

Identify and discuss some of the most egregious examples of the United States government using people as human guinea pigs.

In conducting mind control experiments, all of the following drugs or methods were employed except:

Tactics employed by the Nixon administration resembled those found in a police state. Nixon attempted to justify them based on the threat of communism.

A single company, Lockheed, managed to accomplish all of the following except:

The NSA is the most secretive federal agency.

In the Tuskegee Study, study subjects failed to receive treatment for:

Helen Keller at one time was a surveillance target of the FBI.

Nixon's imperious assault on the Constitution caused a crisis of:

Bribery of government officials, helping rebels to overthrow elected officials, and participating in revolution in other countries are outside of United States government control because the activity occurs in a foreign country.

Subjects for government medical studies included all of the following except:

During the Kennedy administration, the IRS was encouraged to target right-wing extremists.

In 1993, it was disclosed that the government had injected 18 civilians who may or may not have known of the risks with radioactive plutonium.

The Saturday Night Massacre was Nixon's firing of Justice Department personnel when they would not fire the special prosecutor.

Are there particular groups of people who were more likely to be used as human guinea pigs? Describe these vulnerable populations and why they are likely to be selected for experimentation.

A spokesperson for the Army scientific division argued that its experiments were no more dangerous than an urban bus ride demonstrated the Army's ________________ for humanity.

Justice Louis Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court said that government lawlessness was ________________.