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At the same time, Americans who do not bother to get government approval face little risk of prosecution, administration officials said.

"This proposal will bring long overdue consistency and fairness to New York State's Penal Law and save thousands of New Yorkers, particularly minority youth, from the unnecessary and life-altering trauma of a criminal arrest and, in some cases, prosecution," an administration official said in an e-mail.

Henry S. Ruth Jr., who helped lead the criminal prosecution of Nixon administration officials involved in covering up the Watergate break-in and kept it on track when President Richard M. Nixon fired the special prosecutor Archibald Cox, died on March 16 in Tucson.

After Dr. Lee's release, the White House, too, blamed the pressure of coverage in the media, and specifically The Times, for having propelled an overzealous prosecution by the administration's own Justice Department.

Page A16 Obituaries HENRY S. RUTH JR., 80 He helped lead the criminal prosecution of Nixon administration officials involved in covering up the Watergate break-in and kept it on track after the "Saturday Night Massacre," when President Richard M. Nixon fired the special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

Ms. Mayer pieces together detailed case histories for several prisoners, beginning with "detainee 001," the so-called American Taliban, John Walker Lindh, whose botched prosecution led the administration to decide, in Ms. Mayer's words, that "open criminal trials under the strict rules of the American legal system were not worth the risk".

Mr. Garcia, disputing criticism in some quarters that Mr. Spitzer was selected for prosecution by Republican administration officials, reiterated what he said when he announced that he would not bring charges: His office began its investigation after learning of payments made in a questionable manner by Mr. Spitzer to a bank account in the name of a front company for the prostitution ring.

Following publication of the Senate report, there have been calls for the prosecution of Bush administration officials involved in the CIA's interrogation programme.

Does it produce a record of noncompliance for later prosecution of the administration?

Beyond the prosecutions, the Obama administration has been entangled in other perplexing disputes over classified information.

We have increased gun prosecutions under my administration but we can do more.