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Executive Vice Presidents: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., Robert L. Miller...
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR FINDS HIMSELF presiding over a Department of Justice beset from every quarter. Dragged early in the week into a probe of its own FBI director for ethics violations, Barr's Justice Department must now endure the attentions of an "independent counsel," drafted by Barr to investigate the roiling dispute between his department and the CIA over whether the government obstructed the investigation of an illegal scheme to funnel $4 billion to the Iraqi regime before the invasion of Kuwait...
...Friday, after weeks of pressure over his handling of the Iraqgate affair, Barr named Frederick Lacey, 72, a formidable ex-prosecutor and federal judge from New Jersey, to serve as an in-house "independent" investigator. Still, congressional Democrats are demanding a court-appointed special prosecutor with full autonomy. Lacey insists that he would resign if Barr or the White House blocked him. (See related story on page...
Democratic Senator David Boren, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, last week called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations. In a defensive counterstrike, Attorney General William P. Barr announced that he had asked retired federal Judge Frederick B. Lacey of New Jersey to investigate the Justice Department's handling of the case against an Italian bank, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose Atlanta branch provided $4 billion in illegal loans and loan guarantees to Iraq. In the meantime the CIA continues to turn over new files, including one report that U.S. and Italian officials had accepted...
Executive Vice Presidents: Donald J. Barr, Donald M. Elliman Jr., Robert L. Miller...