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...David L. Boren (D-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, pointedly asked Secord about a private citizen carrying out foreign policy activities, especially seeking contacts with Iranian officials...
...bicentennial year of the Constitution," Boren said. "Do you think it's appropriate that important foreign policy decisions of this country should be made by Mr. Richard Secord, private citizen, instead of by the Congress of the United States, the secretary of state and the President of the United States...
Although Gates will undoubtedly be questioned closely about Iranscam during confirmation hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week, Committee Chairman David Boren says the session will not serve "as an inquisition on the Iran affair." Says Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "People up here are willing to give ((Gates)) the benefit of the doubt. He's going to give members of Congress a comfortable rather than confrontational feeling...
Although the Senate report provides a chronology of the Iran affair, Boren ! stressed that the investigation is still incomplete. That was bound to be the case, since some of Iranscam's key players -- North, Poindexter and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, whom the panel identifies as a principal conduit of supplies to the contras -- exercised their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the report will serve as an essential point of reference for the congressional select committees investigating the scandal...
...Morine, TNC's head of land acquisitions. "We stay away from all that and get along with everybody." The organization has even extended an olive branch to developers, a group that most environmentalists consider the enemy. "We are not in conflict with developers," says TNC's new president Frank Boren, himself a former real estate executive. "We have worked with them and even lent them money...