Word: bossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important witness the Iran-contra committees hear? No, not Oliver North -- at least not according to Warren Rudman, vice chairman of the Senate panel. After listening to North for four days last week, the New Hampshire Republican repeated a longstanding prediction: the crucial witness will be Ollie's old boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who follows North to the stand this week...
Knocking down his previous story that he had been on such chummy terms with the President as to joke with him about the delicious irony of sending the Ayatullah's money to the contras, the Marine placed a proper bureaucratic distance between himself and the top boss. (This wisecrack, North conceded, had been uttered out of the President's hearing as he and his superior, National Security Adviser John Poindexter, left a White House meeting.) North said he had never even discussed his far-flung secret operations one-on-one with the President. But, he insisted, "I assumed that...
...accusatory glare of global publicity like a pinned butterfly, she has faced her congressional inquisitors with poise and outlined her activities and opinions with candor, dignity and grace under the pressure of probing examination and political pettifogging. She offers no excuses for her absolute loyalty to her boss or for having provided her unquestioning support in pursuit of his operational goals. Fawn Hall has stolen the Iran-contra show...
Richard Kusserow is a new kind of gumshoe. He is the master datatective of the Reagan Administration. Soon after becoming inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services in 1981, Kusserow decided to crack down on fraud. The new boss directed that the agency's mammoth IBM computer system be used to compare a list of everyone on the Social Security rolls with a compilation of every Medicare recipient known to have died. The project uncovered 8,000 dead people to whom Social Security checks were still being mailed, like clockwork, once a month. In some cases...
North's surprising maneuver left committee members angered and baffled about the Marine's underlying purpose. Did he hope to put off testifying until he had the advantage of knowing what would be said by his former boss, ex- National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who is due up as a witness early next month? Or could North's testimony be so explosive that he would not risk exposing it to a leak from the private sessions? Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh is not expected to start legal action against North before his congressional appearance. Could the refusal to testify...