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One feather soon fluttered across the President's desk. Justice Department documents indicated that Billy had claimed that Jimmy had shown him State Department cables about his 1978 trip to Libya, saying that he had been a fine good-will ambassador. After an embarrassingly vague White House statement claiming...
But the White House has remained its own worst enemy by raising doubts about its credibility. After White House spokesmen insisted that all details of the matter had been made public, members of the House Judiciary Committee, who have been examining Justice Department documents, reported that Billy had State Department...
The issue was not so much one of security. The cables had a low classification and contained no secret information. Such diplomatic traffic, in fact, is routinely made available to reporters and businessmen. Still, both the President and his brother challenged Lisker's account, Billy in undiplomatic terms on...
The texts of seven cables had been released earlier by the White House in an attempt to defuse the mounting controversy. The whole batch, said Powell, "would not have amounted to a hill of beans." Powell was right. In the earliest cable, Washington merely alerted the U.S. embassy in Tripoli...
"We're the nexus of an advising network," Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen says, weighing each word. "We join communication cables among advisers and share each others' information."