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...their own previous misgivings about the contra campaign, the press stories were the last straw. Many lawmakers sounded almost as outraged by what they contended was an Administration failure to inform them as they were offended by the policy. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Goldwater in his angry letter to Casey specifically accused the CIA director of failing to give the committee "the information we were entitled to receive; particularly, if my memory serves me correctly, when you briefed us on Central America just a couple of weeks...
...fact, members of the House Intelligence Committee say Casey told them about the CIA involvement as far back...
January, and Goldwater's memory of the Senate briefings was imperfect. Casey last week read back to the Senate Intelligence Committee remarks he had made about the mining that are contained in transcripts of briefings from March 8 and 13. That certainly did not end the dispute. Since the briefings were secret, the transcripts were also, so there was no way to check exactly what Casey said. The recollections of Senators who attended the briefings differ so sharply that they might be describing different meetings...
Republican Senator Wallop says that Casey supplied "all sufficient details for anybody to draw correct conclusions." He charges that some of his colleagues are expressing outrage now to hide their embarrassment at failing to appreciate the significance of Casey's testimony and to ask the CIA director probing questions...
...Democrat on the committee, on the other hand, asserts that "Casey did mention mining but in the midst of a list of other actions the contras were taking. At no time did he say the CIA was directly involved in mining or that President Reagan had authorized it." New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan is pedantically precise. Says he: "The reference on March 8 consisted of one sentence of 27 words, and the word mines appeared once. On March 13, there was another sentence of 26 words and the word mines appeared once. We are not meant to pick...