Word: caseys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where that policy is leading, the Senate passed by a landslide vote of 84 to 12 a nonbinding resolution demanding that no U.S. money be used to mine Nicaraguan waters. Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater voiced his colleagues' anger and dismay in an astonishingly pungent letter to CIA Director William Casey. Said Mr. Conservative: "I am pissed off ... The President has asked us to back his foreign policy. Bill, how can we back his foreign policy when we don't know what the hell he is doing? Lebanon, yes, we all knew that he sent troops over there. But mine...
...about its motives and strategy that have spread far beyond Congress. Just as the Senate was preparing to vote on the antimining resolution, the White House felt obliged to issue an extraordinary statement in the names of Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, CIA Director Casey and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. Said they: "We state emphatically that we have not considered, nor have we developed, plans to use U.S. military forces to invade Nicaragua or any other Central American country." They were responding to press accounts that the Administration had drawn up contingency plans...
...Shultz-Weinberger-Casey-McFarlane statement gave a strong hint of Ronald Reagan's probable response. "The real issues," it said, "are whether we in the United States want to stand by and let a Communist government in Nicaragua export violence and terrorism in this hemisphere...
...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...