Word: caseys
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CONGRESSIONAL, statute requires the CIA "to keep the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities..." But CIA chief William Casey and ranking Senator on the Intelligence Committee Barry Goldwater (D-Ariz) seem recently to have taken this to mean a game of twenty questions, in which the listener. If he prefers not to know the answer, doesn't ask the right questions...
...late February and then until March 8, when the issue of the minings was somehow passed over. When Goldwater recently discovered what it seems the House knew ever since January that CIA agents were mining the harbors, not American-backed Contras--he wrote a letter to CIA chief William Casey saying that he, Goldwater, was "pissed off" that he hadn't been informed...
...rules set for it. But strangest of all, don't the House and Senate intelligence committees share information? It seems patently ludicrous that Senator Goldwater should not have known something about the mining if the House knew about it already. And above it all the horrible sphinx, William J. Casey, sits grinning: "I don't have to answer questions I'm not asked...
...Director William Casey was charged with misleading investors about a company he worked with...
Weinberger and Casey were the last to arrive. Each member of the crisis team in ,his turn gave the newcomers a report on his activities. Weinberger seemed somewhat selfconscious. Perhaps he was embarrassed by his late arrival. Abruptly, he said, "I have raised the alert status of our forces...