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...relations offensive that Robert Dole, the Republican Senator from Kansas, dubbed Comeback Week. Reagan's first important move was to accept the withdrawal of Robert Gates' nomination to become director of Central Intelligence. As the CIA's deputy director and a close ally of his disabled former boss, William Casey, Gates had come under fire for his involvement in Iranscam, and his chances for Senate confirmation were looking dim. In Gates' place Reagan nominated FBI Director William Webster, a former judge who is widely respected for his integrity. By selecting Webster, the President won the same bipartisan kudos...
...presidential commission so sharply criticized its creator. The 288-page report of the President's Special Review Board on the Iran-contra affair describes an incredibly inattentive Ronald Reagan, a hear-no-evil Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, a devious former CIA Director William Casey, and a Chief of Staff Don Regan whose proclaimed mastery of spin control failed miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these officials floundered, Oliver North, with the approval of his boss on the National Security Council staff, John Poindexter, showed a reckless disdain for the laws...
While the impulsive North freewheeled the Iran venture, he kept only Poindexter "fully informed" and made Casey privy to many operational details. Shortly before McFarlane's now notorious trip to Tehran last May with a plane bearing weapons and the expectation that all American hostages would be released, North uncharacteristically suggested to Poindexter that a "quiet" meeting be held with the President, Shultz, Weinberger and Casey to review the plans. Responded Poindexter in a computer memo to North: "I don't want a meeting with RR, Shultz and Weinberger." It was not held...
...just before the diversion of funds became public, Casey and Poindexter briefed congressional intelligence committees but "did not fully relate the nature of events as they had occurred." This produced an "understandable perception," said the board all too softly, "that they were not forthcoming." More ominously, the board also expressed its concern that notes presumably made by Poindexter, the official notetaker at key NSC meetings, "appear to be missing...
...apparently never explained to the President the risks if the initiative became public or the operation failed. Nor did he make clear to Reagan that North, rather than the CIA, was running the operation. "The President does not recall ever being informed of this fact," said the commission. "Indeed, Casey should have gone further and pressed for operational responsibility to be transferred to the CIA. Because congressional restrictions on covert actions are both largely directed at and familiar to the CIA, Casey should have taken the lead in keeping the question of congressional notification active." Casey may also have...