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...After all, Powell is not averse to pressing the emotional buttons that attach to his "noble outsider" appeal, moves that reveal important clues as to how he made his way in the corridors of power. Questioned about his role as a top aide to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger during the Iran-Contra scandal - in which capacity he'd helped facilitate the CIA's acquisition of a shipment of missiles to be sent to Iran to help secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon - Powell replied, "I was his faithful Indian companion." What's most notable here is less...
Residents of the apartment building--which is a home for people who have been through a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program run by CASPAR, Inc.--said they had seen the supposed landlord showing the room, but hadn't realized the scheme was occurring...
Dave Wilson, director of men's recovery for CASPAR, confirmed that the supposed landlord had lived in the building and departed hastily. An apartment in the building is still listed under the supposed landlord's name...
...There was a person that moved out of the apartment the day that this all happened," said Wilson. He said that CASPAR does run background checks on all potential residents of the home, and instances of law-breaking are rare...
...expensive but dubious weapons programs he had supported in Congress. He canceled the Navy's $57 billion A-12 attack jet, a move that stunned the weapons industry, and denounced the Pentagon procurement chiefs in public for lying about weapons costs, a problem that Reagan's Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, would never so much as acknowledge. On arms control, however, Cheney, a skeptic again, dug in his heels. In his memoirs, Baker says Cheney argued so consistently in early 1990 that the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe was a bad idea that eventually Bush had to say, "I want...