Word: christic
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News of the Committee was likely leaked byMack's former lawyer Daniel P. Sheehan, who actsas legal counsel for the Christic Institute, aWashington public-interest law firm...
...government officials have been engaged in a far-ranging plot to prevent an honest investigation into whether American POWS are still being held in Vietnam, for fear it would expose drug-smuggling operations they conducted to finance a secret war in Laos. Perot may have got that idea from Christic Institute, a leftish public-interest law firm that filed a suit making similar charges (the suit was dismissed in 1988 by a federal judge in Miami, who forced Christic to pay $1 million in court costs as damages for making frivolous charges). The generally conservative Perot and the left- leaning...
...Assistant Secretary of Defense, now a State Department official. In 1986 Perot called on both Vice President Bush and President Reagan to urge them to fire Armitage. Just what Armitage did to arouse the Texan's wrath, other than blocking Perot, is not clear. He was named in the Christic suit but produced a factual refutation of several charges; among other things, he proved that he was in Washington at a time when Christic and Perot said he was in Bangkok arranging drug smuggling. Armitage did once have a Vietnamese mistress and years later used Pentagon stationery to write...
...United States planned and instigated the Persian Gulf Crisis, Christic Institute President Daniel Sheehan said in a panel Wednesday at the Kennedy School of Government...