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...incurious, if not downright obtuse, investigator who failed to keep notes of crucial interviews with key players in the scandal or follow up on hints that laws might have been broken. In amiable tones, he told of how on Nov. 23 he confronted National Security Council Aide Lieut. Colonel Oliver North with a memorandum describing the diversion to Nicaraguan rebels of profits from Iranian arms sales. He did not ask North if the President had approved...
Meese did not seal North's office or secure any of the colonel's documents until four days after the memo was found because, he testified, there was still "no obvious criminality" involved. Alerted by his conversation with the Attorney General, North returned to his office that night for a shredding session that lasted from 11 p.m. to 4:15 a.m. Responding to questions about his lackadaisical dealings with North, Meese blithely maintained that the papers North destroyed were probably "irrelevant...
Your cover story conveyed the spirit of that most unusual week in which Lieut. Colonel Oliver North appeared at the Iran-contra hearings ((NATION, July 20)). Along with many others, I was converted to North's side by the end of the first day. I realize I may be overlooking the issues, but for me it was a relief to cheer for this charismatic all-American Marine in his struggle against a fickle, vacillating, unpredictable Congress...
...Colonel North has broken the law, and has openly defended lying to Congress to conceal his illegal acts. He committed his crimes in support of a bad lot of men who engage in widespread rape, murder, and torture. What other "real Americans" may we look forward to viewing in the Harvard Coop windows? Charles Whitman? Richard Speck? Ed Gein? Perhaps Charles Manson...
...praised the president for his "totalcooperation" with the inquiry and said "the onlyU.S. officials who knew of the diversion wereAdmiral Poindexter, Colonel North and possiblyDirector Casey." William L. Casey, the director ofthe CIA, died...