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Lawrence Walsh probably is an angry and vindictive man, as his critics charge. But I don't blame him. The Iran-contra independent prosecutor has spent six years trying to learn the truth about a scandal that dwarfs Watergate in seriousness and international implications. Yet there has been no Woodward-and-Bernstein glory for Walsh...
...guess is Walsh knows more about the Iran-contra scandal than any other person on this planet, yet he has had to watch Oliver North, John Poindexter and numerous other criminals like them go free...
Bush's Christmas Eve pardons of former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger '38 and five other Iran-contra figures may have been the last straw. Now, Walsh is going after Bush himself...
...enough that Bush signalled that shadow governments are acceptable and the separation of powers meaningless by cooperating in the Iran-contra cover-up. He didn't even exhibit a shred of courage by admitting that what Weinberger and the others did was wrong, but that he had chosen to pardon them anyway...
...Bush rushes to finish his presidency and define his legacy with a flurry of foreign policy activity--intervention in Somalia, the Start II treaty with Russia, a final standoff with Iraq--Walsh is unlikely to let either Bush or the American people forget the Iran-contra scandal and cover...