Word: counseled
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Others sharply disagree. Says Scott Armstrong, executive director of the National Security Archive, a nonprofit research institute: "The independent counsel has taken testimony from accountants and underlings that makes the case look different and the motive more sinister...
...exchange for their testimony, North and Poindexter were promised that only evidence gathered independently of their congressional appearances could be used against them in criminal prosecutions. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, who has been seeking such evidence, ordered key staffers not to watch the hearings, to avoid being tainted by protected testimony...
Many believe Walsh will begin handing up indictments as early as next month. But some prosecutors question whether the independent counsel can win convictions, particularly after the outpouring of sympathy for North. Observes former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal: In Watergate, "serious criminal statutes were involved. Officials were obstructing an FBI investigation, there was a 'smoking-gun tape,' the White House was paying burglars to keep quiet. Here, everything is murky." Attorney Arthur Christy, a former special prosecutor who investigated charges against Jimmy Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan, also doubts that convictions can be achieved. Says he: "A good prosecutor might...
...toughest opponents of North, after all, have included a Jewish lawyer (Senate counsel Arthur L. Liman '54), a Jewish Senator (Senate Committee Vice-chairmen Warren Rudman (R.-N.H.), a Japanese Senator (Inouye), and a Black Congressman (Louis Stokes (D.-Ohio)). By contrast, North has presented himself as the true-blue American defending democracy, freedom, God, and country. He is a populist hero, the little guy taking on the government. But as historians have long since pointed out, populism has two faces: one which celebrates the common man, another which reflects racism, anti-semitism, and xenophobia. Both faces of populism have...
Blackmun entered law school at Harvard only after seriously considering a medical career. He combined the two interests during the 1950s as resident counsel of the Mayo Clinic...