Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civil rights counsel of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'Nai B'Rith, Sally J. Greenberg, last night testified against city support for a creche...
...said the report was to be on the vice president's desk yesterday and, after review, to the appropriate congressional committees and to a special counsel expected to be appointed soon to look into Iranian arms sales and profits from them being diverted to the Contras...
...after all, was announced by the Administration rather than forced out by the courts -- but they were there just the same. Once again there were rumors of documents being destroyed (by North and Poindexter). Once again the White House was resisting demands for a special prosecutor (now called independent counsel) put forth by Congressmen who did not trust the Administration to investigate itself. Once again congressional hearings were getting ready to launch upon their unknown and potentially damaging course. Worst of all, there was a revival, before last Tuesday's press briefing was over, of the quietly poisonous question...
...amount of Administration self-investigation is likely to satisfy Congress. In a letter to Meese that put on the record what many other legislators had demanded, a House Judiciary Subcommittee requested the appointment of a Watergate-style independent counsel. Subcommittee Chairman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, bluntly challenged the Attorney General's ability to conduct an impartial probe, citing among other things "your closeness to the President." The White House is so far resisting calls for such a special prosecutor. But as more information emerges each day, it becomes less likely that the affair can be concluded simply through Meese...
Reagan defended the action taken by departednational security adviser John Poindexter andNorth in exercising their constitional rights,saying, "It is not new or unusual--it's happenedmany times before--that when there is going to bean independent counsel starting an investigation,that individuals that have no access to files orpapers or time for preparation for questions, havedone just exactly the same thing, so that theythen can be witnesses for the investigation...