Word: counsellors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accusation that SALT was harmful to U.S. interests. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, who had overall responsibility for national security policy, reassured Reagan that the contradictory statements being issued from the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom were just a case of "the bureaucracy sorting itself...
...Office, an arm of Congress, was refused access to the books. Leaks about who got how much from the funds appeared; White House aides reportedly quarreled among themselves about how much to disclose and when Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor who is looking into the financial affairs of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, asked for a copy of an audit by the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., and the funds' lawyers finally released it last week. It pointed to no apparent illegalities. The audit, however, did present some intriguing bits of information that might inspire some new questions...
...another matter affecting Meese, Democratic Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder of Colorado charged last week that Government officials created a job for Gretchen Thomas. She is the wife of a former Meese aide who made a $15,000 loan to the Presidential Counsellor's wife that Meese failed to disclose. Thomas' employer: the San Francisco office of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which is supposed to guard against favoritism in the hiring and promotion of Government employees. Schroeder demanded that Board Chairman Herbert Ellingwood resign...
...indeed they exist. Barens has had subpoenas issued to the FBI, the CIA and the Los Angeles police department for any videotapes and documents pertaining to Morgan's Washington liaisons. No names were listed in the court documents, but Barens told reporters his client maintains that Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese was among Morgan's filmed partners. Claims Barens: "We have information that the videotapes exist and that the Government has them." Last month Meese told TIME he had never met Vicki Morgan...
...another cloud has appeared over the troubled nomination of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese as U.S. Attorney General: a tax-exempt Reagan Administration transition fund, headed by Meese in 1980-81, that refuses to reveal where its private donations came from and where much of its money went. The New York Times reported last week that the fund has even refused to open its books to a federal audit. The disclosure led Senate Judiciary Committee Member Ted Kennedy to ask Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor looking into allegations raised against Meese, to include the fund in his probe. A source close...