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Nields, who gained national exposure last summer for his role in questioning witnesses at the congressional Iran-contra hearings, told a Law School audience of more than 300 that the government must reform its policy on covert operations...
...panel, which also included Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John Shattuck and Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson, was critical of past covert operations in Iran, Nicaragua and Panama...
...Iran-contra affair, our government used official secrecy to enable it to carry out activities which were illegal and contrary to popular will," Nields said. "When confronted, the officials responded as though the questioner had missed some very obvious point that they were engaged in covert operations...
Nesson said that past covert actions have indicated a "disbelief in our own rhetoric of democracy and converted it from a powerful ideal to a transparent political slogan." He called for reform of the National Security Act of 1947, which established the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council and implicitly endorses covert actions...
...hope the courts would see that the First Amendment is undercut by secrecy and covert action," Nesson said...