Word: diversionism
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For all his bland composure, Meese's description of the "fact-finding" mission left the impression of an incurious, if not downright obtuse, investigator who failed to keep notes of crucial interviews with key players in the scandal or follow up on hints that laws might have been broken. In...
Meese explained his failure to take notes during meetings with many of the key figures in the scandal by claiming that he was engaging only in "casual conversations" and not trying to gain "great amounts of information." One such chat occurred at the home of Director of Central Intelligence William...
Regan defended the President's intentions in trying to get American hostages back from Lebanon in return for U.S. weapons, and stated his certainty that Reagan knew nothing of the diversion to the contras. But one of his disclosures could prove damaging to the President. Since the early days of...
North's testimony may have marginally aided the contra cause and enhanced his own can-do image (though there are already signs that Olliemania is fading), but it did not help his Commander in Chief, who professed not to know what his National Security Council staff aide had been up...
-- When he presumably learned about the diversion from the hasty fact-finding probe of Attorney General Edwin Meese, he commendably made the startling fact public. Yet he made no effort to find out how this had happened from either Poindexter or North, who knew the details. One possibility was that...