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...long-awaited witness initially seemed as skittish as her name would suggest. Fawn Hall's right hand trembled when she was sworn in as the 18th and final witness in the first phase of the congressional hearings on the Iran- contra scandal. But when she coolly related an extraordinary tale of typing phony official documents, shredding classified papers and hiding others in her clothes to sneak them past White House guards, her face hardened. Whenever her motives or those of her boss, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, were challenged, she flashed both anger and fear. "Sometimes you have to go above...
...just a few words, Fawn Hall crystallized the mentality of so many involved in the scandal. As House Majority Leader Thomas Foley put it, Hall's remark amounted to a "spontaneous evocation of the whole attitude of those involved: the ends justified the means...
...merchants whose yearning for profits may have exceeded their patriotism. Seemingly accountable to no one, these operatives used their secrecy, in Foley's view, "not to thwart our adversaries but to thwart the legitimate institutions of our Government. It was a covert action by the U.S. against the U.S." Fawn Hall's insistence that "it was a policy of mine not to ask questions" echoed the attitudes of other witnesses. Even Cabinet officials showed little curiosity about the questionable activities of their subordinates or timidly shrugged off decisions with which they sharply disagreed. Secretary of State George Shultz, for example...
WASHINGTON--Fawn Hall testified yesterday she spirited secret documents from the White House when the Iran-Contra connection was revealed because she feared they would fall into the wrong hands...
WASHINGTON--Fawn Hall, Oliver North's former White House secretary, told congressional committees yesterday that she helped him shred a foot-and-a-half stack of documents as the Iran-Contra affair began unraveling last fall, then walked out of the White House with other papers hidden in her clothing...