Word: hamilton
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...HAMILTON EISH...
...What these committees have heard is a depressing story," said Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), chairman of the House committee. "It is a story of not telling the truth to the Congress and the American people," he said, ticking off a litany of the affair in which he said a secret supply network was established to aid the Contra rebels, arms were sold covertly to Iran and some administration officials made efforts to mislead Congress about their activities...
...nearly six weeks of hearings, the committees received what Hamilton described as "some of the most extraordinary testimony ever given to the U.S. Congress...
...government cannot function cloaked in secrecy," said Hamilton. "It cannot function unless officials tell the truth. The Constitution only works when the two branches of government trust one another and cooperate...
While McFarlane came across as a good soldier, his earnest admissions did not wash with Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House panel. "I appreciate your willingness to shoulder great responsibility," Hamilton told the witness. "But I cannot accept that answer . . . You cannot, it seems to me, accept responsibility for mistakes, as admirable as that may be, and thereby absolve the President of responsibility." Outside the hearings, & Democratic Senator George Mitchell of Maine was more colorful. "McFarlane's testimony of the President's personal involvement," he said, "does tend to indicate that the water is lapping at the walls...