Word: iran-contra
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...associate, who was not identified, works closely with Tribe and had helped the liberal constitutional scholar do research for a May 22 article that Tribe wrote in The New York Times in which he argued that President Reagan may have committed impeachable offenses in his handling of the Iran-contra affair, according to the Globe report...
...midst of the political fracas over President Reagan's Supreme Court nominees and the Iran-Contra scandal, a dangerous attack is being mounted on the Constitution's guarantee of free speech and access to information, while much of the national press, The Crimson included, remains silent. At this very moment, two attempts are being made to close offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization with the intention of unconstitutionally silencing the supporters of that organization. This miscarriage of justice must be resisted if Americans wish to maintain their justifiably proud claim to freedom of politicial expression...
When the brown, 690-page congressional report on the Iran-contra fiasco finally thumped onto desks in Washington last week, one of the officials most keenly interested in the scandal vowed not to pick it up. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh cannot use any testimony that witnesses gave to the House and Senate committees under grants of immunity. Walsh and his staff of 28 lawyers, 20 FBI agents and six IRS investigators must build their own criminal cases against any lawbreakers. Nonetheless, the tightly reasoned, judiciously stated majority report, signed by all of the committees' 15 Democrats as well...
...President's responsibility is firmly fixed in the Constitution: "He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." In a stinging 450-page report certain to trigger heated controversy, a majority of the congressional Iran-contra committees this week will charge that Ronald Reagan failed to fulfill that solemn obligation. Says Warren Rudman, the feisty New Hampshire Senator who was one of three Republicans to join the 18-member majority: "The report deals with the responsibilities of the presidency, and I think it's fair...
...committees could not answer all questions about the Iran-contra affair. Testimony of different witnesses is contradictory. Documents were destroyed. Former CIA Director Casey died before he could be interrogated. Poindexter used variations of "I cannot recall" 184 times during his five days of testimony. Israeli witnesses were prohibited by their government from testifying. Nevertheless, the committees' majority report is clear on the most central point: the President's protestations of ignorance do not absolve him from responsibility for what went on at his behest and in his name...