Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, Meese was bluntly told by William Weld, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, that he might be subject to indictment for his dealings with E. Robert Wallach, a central figure in both the Wedtech and Iraqi pipeline affairs. Weld and Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns, the second in command, warned Meese that his behavior was "poisoning the department." Then the two officials, handpicked by Meese for their senior posts, publicly announced their resignations and those of four of their closest advisers...
...heart of Meese's troubles was his friendship with Wallach, who advised Meese during his difficult Senate confirmation as Attorney General in 1985. The wheeler-dealer lawyer had financial interests in both Wedtech and the proposed Iraqi oil pipeline that Meese tried to expedite. Wallach was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York City last December for illegally acquiring payments from Wedtech to influence Meese...
...recall having read the specific words that have now mushroomed into importance." That was the all too typical explanation by Attorney General Edwin Meese of a memo he received suggesting a way to get Israel to guarantee the safety of a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. Last week Meese's lawyers released the declassified 1985 memo from E. Robert Wallach, the Attorney General's former personal attorney. What his Swiss-cheese memory had failed to retain was alarming...
...cascade of misinformation, false headlines, half-truths, innuendo and misunderstanding" about whether he ignored an associate's proposal to bribe Israeli officials. The words, he said, are part of a long document sent to him in 1985 by his former California attorney, E. Robert Wallach, concerning a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. In a statement to the press, Meese declared that he cannot recall having read the words at the time. But they do not, he said, mention any "bribes or payoffs" to guarantee that Israel would not attack the pipeline...
...suggestion allegedly came from E. Robert Wallach, a Meese friend and his former personal attorney. The purported proposal: that a bribe be paid to an Israeli official, perhaps Prime Minister Shimon Peres or his Labor Party, to ensure that Israel would not sabotage a proposed pipeline that would carry Iraqi oil through Jordan to the Red Sea, bypassing the perilous Persian Gulf...