Word: keker
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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Associate independent counsel John W. Keker said North's lies to congressional committees and to the attorney general amount to "a crime that goes to the sold of our self-government...
...Keker, then Sullivan, delivered their opening statements, each describing a different North, the first person to go on trial in the Iran-Contra affair...
...need for secrecy is no excuse for lying to Congress," Keker told the jury. "Lying to Congress is a crime...
...have to be a political scientist to understand why that's so," Keker said. "Congress enacts the law, the president approves it and enforces it. If they start lying to each other our system of government is not going to work...
North and his boss at the time, National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, "decided they didn't want Congress to know what Colonel North had been doing. They decided they would not tell Congress," Keker said. "They decided they would place themselves above the law and not tell Congress about Colonel North's activities...