Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Casey, Director of Central Intelligence and boss of the CIA, emerged through the same doors 5 1/2 hours later. He had testified about the growing scandal during all that time without a recess. When it was over, the 73-year-old former New York City lawyer and self-made millionaire seemed drained -- and his inquisitors disturbed. They were appalled mostly by how little the CIA chief professed to know. The head of an intelligence network that has snoops planted in hostile governments around the globe and has eavesdropped on Kremlin officials as they talked on their limousine telephones claimed...
...advised him I thought he ought to get prepared to pull the whole story together and make a public statement. He said he didn't want to do that because it was an ongoing operation. They were hoping to get some hostages out." Casey advised Poindexter to get a lawyer and then took another surprising step: he asked North whether any CIA people had been involved in any diversion of funds. According to Casey's testimony, North said...
Other than not testifying, North went about trying to maintain a normal life and huddling with his lawyer Brendan Sullivan. North maintained his good- humored equanimity, and when a photographer corralled him with his wife Betsy and one of his daughters while they looked at Christmas trees, North was obliging. "Is there no escape from you guys?" he asked with a weary smile as he posed. He left without buying a tree...
...were irregularities involving the profits from the Iranian arms deals. Casey got this tip on Oct. 7, more than a month before the contra diversions were publicly revealed by Meese. Casey promptly took the information to Poindexter and, one of his aides says, suggested that "he get himself a lawyer...
After a trial before a People's Tribunal composed of a lawyer, truck driver and laborer, Hasenfus was sentenced last month to 30 years for terrorism and other crimes. He was being held in the Tipitapa prison outside Managua when he was freed...