Word: messing
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Although Thornburgh will be very busy getting confirmed as attorney general by the Senate and cleaning up the mess left in the Justice Department by Meese, this should not exclude him from consideration for vice president. The IOP director offers the Republican Party a great opportunity to highlight its differences with Gov. Michael S. Dukakis as well as get some free publicity at the expense of Democratic Party...
...Meese announced his resignation as Attorney General, President Reagan moved to clean up the Justice Department by nominating a man of "proven integrity": former Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh. "The President wanted to raise the morale of the Justice Department," said a top White House aide, indirectly acknowledging the Meese mess. "He wanted to get it back in working order...
...this whole thing ends with just the resignations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, I'll be disappointed," Attorney Daniel Sheehan declared after filing a $22.5 million civil suit in 1986 charging that former U.S. intelligence agents and anti-Communist crusaders -- including prominent figures in the Iran-contra mess -- had engaged in "political assassination, gunrunning and drug trafficking." Last week, just before the case was to go to trial, Federal Judge James Lawrence King ruled that Sheehan and his colleagues at the Christic Institute, a Washington public-interest law firm, had failed to prove their conspiracy theory...
...heart of the mess lies the so-called Iron Triangle, the web of cozy relationships among Pentagon officials, defense consultants and military contractors. The scandal has shed light not only on a few suspected of corruption but on an entire system that seems tailor-made for cheating. It has become common practice for top military men to retire and head straight for consulting companies -- sometimes known as Beltway bandits or rent-a-general firms -- where they sell their expertise and contacts to defense contractors...
...prove there was an exchange of money for secret information, it will be a classic example of the most spectacular part of the Ill Wind mess. One clue to the kind of information often sought: FBI agents searched the Washington office of William Tallia, vice president of Pratt & Whitney, on the authority of a search warrant alleging that the company had copies of sensitive documents filed with the Pentagon by archcompetitor General Electric. Both companies were selling engines for the Air Force F-18 fighter and the Navy's V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft...