Word: nsc
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...told reporters that while Tamraz failed to win U.S. support, he got far on his campaign connections. After meeting Tamraz at a March 1996 fund-raising event, Clinton asked counselor Mack McClarty to "follow up" on the oil financier's proposal. Later an Energy Department official interceded with the NSC, citing Tamraz's pledge to double the $200,000 he had already given Democrats. "We've taken away their first day of hearings," a White House aide said. A G.O.P. committee source agreed: "The Democrats have done this brilliantly...
...political operative like Fowler allegedly know how to reach into the CIA and order a secret report to pressure the NSC to change a security position? That's what the CIA would like to know. Agency communications records and documents state that Fowler telephoned a mid-level CIA officer who was Tamraz's contact in the clandestine Operations Directorate in December 1995, though Fowler denies making any calls. Meanwhile, intelligence officials told TIME that CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz is investigating whether the officer, at Tamraz's urging, telephoned Fowler in October to confirm that the businessman had helped...
Heslin alerted the NSC to the lobbying by Fowler, and council deputy director Nancy Soderberg called Fowler and told him, in essence, to lay off. She didn't mention the encounter to Lake, thinking the problem was taken care of. So how to account for the fact that in the months that followed, Tamraz visited the White House not once but four more times? It turns out that the fire wall Lake constructed to keep politics out of foreign policy seems to have surrounded only him. His apparent inability to monitor the doings of 151 security-council staff members...
Ironically, Lake might have been better suited to the CIA post than he was to the NSC. He is secretive by nature and never sought the limelight; a bulletin board used to hang in the White House situation room with all the press photos that described him as an "unidentified staffer." While at the White House, he preferred shooting pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations...
...been obsessed with his integrity. He had resigned from the Nixon Administration as a point of honor. He had never faced Senate confirmation for any position and wasn't used to the rough and tumble of congressional questioning. He had reached the job of his dreams at the NSC, only to see it be his undoing. "I consider this a personal tragedy," says Richard Holbrooke, who entered the foreign service with Lake and served with him in Saigon. "Tony was the most brilliant of the young group that came up together in Vietnam...