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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he was surprised. He was concerned about it. I advised him that I thought he ought to get prepared to pull the whole story together and make a public statement of some kind. He said he didn't want to do that until -- because it was an ongoing operation. They were hoping to get some hostages...
...wasn't happy about that because I wanted to get his reaction." The article did not come up, but Reagan showed he was in tune with the hard-nosed approach. He claimed that he was personally responsible for breaking the news of the secret dealings, quipping, "I ought to get the Pulitzer Prize...
Buchanan took that as a cue to continue his crusade. In a TV interview he elaborated on the President's joke and attributed it to "one guy at the White House." Said Buchanan: "Ronald Reagan and Ed Meese are the Woodward and Bernstein of this. They ought to get the Pulitzer Prize." At a Miami rally of some 3,000 Cuban Americans that night, he heated up his rhetoric. "If Colonel North ripped off the Ayatullah and took $30 million and gave it to the contras," he declared, "then God bless Colonel North...
...chief intelligence officer of the U.S. Government seems to know less about this affair than the average American who reads the daily press," declared Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York. Contended Connecticut Democrat Samuel Gejdenson: "If Casey really knows as little as he tried to portray, he ought to be fired for incompetence. And if he knew more, he ought to be fired because the President instructed his people to be forthcoming." Casey had replied "I don't know" to so many questions that the answer began drawing laughter from some committee members. Said Pennsylvania Democrat Peter Kostmayer...
Casey, who appeared to be stalling Furmark, says he had conveyed his friend's complaints to Poindexter on Oct. 8. "He was surprised and concerned about it," Casey says of Poindexter. "I 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...