Word: recklessly
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...Director William Casey, and a Chief of Staff Don Regan whose proclaimed mastery of spin control failed miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these officials floundered, Oliver North, with the approval of his boss on the National Security Council staff, John Poindexter, showed a reckless disdain for the laws of the land by creating a covert network to fund the contras in Nicaragua while trading arms to the Iranians...
...wonder that Lieut. Colonel North did not have the time or inclination to linger over literary style. For as the Tower report voluminously documents by reprinting those memos, North was operating as a reckless and overburdened free agent of the NSC. During 1985 and '86 he simultaneously conducted a tense and frustrating series of arms-hostages negotiations with Iran and coordinated a supply line for the contras in Nicaragua. Like the ringleader of a vast, secret circus, North masterminded an elaborate network of boats and planes, along with not-for-profit corporations and Swiss bank accounts to help...
...President, exposed as uninvolved and unaware, must try to redraw the panel' s devastating portrait of a leaderless Administration. -- Washington hails the choice of Howard Baker as chief of staff. -- Computer memos detail Oliver North' s reckless overreaching. -- Reagan Agonistes: Author Garry Wills muses on the evanescence of the Reagan bedazzlement. See NATION...
Reed's most recent novel, Reckless...
Black women. Reckless Eyeballing...