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Democracy demands accountability, both in the policies of its government and from those who wish to make those policies. Sometimes it extracts that accountability unwillingly, uncomfortably, untidily. As the Gary Hart campaign consumed itself with dizzying swiftness and Richard Secord detailed his intricate web, the U.S. received a painful accounting of leaders. All week there was a sense of the surface of things being stripped away, the underside of public life being exposed to view...
Underlying the discomfort at watching Hart and Secord is a renewed sense of unease about some of the country's practices and institutions. Once the private behavior of public figures was shielded from view. A conspiracy of croniness united press and politicians. But now all deals are off. The press can stake out the comings and goings of people at a private town house, as well as the takeoffs and landings of planes at unmarked Central American airstrips. But are there some realms of personal privacy and legitimate covert policy that ought not be exposed? Has the system for screening...
...Secord described the Iranians as representing a "second channel" of communication with Iran, one that U.S. participants in the ultimately unsuccessful arms-for-hostages project were eager to pursue at the time...
North, who was fired in November after revelations that profits from the arms sales to Iran were diverted to the Contras, met with the Iranians in the Old Executive Office Building, Secord said...
...They were even given a quick tour late one night of the White House grounds and the standard tourist tour of the White House," Secord said, adding that North was their guide. He said the Secret Service was aware of the Iranians' presence...