Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story has now been told," said Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate committee. He made it a chilling story of a flawed policy "kept alive by a secret White House junta despite repeated warnings and signs of failure...
...hearings, said Inouye, produced a vision of"a secret government, directed principally byNational Security Council staffers, accountable tonot a single elected official, includingapparently the president himself--a shadowygovernment with its own air force, its own navy,its own, fund-raising mechanism, and the abilityto pursue its own ideas of national interest, freefrom all checks and balances and the law itself...
Given all the frustrations and rebuffs, why did Shultz not resign? In fact, Shultz testified, he offered to resign on three occasions, none directly related to the Iranian arms deals. The first was in 1983, when McFarlane took a secret trip to the Middle East without informing the State Department. The second was in 1985, after Shultz publicly opposed a plan for widespread lie- detector testing of federal employees, a stand that estranged him from the intelligence community led by Casey. The final attempt came last August, when Shultz ran into White House roadblocks to his travel plans. But Reagan...
...hardly a secret in Washington that North had provided information on many stories to a variety of news organizations, including TIME. "Ollie was the biggest leaker in this Administration," one official told the Wall Street Journal. But no publication had ever fingered him as the source for a specific story until Newsweek decided that his accusations against Congress warranted such a disclosure. "When a guy lies on national television, at that point you have to reassess the rules," said Newsweek's media writer Jonathan Alter. "Given these unusual circumstances, we felt an obligation to point out to our readers that...
More than 60 years before the Bolshevik Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of Russia and America that "each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world." Thus it has been for 42 years since the celebratory meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe River at the end of World War II gave way to the deadly distrust of the postwar...