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...criminal case against North had divided the complicated scandal into discrete and comprehensible acts, like lying to Congress, tampering with evidence and illegally converting funds to his own use. But such narrow charges barely touched broader and still unanswered questions: To what extent was the former National Security Council staffer, as he claimed in his defense, following orders when he led a secret effort to provide assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of congressional bans? Were present and former Government officials, including Ronald Reagan and George Bush, involved in a cover-up of the covert campaign? Why were documents...
...Washington Post retold it last week, Capitol Hill seemed unable to concentrate on anything else. The reason went beyond the sheer savagery of the act: the attacker, John Mack, 35, is now the top aide to beleaguered Speaker of the House Jim Wright and arguably the most powerful staffer in Congress...
...both the Foreign Ministry and Shevardnadze himself. In fact, the Soviets have become gluttons for glasnost. One session, conducted in both Russian and English, took eight hours. Says Blackman: "It was John and I who finally suggested we call it a day." At another interview with a top Shevardnadze staffer, Blackman was locked in the room to hear everything the official had to say. "We can't take any chances," an aide explained sheepishly. No problem. We never run away from a good story...
...Congress or California or Cairo, the former CIA director turned not only to his staff but also to an extensive network of friends, former aides and political allies, who would sometimes report back through special phone and mail channels that skirted his official staff. A former senior Bush staffer says he was "flabbergasted" to learn that the boss "had his own cutouts, just like a spymaster...
North, a former National Security Council staffer, stands accused of 12 different charges including lying to Congress, shredding government documents and illegally accepting travelers checks and a home security system...