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Noriega co-counsel Steven Kcllin has noted other potential legal pitfalls in the case, including extreme pretrial publicity and Noriega's links with U.S. intelligence agencies, but U.S. Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh said he was confident the case was solid...
...nation that prides itself on the peaceful resolution of its deepest conflicts, the murder of a judge is an especially horrifying act. Vance is only the third federal judge to be murdered in this century. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh is making finding the killer the FBI's No. 1 priority. The sooner the mystery is solved, the better. At week's end another bomb went off, injuring Maryland state circuit court Judge John P. Corderman in his Hagerstown apartment. Whether that bombing was connected to the earlier blasts had not yet been established...
...cynic might suspect that one arm of the Government had protected another. The CIA swore to Attorney General Dick Thornburgh that if Joseph Fernandez, its former station chief in Costa Rica, were to use certain classified documents to defend himself at his Iran-contra trial, the nation's security would be endangered. Thornburgh last week repeated the claim in an affidavit to Federal Judge Claude Hilton. So Hilton dismissed all charges against Fernandez, even though Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh scoffed that the "fictional secrets" had already been disclosed in the press...
Certainly, Thornburgh has never shown such affection for the press. Since taking the helm, more than half of the Department's spokespersons have been laid off. Besides Spokesperson David Runkel, most officials are forbidden to speak to the press. (Internal memoranda sent to bureaucrats warning that leaks will not be tolerated were eventually leaked, however...
...matters stand now, Thornburgh has a monopoly on all public knowledge of what's going on at the Justice Department. Those who disagree may go to jail...