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...provide support for the Nicaraguan contras involved not only North but also Ronald Reagan, former Secretary of State George Shultz, CIA Director William Casey and, most important, George Bush. The court paper was supplied by the staff of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh with the approval of Attorney General Dick Thornburgh. It had been drawn up to satisfy North's attorney, Brendan Sullivan, who had fought for months for the right to use classified documents to demonstrate that North's contra activities were part of a secret Administration policy...
...vote of 7 to 2, the constitutionality of the Government regulations that require railroad crews involved in accidents to submit to prompt urinalysis and blood tests. The Justices also upheld, 5 to 4, urine tests for U.S. Customs Service employees seeking drug-enforcement posts. Said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh: "The court recognized that the Government can, and indeed should, take all necessary and reasonable steps to prevent drug use by employees in sensitive positions...
North's lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, claims that his client cannot adequately defend himself without relying on certain classified information--information that the intelligence community, represented by Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh, has been unwilling to divulge...
...still do not have to agree with Sullivan's arguments for dismissal. Instead, we must call on Gesell to make sure all the information North wants released is truly necessary for a fair trial. And we must pressure Thornburgh and the intelligence community to declassify information so that North can be tried on as many counts as possible...
North's strategy, it seems, is to threaten to disclose embarrassing secrets if the Government will not drop the trial. In the bitter words of Robin Ross, chief aide to Attorney General Thornburgh, "This great American hero is graymailing the Government. This is the guy who stood up in his Marine Corps uniform and all his medals, and now he is sticking it to the Government with an advantage ((knowledge of secrets)) he got through service to his country...