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...just shows that like the rest of the American government, the Supreme Court has become politicized," said Jonathan B. Vessey '95. "Justices should be put on because of their ability, not because of their race, sex or political affiliation...
...requirements of the U.S. ((on MIAs, family reunification, human-rights abuses in the re-education camps)). But in the State Department there is no change. For example, I am not allowed to go beyond 25 miles of New York City when I am in the U.S. ((retired General John)) Vessey can come here and go everywhere. American Congressmen are free to go everywhere in Vietnam...
...specific meetings, memos, dates, names, Reagan's mind was pretty much a blank. General Vessey? "Oh dear, I could ask for help here. The name I know is very familiar." (It should be: he was Reagan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.) Adolfo Calero? Reagan could not recall the most famous of the contra leaders even after he was shown a picture of the two of them together at a White House gathering. He had somehow missed the fact that McFarlane pleaded guilty in 1988 to withholding information from Congress. Shown the section of the Tower commission report...
...right off the bat. He claims that secret documents show that Ronald Reagan and other members of his Administration -- among them Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, CIA Director William Casey and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General John Vessey -- "personally and directly" took part in arranging deals to have other countries aid the Nicaraguan contras at a time when help from the U.S. was forbidden by law; they then allegedly ordered the arrangements kept secret. Sullivan hopes to show with this classified material that North was just following orders when...
Nonetheless, the Army's top command -- particularly Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer and Vice Chief General John Vessey -- had become committed to secret operations. When the Reagan Administration took office, the generals made the new ad hoc groups permanent. In early 1981 Colonel James Longhofer, who had worked on Honey Badger, was assigned to head an expanded office of special operations to oversee various types of unconventional missions. One of its field units was Seaspray, jointly commanded by the Army and the CIA, which took over the special helicopters developed for the Iran rescue mission. The Pentagon dutifully briefed...