Word: claire
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...Clair George, another CIA official whom Bush pardoned, was recently convicted on two counts of lying to Congress--that's lying, not disagreeing, and Bush claims it was just a "policy difference...
...most prominent of those pardoned was former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who was awaiting trial in January. The President also absolved former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, former Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams and three ex-CIA officials: Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers and Clair George. Conspicuously absent from Bush's list were other Iran-contra defendants, including Richard Secord, deemed by the President to have gained financially from the affair...
...MAKING HIS LIST AND CHECKING IT TWICE. PRESIDENT Bush, that is; and the list includes Caspar Weinberger, Clair George and others hoping that Bush will invoke executive clemency to pardon them before he leaves office next month. Add JONATHAN JAY POLLARD, now in his eighth year of a life term in Marion, Illinois, for spying for Israel. Pollard's attorney has asked for a commutation of sentence, arguing that his client's life term was much harsher than those meted out to other recently convicted spies. President-elect Clinton has said he favors a review of the sentencing...
...FIRST TOP CIA OFFICER CONVICTED OF acts committed in the performance of duty. That alone makes Clair George a big catch for the Iran- contra prosecutors. But after six years and $33 million worth of frustration, his also was a rare conviction that might stick. A jury convicted the former chief of the CIA's spy network on two charges of lying to Congress (he was acquitted on five perjury counts). He could be sent to jail for 10 years, though it is unlikely he will ever go behind bars. Still, independent counsel Lawrence Walsh called his conviction "an important...
...Bart St. Clair is terrific as the semi-sadist in question. He also sends up a series of characters seeking to cash in on Seymour's sudden success, portraying everyone from Clair Booth Luce to a William Morris agent. And as the voice and puppeteer of Audrey II, respectively, Toby Blackwell and Bill Tomlinson create such a wonderful "mean green mother" of a plant that you almost start rooting...