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...Meese's aides accompanied him and took careful notes. But once the investigators discovered the celebrated memo in North's files that called attention to the diversion of funds to the contras, Meese went alone to interview Poindexter, former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and then CIA Director William Casey. He took no notes...
...most radical faction. And when North and Poindexter tried to open a "second channel," they wound up dealing with some of the same principals. One of the Iranians may have helped plan the kidnap- murder of William Buckley, the CIA operative in Lebanon whose capture especially angered Reagan and Casey...
...term is not included in the final version. However, the report details the bumbled investigation by Attorney General Edwin Meese, which allowed North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, time to destroy documents. It criticizes efforts by North, Robert McFarlane and others to falsify testimony that former CIA Director William Casey was to deliver to Congress. Says a staffer: "Even if it doesn't say 'cover-up,' the majority report makes clear that people were trying to keep other people from knowing what had been going on." The report does note that the White House cooperated with the congressional investigation...
...committees could not answer all questions about the Iran-contra affair. Testimony of different witnesses is contradictory. Documents were destroyed. Former CIA Director Casey died before he could be interrogated. Poindexter used variations of "I cannot recall" 184 times during his five days of testimony. Israeli witnesses were prohibited by their government from testifying. Nevertheless, the committees' majority report is clear on the most central point: the President's protestations of ignorance do not absolve him from responsibility for what went on at his behest and in his name...
Broomfield, in a separate statement to be attached to the report, said: "We should not understate the range of potential improprieties and illegalities" committed by the late CIA Director William Casey, former national security adviser John Poindexter and fired White House aide Oliver L. North, "as well as certain other governmental officials...