Word: deconcini
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...support for the idea builds, analysts are beginning to debate just how far CIA agents and officers should go in serving as corporate mercenaries. Most backers of the plan want the spy agency only to defend U.S. firms against foreign spies. Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dennis DeConcini favors making CIA intelligence available to U.S. companies but does not support running special operations against Airbus or Toyota to gather information. Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner wants the agency to run both defensive and offensive operations. "For us to collect and use commercial intelligence is merely a matter of creating a level...
...avoid the moment that faced him last Tuesday when the situation required a public statement on Hill's allegation: "The Senate cannot sweep it under the rug, or pretend that it is not staring us in the face." Other members have had personal embarrassments as well: Senator Dennis DeConcini is one of the Keating Five; Senator Joseph Biden had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race because of plagiarism; Senator Patrick Leahy had to resign from the Intelligence Committee after admitting he had leaked a confidential document...
...their staffs. The committee found Senators John Glenn of Ohio ($234,000 in Keating contributions) and John McCain of Arizona ($112,000) the least culpable, engaging only in "poor judgment" because they gave Keating less help than did the others. Senators Donald Riegle of Michigan ($76,000) and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona ($55,000 along with more than $50 million in real estate loans from Lincoln Savings to top campaign aides) gave the "appearance of being improper" because their intervention for Keating was more extensive...
...guidance as to what is legal and illegal. All five helped Keating and all five accepted money during the same period of time. But only Cranston, who received $982,000 from the S&L kingpin, failed to observe a respectful amount of time between service rendered and money collected. DeConcini hosted a high-level meeting at which he outlined Keating's demands, which gave an "appearance of being improper" in the eyes of the ethics panel. Glenn, who arranged a luncheon for Keating with then Speaker Jim Wright, was deemed merely to have "exercised poor judgment...
...fallen so precipitously that half of California voters polled believe he should resign now. Bolstered by their national-hero status, former astronaut Glenn and former POW McCain, the group's lone Republican, have recovered from the beating they took in the polls right after the Keating affair became public. DeConcini and Riegle have not been so lucky. Polls show that if they were up for re-election today, any challenger with a pulse could beat them...