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Even for some Republicans on the committee, Bush had gone too far. When he got to read the FBI report, Warner conceded that the document could readily lead to "credible differences of opinion" on what conclusions could be drawn from it. Bob Dole, who is not on the committee, noted that the President "was not totally accurate" in assessing the report. Nunn observed coldly, "That's the President's opinion, and I'm sure he thought carefully about it. It's not my opinion...
Instead, look for constant repetition of this sequence: North's combative attorney, Brendan Sullivan, tries to introduce in evidence a secret document that supports his client's claim to have acted only under orders from higher authority or merely followed routine Administration policy regarding covert activity. Prosecutor John Keker, on behalf of independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, objects, arguing that release of the document would damage national security. Judge Gerhard Gesell sends the jury out of the courtroom and summons ) opposing counsel to a conference. Perhaps the issue can be resolved there, but quite possibly the trial is suspended while...
...what Judge Gesell called a "treaty" between the Justice Department and the independent counsel's office. They identified eight general categories of deep secrets, promptly dubbed the "drop-dead list," some elements of which are deemed so exceedingly secret that officials dare not even speak their names. If any documents or testimony relating to a subject on the drop-dead list seemed likely to come up, the trial would halt while all parties tried to settle the question behind closed doors. If Gesell ruled that specific information was essential to North's defense, prosecutors would have three options. They could...
...agreement has its peculiarities. Gesell pointed out that it might push the prosecution into falsely implying that one of its witnesses lied. That could be the price of keeping secret a document proving that the witness had told the truth. "Is that what you're suggesting?" the judge asked a Justice Department attorney. The answer, in effect: well...
...produced by the Polish Red Cross and uncovered two years ago by a historian in Britain's Public Record Office. The report set the date of the murders between March and May of 1940, more than a year before the first German troops arrived. Polish officials, who presented the document to a joint Soviet-Polish commission investigating the Katyn massacre, had become increasingly impatient with Soviet procrastination...