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Last week Interior Secretary Donald Hodel proposed a reversal of that decision. If the reservoir could be drained and the valley restored to its original condition, mused Hodel in a staff memo, "what a tremendous payoff for America...
Would you be willing to give up some of your vacation time or sick leave so that it could be used by a co-worker? When employees at the Internal Revenue Service's Cincinnati office read in an office memo a proposal to do just that a few weeks ago, their response was generous indeed. By last week 291 employees had donated 813 days of their sick leave and 92 days of vacation time to a co-worker, William Ault, 28, an IRS examiner who has leukemia...
Meese did not seal North's office or secure any of the colonel's documents until four days after the memo was found because, he testified, there was still "no obvious criminality" involved. Alerted by his conversation with the Attorney General, North returned to his office that night for a shredding session that lasted from 11 p.m. to 4:15 a.m. Responding to questions about his lackadaisical dealings with North, Meese blithely maintained that the papers North destroyed were probably "irrelevant...
...claiming that he was engaging only in "casual conversations" and not trying to gain "great amounts of information." One such chat occurred at the home of Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, whom North has depicted as a sponsor of the diversion scheme, just hours after the incriminating memo was found. Meese insisted that he did not discuss the transfer of funds to the contras with Casey. The Attorney General described a laid-back talk about the diversion with Vice Admiral John Poindexter, who told him, "Ollie has given me enough hints about this so that I generally knew...
...first time the admiral could remember seeing the infamous diversion memo at all was when Meese directly confronted him with it last Nov. 24. Poindexter said he promptly offered to resign; on the following day the Attorney General instructed him to do so. Strangely, however, Meese never asked Poindexter who approved the transfer of arms profits to the contras. Nor did White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan question Poindexter about the diversion...