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Lying to Congress. McFarlane, North and Poindexter have admitted that they chose to mislead Congress in letters and statements about their activities in support of the contras. Although North was not under oath when he gave false testimony, all three men could be charged with making false statements to a Government agency...
...high noon on Wednesday, July 15, almost eight months after he was relieved of his White House duties, Admiral John Poindexter made it official: there was no smoking gun. Ronald Reagan, his former National Security Adviser claimed under oath, had not been told that profits from the ill-conceived arms deals with Iran were diverted to support the Nicaraguan contras. "I made a very deliberate decision not to ask the President so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability," the loyal admiral insisted. Then he lit his pipe, sending up a puff of white...
Then there is the question of how much of what North says under oath ought to be believed. He has already been caught in a lie he told to Justice Department investigators before he was fired from the NSC staff last fall, and doubts about his testimony to Congress may eventually have to be resolved by a trial jury. Though North will testify under a grant of limited immunity, which ensures that nothing truthful he says this week can be used against him, he can still be prosecuted on the basis of other evidence collected by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh...
...Bell considered this proviso unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court subsequently ruled, but at the time, Capitol Hill Democrats led by O'Neill seemed more eager to fight than be right. "They almost wanted to be co-President," Bell recalled the other day. "If a President is faithful to his oath, he must resist...
Such is the litany of sins which made my time at Harvard more bearable. Of course, if put under oath, I deny everything. Lies, all lies. But just in case, I'll be out of here before they can double-check...