Word: sidetracks
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...polygraph test, he was censured for leaking confidential FBI data to an Oklahoma journalist. Yet he still managed to rise to the post of FBI associate deputy director for investigation. In the 1980s, Revell came under scrutiny after he received calls from Oliver North, who was seeking to sidetrack federal probes that threatened to reveal the Iran-contra mess. But no proof surfaced that Revell meddled in the cases. Then, in 1988, Revell acknowledged in a Senate hearing that the FBI had been misled by an undercover informer whose "concocted" data led to a two-year surveillance program against Americans...