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THE WEEK, Page 29NATIONIn His Own Writ
The case against Weinberger comes largely from his personal
diaries
Just when it was widely expected that the Iran-contra
independent prosecutor was about to shut down, Lawrence Walsh
unveiled a five-count felony indictment of former Secretary of
Defense Caspar Weinberger, the highest official yet charged in
the scandal. In a hastily called Washington press conference,
Walsh aide Craig Gillen charged that Weinberger obstructed
justice by concealing more than 1,700 pages of personal notes
and committed perjury by denying knowledge of the 1985 arms
sales to Iran. Weinberger, the prosecutor charged, knew of the
sales, was aware they were illegal and later denied this in
sworn testimony. Each felony count carries a possible prison
term of five years.
Weinberger, who opposed the arms-for-hostages deal from
the first, called the charges "a grotesque distortion of the
prosecutorial power." He suggested that Walsh had acted out of
spite over Weinberger's refusal to cop a plea in exchange for
evidence against Ronald Reagan.