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- NATION, Page 28American NotesPRISONSSilencing a Quayle Tale
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- Convicted drug runner Brett C. Kimberlin, 36, claims he sold
- marijuana to Dan Quayle a dozen or so times in the 1970s and
- even smoked some with the future Vice President in 1971 at a
- fraternity party in Indiana. Serving a 50-year sentence in the
- Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., for
- smuggling dope and taking part in a 1978 series of bombings in
- Speedway, Ind., Kimberlin tried to publicize his allegations
- four days before the 1988 election. But a funny thing happened
- before Kimberlin could conduct a jailhouse press conference:
- he was suddenly slapped into protective confinement and the
- conference abruptly canceled -- all on a personal order from
- Bureau of Prisons Director J. Michael Quinlan.
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- Now Kimberlin, who has been transferred to the Federal
- Correctional Institution in Memphis, is suing Quinlan, the
- Bureau of Prisons and a former Justice Department spokesman --
- Loye Miller -- in federal court, alleging that in keeping him
- quiet they violated his free-speech rights. The prison bureau
- insists that the special detention was in line with standard
- policy governing prisoner contacts with news media. As for
- Quayle and pot, press secretary David Beckwith declared, "The
- Vice President has never used marijuana or, to his knowledge,
- met Brett Kimberlin."
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