home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=89TT2441>
- <title>
- Sep. 18, 1989: American Notes:Iran-Contra
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 39
- American Notes
- IRAN-CONTRA
- Poindexter and The Presidents
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Can former National Security Adviser John Poindexter
- accomplish what Oliver North could not: force Ronald Reagan or
- George Bush into a courtroom grilling about the Iran-contra
- scandal? Last week Poindexter's lawyer, Frederick Robinson,
- insisted that Reagan had ordered the admiral to tell Congress
- that the NSC staff was not violating restrictions on U.S. aid
- to the contras at a time when, in fact, it was. He also
- contended that Poindexter had briefed Bush about each White
- House meeting on Iran-contra that the then Vice President had
- missed. If so, Bush's knowledge might be far more extensive than
- he has admitted.
- </p>
- <p> Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell killed North's subpoenas for
- Reagan and Bush, partly because North rarely met with either
- the President or the Vice President. But Poindexter saw Reagan
- almost daily, and he dealt regularly with Bush. The decision on
- who must testify in Poindexter's trial will be made by Federal
- Judge Harold Greene, who reminded Robinson that "so far,
- (Reagan) has not been required to appear at trial." Replied
- Poindexter's lawyer: "No, but we're looking forward to it, your
- honor."
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-