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- THE WEEK, Page 29NATIONIn His Own Writ
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- The case against Weinberger comes largely from his personal
- diaries
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- 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.
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- 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.
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