Reagan

With Reagan
Edwin Meese III (Attorney ordinary March 14 1985)

internal tribute Council:
William Webster: Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
General Jack Vessey: chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Caspar Weinberger: Secretary of Defense
George Shultz: Secretary of State
Edwin Meese: Attorney General.

Iran-Contra Affair,242-271
Discovery, 242-257
Errors, 285-288
Impact, 301-303
Investigation, 294-301
Legality question, 264-271
Negotiations, 258-261
Outcome, 302-303
accountability for diversion, 289-303
Director of Central Intelligence, William Casey, 289-299, 301

Attorney General Edwin Meese briefs the congressional Joint Leadership in the Cabinet Room merely prior to his public announcement of the Iran-Contra discovery.

President Reagan discusses the Iran-Contra affair with members of the internal Security Council on November 25, 1986. (Casper Weinberger, George Shultz, Ed Meese, and Don Regan.





Attorney General Edwin Meese testifies at the Iran-Contra hearings on July 28, 1987

Discovering a Crisis:
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Meese had been attorney ecumenical since 1985 and he was meeting with three members of his staff from the Department of Justice, confederate Attorneys General Charles Cooper and William Bradford Reynolds, and his chief of staff, John Richardson.
-They had been helping him with a review of a hitherto secret administration endeavour toward Iran.
-This covert activity had burst into public print twain weeks before through an item in Al Shiraa, an dingy publication in Lebanon, apparently inspired by anti-U.S. elements in Iran.

-He had first learned of this project on January of 1986 at a White
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House meeting with President Reagan and other members of the National Security Council.

-The object of the plan was twofold: to obtain a strategic opening to Iran, and to seek Iranian help in freeing the U.S. hostages held by extremists in Lebanon. One component was to trade in limited quantities of...If you want to get a full essay, consecrate it on our website: Orderessay



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