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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (760336)	3/15/2007 6:47:32 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 769670

Ed Meese was a nice man, but his background as a lawyer and his credentials for Attorney General were very weak. His time in the position was noted by a drifting justice department and a lack of any meaningful accomplishments. He resigned in part due to handling of Iran/Contra. Meese's tenure was highly controversial. His involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair as a "counselor" and "friend" to the President, not as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, attracted the most criticism. Chapter 31 of the official Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters reveals his direct involvement: Meese knew that the 1985 HAWK transaction, in which the National Security Council staff and the Central Intelligence Agency were directly involved without a presidential covert-action Finding authorizing their involvement, raised serious legal questions. The President was potentially exposed to charges of illegal conduct if he was knowledgeable of the shipment and had not reported it to Congress, under the requirements of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and in the absence of a Finding...When Meese got answers in his inquiry that did not support his defense of the President, he apparently ignored them, as he did with Secretary of State George P. Shultz's revelation on November 22 that the President had told him that he had known of the HAWK shipment in advance.[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Meese His highlight achievement in the job? A commission on pornography. But he was a nice guy.