On Iran-contra, what did Roberts know?
Christian Science Monitor
09/12/05
What did you know, and when did you know it? That query, dating from the Watergate probe, is perhaps the best known question ever asked during a congressional hearing (at least since the McCarthy era). But the kind of scandal that prompts such a bare-knuckled interrogation does not appear on John Roberts's golden resume. The US Supreme Court nominee, now appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, is being questioned about his conservative leanings, his past writings, and his courtroom advocacy of far-right constitutional interpretations. ... Nonetheless ... Roberts was in close proximity to what ultimately became the Reagan administration's Iran-contra scandal...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0913/p03s01-usfp.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
09/12/05
What did you know, and when did you know it? That query, dating from the Watergate probe, is perhaps the best known question ever asked during a congressional hearing (at least since the McCarthy era). But the kind of scandal that prompts such a bare-knuckled interrogation does not appear on John Roberts's golden resume. The US Supreme Court nominee, now appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, is being questioned about his conservative leanings, his past writings, and his courtroom advocacy of far-right constitutional interpretations. ... Nonetheless ... Roberts was in close proximity to what ultimately became the Reagan administration's Iran-contra scandal...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0913/p03s01-usfp.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 13. Sep, 10:49
