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Stalked by the Special Prosecutor |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Russ Braley |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 3,730 Words, 22,827 Characters |
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UNDUE PROCESS
A Story of How Political Differences Are Turned
into Crimes
Elliott Abrams
New York: The Free Press, 1992
243 pp., $22.95
In 1985 Elliott Abrams took over a demanding job superivising twenty-two U.S. embassies in guerrilla-plagued Latin America, and he was sitting on top of the world. A foreign policy buff in his midthirties, he was an assistant secretary of state in a key post, and the sky was the limit to his political future.
He was also assertive and a bit cocky, so when the Iran-Contra scandal broke, he was a natural target of the envious or vindictive among the Democrat-controlled Congress. At Harvard Law School, Abrams had been a Scoop Jackson Democrat. He rang doorbells in Boston for Jackson's 1972 presidential campaign, then went to Washingt...
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...ir own in-house history of their achievements. Walsh and Gillen are themselves under investigation by the Justice Department for inflating their expenses, and both were fined by the District of Columbia government for failing to pay District income taxes. Abrams was completing his book on foreign policy, for publication in 1993. He is out of government, but we are sure to hear from him again.
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