May 5-8: Opening statements, Secord
May 11-14, 19: McFarlane, Sigur, Owen
May 20-21, 27-28: Calero, Rodriguez et al.
- Opening statement by Calero
- Calero on arms payments
- Calero on Reagan, Casey
- Rodriguez on Bush meeting
- Rodriguez on Bush meeting2
May 29: Castillo
June 2-5, 8-9: Abrams, Hakim, Hall et al.
- Abrams on “monitor[ing] Ollie”
- Abrams on soliciting Brunei
- Abrams arguing with Rep. Brooks
- Abrams and Sen. Nunn on how to operate government
- Abrams and Sen. Inouye on being “immoral”
- Hakim on “B. Button” and North’s death insurance
- Hakim on his “love” for North
- Hakim on North and the hostages
- Hakim on North’s use of Reagan’s name
- Hakim on war with Russia
- Hakim told by Sen. Inouye of the “drastically wrong” situation
- Hall on Swiss bank account number
- Hall on altering documents
- Hall on hiding documents under her clothes
- Hall talks to Sen. Boren about shredding
- Hall talks to Rep. Foley about going “above the written law”
June 23-25: Robinette et al.
July 7-10, 13-14 North
- North being “here to tell it all”
- North on shredding
- North on more shredding
- North on the signed arms-for-hostages Finding
- North on countries who wanted to donate
- North on Reagan’s knowledge of private fundraising
- North on the “neat idea” of the Diversion
- North on his family’s safety
- North on Casey’s knowledge
- North on who in the Cabinet knew what
- North on the democratic process and “difference between lives and lies”
- North on why he’s not lying now
- North on getting fired and covering up the Diversion
- North on shredding embarrassing documents
- North’s lawyer objecting to “dreamland” scenarios
- North on Reagan’s “body and soul” request
- North on plausible deniability
- Sen. Hatch on covert operations
- Sen. Rudman on what the people want
- North’s final statement
- Rep. Hamilton on patriotism
- Sen. Inouye on military ethics and the Nuremberg Trials
July 15-17, 20-21: Poindexter
- Poindexter on destroying the Finding
- Poindexter on Reagan’s knowledge of selling arms to Iran
- Poindexter on keeping Reagan unaware
- Poindexter on Boland’s application to NSC
- Poindexter on what Reagan approved
- Poindexter on Reagan’s knowledge of North’s activities
- Poindexter “not recall[ing]” anything
- Sen. Trible asking Poindexter about the Naval honor code
- Rep. Hamilton on where the “buck stops”
July 23-24, 28-29: Shultz and Meese
- Shultz on opposing arms for hostages
Shultz on Reagan’s insistence on hostage recovery
Shultz on advisers misleading Reagan
- Shultz on Reagan’s response to press conference
- Shultz on Casey’s power grab
- Sen. Mitchell asks Shultz whether Reagan kept him out of loop
- Rep. DeWine asks Shultz why he kept himself unaware
- Meese statement on internal investigation
- Meese on what Poindexter and the White House knew
- Meese on Boland’s applicability to the NSC
- Sen. Rudman asks Meese why Reagan did not talk to Poindexter or North
- Sen. Mitchell asks Meese about not taking notes (4 pages)
- Sen. Mitchell asks Meese about not securing documents
- Sen. Nunn asks Meese about his gathering of information
July 30-31, August 3: Regan, Weinberger, closing statements
- Regan on “oil drilling” as cover story
- Regan on Reagan’s lack of knowledge
- Regan on Reagan’s immunity decisions
- Sen. Nunn questions Regan on wanting neither side to win Iran-Iraq War
- Weinberger on not dealing with Iranian moderates
- Weinberger on Iranian relationship
- Sen. Nunn questions Weinberger on lack of Cabinet communication
- Closing statement by Rep. Cheney
- Closing statement by Sen. Rudman
- Closing statement by Rep. Hamilton
- Closing statement by Sen. Inouye
August 4-6: Clarridge and George |
