Oliver North testimony Congressional hearing — Transcript
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- 0:00you have testified that as a member of
- 0:02the National Security Council staff you
- 0:05conducted a covert operation and my
- 0:08question is um did the president
- 0:12specifically designate the National
- 0:14Security Council staff for that purpose
- 0:18I think what I have said consistently is
- 0:19that I believe the president has the
- 0:21authority to do what he wants with his
- 0:23own staff that I was a member of his
- 0:25staff that Mr McFarland was and that
- 0:28Admiral Poindexter was and that in
- 0:30pursuing the president's foreign policy
- 0:32goals of support the Nicaraguan
- 0:34resistance he was fully within his
- 0:36rights to send us off to talk to foreign
- 0:38heads of state to seek the assistance of
- 0:41those foreign heads of state to use
- 0:42other than US Government monies and to
- 0:44do so without a finding
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