CAMPAIGN ’88 : Bush an Issue in Trial
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An attorney pressing a suit in Miami accusing Contras and U.S officials of running a guns-for-drugs smuggling ring accused some of the defendants of “running covert operations for Bush” when he was CIA director in 1976.
Daniel Sheehan, an attorney for the Washington-based Christic Institute, said Friday that some potential witnesses feared retribution if they testified about the operations.
But defense attorney Theodore Klein, who represents three of the 29 defendants, dismissed the Bush-CIA connection as a ploy by Sheehan, saying Sheehan cannot “provide a single witness” to prove the case.
“I don’t know where George Bush comes in all of a sudden,” Klein told the judge. “I think it bears witness to their political motivation.”
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