President urges prosecution
The situation is shrouded in legal subtleties, but that did not stop Jimmy Carter, who is no lawyer, from barging right into it. Strolling to the back of Air Force One on a flight over the Rockies, the President responded garrulously to reporters' questions about former Attorney General Ramsey Clark's trip to Iran despite Carter's ban on travel there. Said Carter: "My inclination is, within the bounds of the law, to go ahead and prosecute both Clark and the others who went against my directive."
Only two days earlier, one reporter...
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