"I do not recall having read the specific words that have now mushroomed into importance." That was the all too typical explanation by Attorney General Edwin Meese of a memo he received suggesting a way to get Israel to guarantee the safety of a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. Last week Meese's lawyers released the declassified 1985 memo from E. Robert Wallach, the Attorney General's former personal attorney. What his Swiss-cheese memory had failed to retain was alarming.
Wallach wrote that Israel "will receive somewhere between $65-70 million a year for ten years" and "a portion of these funds will go directly...
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