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Article: Deleted Iran-Deal Matter Faults White House, CIA; Statutes Were Violated, Hill Staff Concluded
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- The Washington Post
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- January 12, 1987
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In the course of the secret arms transactions with Iran, the
White House and Central Intelligence Agency violated several key
statutes and regulations, and consistently failed to monitor the
program adequately, according to a set of conclusions drafted by the
staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence but later
deleted by the full committee.
The findings, which were dropped last Monday when the committee
voted 7 to 6 not to release its report, declared that:
. The executive branch did not comply with the Intelligence
Oversight Act of 1980, which requires the president to "fully inform
the {House and Senate} Select Committees in a timely fashion" of
foreign intelligence ...