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Article: Senate panel delays Gates hearings by two months
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 17, 1991
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WASHINGTON -- The Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday
delayed for two months its confirmation hearings of Robert M. Gates
to head the Central Intelligence Agency while it delves more deeply
into questions about Gates' role in the Iran-contra affair.
While saying that the committee has not uncovered evidence to
threaten Gates' confirmation, the chairmen said committee members
need time to pursue the possibility that Gates knew more about the
diversion of arms sales profits to assist the US-backed Nicaraguan
rebels.
Although President Bush criticized the Intelligence Committee on
Friday for not holding hearings immediately, the White House
concurred with the decision yesterday to ...