the committees about it and gave them transcripts of relevant conversations but it was between william casey and john poindexter late 1986. casey was in the overseas station and poindexter was at the white house. so during his testimony he was confronted by the chief senate investigator. and poindexter says i have no idea where that came from my did not know what was recorded than that set off in the media because it was thought william casey who had a reputation to be devious may be constructed a tape system that no one knew about. it was huge. >> host: and you were asked to tell the staff that the member could continue in this is what you write. it boils down to things that you were asked to do at the time. you said holding the phone i would just take a breath and close my eyes and make a judgment call head severed agree to do disclosure or tails to risk having the agency accused? for the first of my career i was alone on the high wire without and that. >> host: it seems to be a pattern. >> guest: to me when i was tempting fate on story short the committee staff implored me to declassify s

this set off a tempest at the hearing and in the media at the time because it was thought that william casey had a reputation of being widely and devious and maybe he constructed this nixonian tape system that no one knew about. i mean it was huge. >> host: you are being asked to tell the staff or if it was okay that the member could continue. asking questions and this is what you write because i think this kind of oils down sort of a lot of things you are asked to do at the time. you said holding the phone, i would take a breath close my eyes and make a judgment call. heads i would agree to the disclosure of some sensitive secret and tales i risk have an agency obstructing congressional investigation in the public's right to know. for the first time in my career i was alone on a high-wire without a net. this seems to be a pattern. >> guest: yeah. the prc 250 as i mentioned the book to me that was when i was tempting fate. long story short the committee staff declassified so that they get publicly explained that know this is what the system was four. the committee was fine with it. >> host:

about it and when given transcripts of the relevant conversations, the conversation was about william casey and john poindexter in the late 1986 as the iran contra was unraveling. they were in one of the overseas stations and calling poindexter at the white house and kc was at court, so during the testimony, poindexter was compounded by ideally that was the chief investigator for the committee and he was basically reading him a transcript and poindexter was taken aback and he said i have no idehad noidea that i was beid and of course this sends off a tempest that the hearing and in the media at the time because it was thought that he had a reputation of being devious and somehow maybe had a tape system that no one knew about. so it was huge. >> host: and you were being asked to told a staffer if it was okay that they could continue asking questions and this is what you write because i think this kind of boy goes down a lot of things you were asked to do at the time. you said holding the phone i would hold my breath, close my eyes and take a judgment call and agree to the disclosure of the s

the conversation question was between william casey and john poindexter in late 1986 as the contra was unraveling. casey was in one of our overseas station, poindexter was at the white house. and so, during his testimony, was suddenly confronted by a poet arthur wyman, the chief senate investigator for the committee. it was basically reading had the transcript and poindexter was taken aback. they set off tempt us at the hearing at a reputation of being widely devious. they have the smithsonian keep system that no one knew about. the member could continue at the questions. this is what you write because i think this kind of boils down sort of a lot of things you are asked to do at the time. he said holding the phone i would just take a breath, close my eyes and make a judgment call. i would agree to the disclosure of some sensitive secret tales, having the agency accused of obstruct been the investigation and the public right to know. for the first time in my career i was alone on a high wire without a net. that seems to be a pattern. >> guest: yeah, and i mentioned in the vote to me th

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