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Tower Commission
The Tower Commission was commissioned on 26 November 1986 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in response to the Iran Contra scandal. Reagan appointed Republican and former Senator John Tower of Texas, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft.
The Commission's report, published on 26 February 1987, concluded that CIA Director William Casey, who supported the Iran-Contra arrangement, should have taken over the operation and made the President aware of the risks and notified Congress as legally required.〔Fox Butterfield, ''New York Times'', 28 February 1987, (THE WHITE HOUSE CRISIS; Tower Commission Feared Analysis Was Compromised )〕 The Commission's work was continued by the Congressional Committees Investigating The Iran-Contra Affair, which were formed in January 1987 and published a report in November 1987; and by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, appointed 1 December 1986 and publishing a final report in 1993.
==Process==
The Commission began its work on 1 December 1986, and its report was published on 26 February 1987. The Commission had no powers to subpoena documents, compel testimony, or grant immunity from prosecution.〔Alan A. Block, "(The Origins of IRAN-CONTRA: Lessons from the Durrani Affair )", p2; in Frank Bovenkerk and Michael Levi (eds, 2007), ''The Organized Crime Community: Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block'', Springer〕 The Commission report described its purpose in the following way: "The President directed the board to examine the proper role of the National Security Council staff in national security operations, including the arms transfers to Iran. The President made clear that he wanted ''all the facts to come out.'' The board was not, however, called upon to assess individual culpability or be the final arbiter of the facts. These tasks have been properly left to others. Indeed, the short deadline set by the President for completion of the board's work and its limited resources precluded a separate and thorough field investigation. Instead, the board has examined the events surrounding the transfer of arms to Iran as a principal case study in evaluating the operation of the National Security Council in general and the role of the N.S.C. staff in particular."〔''New York Times'', 27 February 1987, (THE WHITE HOUSE CRISIS; EXCERPTS FROM THE TOWER COMMISSION'S REPORT PART I: Introduction )〕
The Commission took testimony from 86 witnesses, and was able to retrieve backup copies from an NSC mainframe of some files which NSC staff had sought to delete.〔Susan F. Rasky, ''New York Times'', 3 March 1987, (WASHINGTON TALK: THE TOWER COMMISSION; THOSE WHO LABORED ON THE REPORT )〕 There was some debate about whether to publish the Commission's detailed chronology of events, but with the removal of some details of sourcing, methods and names of contacts, it was ultimately published as an annex to the Commission's report.〔Susan F. Rasky, ''New York Times'', 23 February 1987, (TOWER COMMISSION FINISHING REPORT )〕
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