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@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ In 1992, Hamilton co-chaired the House October Surprise Task Force alongside Rep
The Task Force's January 1993 final report found "no credible evidence" of such a deal. However, the investigation has been criticized on several grounds. A U.S. Embassy Madrid cable indicating [[William J. Casey]] was in Madrid in summer 1980 "for purposes unknown" was withheld by Bush administration officials and never provided to the Task Force. The Russian intelligence report confirming Casey's Madrid and Paris meetings with Iranians arrived in January 1993 after the Task Force had closed, and was buried in raw files until journalist [[Robert Parry]] discovered it later.[^2]
In 1992 Hamilton selected E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. as chief counsel. Hamilton selected him in March 1992, saying then that he sought "someone that had a large amount of international experience." Asked about the lawyer's 1985 legal opinion on a contra arms shipment in a May 29, 1992 newspaper account, Hamilton said he would "investigate all aspects of criticisms of staff, including Larry or anybody else."[^3]
In 1992 Hamilton selected E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. as chief counsel. Hamilton selected him in March 1992, saying then that he sought "someone that had a large amount of international experience." Asked in a May 29, 1992 *Hartford Courant* account about a 1985 legal opinion on a contra arms shipment that the paper attributed to the lawyer, Hamilton said he would "investigate all aspects of criticisms of staff, including Larry or anybody else."[^3]
Barcella told Parry that substantial new evidence arrived in the final month of the inquiry and that he asked Hamilton to extend it three months. Barcella said Hamilton, recognizing how nasty the Republican reaction would be, turned down the request.[^4] In Meldon's 2008 article, Barcella is quoted as saying that Hamilton cited the complexity of getting the task force reauthorized in a new Congress.[^5] Hamilton told Parry in 2010 that he might have explained the problem of the authorization running out at the end of the session: "All I could have done is go before the next Congress and request reauthorization."[^6] Hamilton told Parry in 2010 that he had no recollection of such a proposal, and in 2011 that he had no recollection of the request.[^7][^8] Parry also wrote that Barcella recommended the extension to Hamilton, and that Hamilton did not extend the task force.[^5]