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Justice Department Official Who Resigned in Protest in ’80s Dies at 83
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Arnold I. Burns was a top Justice Department official in the 1980s when he and others resigned in protest of Attorney General Edwin Meese III’s handling of Iran contra and a number of other issues. Burns died of cardiac arrest and complications from Parkinson’s disease, the New York Times reports. He was…