Kerry Got Anti-Terrorism Chair After Fears He'd Impeach Reagan

[DrFunkenstein]

Suddenly, Kerry's theories didn't seem so far-fetched. He hoped this would be his moment to help lead the investigation into this extraordinary episode. The Iran-contra scandal was the top story in town, and there was worried talk in the halls of Congress that the United States might suffer another failed presidency.

But when congressional leaders chose the members of the elite Iran-contra committee, Kerry was left off. Those selected were consensus-politicians, not bomb-throwers.

The feeling among a disappointed Kerry and his staff was that the committee members were chosen to put a lid on things. "He was told early on they were not going to put him on it," Winer recalls. "He was too junior and too controversial . . .. They were concerned about the survival of the republic."

Even some Democrats "thought John was a little hotter than they would like," says Rosenblith.

As a consolation prize, the Democratic leadership gave Kerry chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations and a charter to dig into the contra-drug connection.

While disappointed, Kerry stuck with his investigation and the subcommittee published a report in 1989 that concluded the CIA and other US agencies had turned a blind eye to drug trafficking occurring on the fringes of the contra network.

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

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Jeepers, Scoob!

[displacedtexan]

1. i did not know this.

i always wondered why that investigation died on the vine. it figures. drug trafficking is only a crime if you're poor and (insert minority nomenclature here).

[tom_paine]

2. Anyone who watched Jerry Nields? and the rest of the Dems

could see that the fix was already in.

Just part of the embryonic double-standard that the Busheviks were growing through application of Goebbels v2.0:

The Democrats feared to impeach Raygun because he was a "popular" Presidents (this was back in the Days when Amerika was America and had elected Fuhrers). So they "took a dive".

Strangely enough, when the Busheviks were "impeaching" Clinton over essentially trumped-up charges (in which the conspiracy to get Clinton violated far more RICO laws than Clinton violated perjury laws), and he was enjoying two-thirds approval, they felt no similar need to "take a dive".

I suppose that's what a Soviet/Nazi-style Party-Loyal Sub-Media & Lie Laundry will do for you...

[Octafish]

3. Kerry can bust the BFEE!

The question is WILL he? I believe the answer is YES, especially if he gets public support. He's got mine because I want to see the Little Turd from Crawford and the criminal enterprise he fronts for frog marched straight to jail.

To go along with Dr. Funkenstein's nice work, some background on the BCCI affair — a crooked bank which bribed government officials around the world and across the USA — principals and players of which are still around today, "helping" the BFEE spend your US Treasury's treasure and your grandchildren's allowance:

B.C.C.I.: Bank of Crooks and Criminals International
U.S GOVERNMENT ONE OF ITS BIGGEST CUSTOMERS

by Brian Downing Quig

EXCERPT...

Here are some excerpts from this TIME article and then some conclusions that will never be found in TIME. All quotes here will be from this article.

"B.C.C.I. is the largest corporate criminal enterprise ever, the biggest Ponzi scheme, the most pervasive money-laundering operation and financial supermarket ever created for the likes of Manuel Noriega, Ferdinand Marcos, Saddam Hussein and the Columbian drugs lords."

A significant part of this story involves B.C.C.I.'s "stealth-like invasion of the U.S. banking industry by secretly buying FIRST AMERICAN BANKSHARES --- whose chairman is Clark Clifford". It is known from Col. L. Fletcher Prouty that Clark Clifford was the attorney who drafted the original charter for the CIA at the direction of John Foster and Allen Dulles and the original "Secret Team".

B.C.C.I. maintained what its insiders called a "black network" which was engaged in international bribery, blackmail, and assassination of government officials at the highest levels. The CIA used B.C.C.I. to facilitate funding of the Contras, illegal arms sales to Iran and Iraq as well as the arms supply to the Afghan resistance. The Justice Department up to four days ago was obstructing the investigation. One bank employee said when B.C.C.I. wanted to make a point, they might send an uncooperative person the severed hand of his brother with the rings still on the fingers. These are powerful charges.

B.C.C.I. maintained accounts for Contra leader Adolfo Calero and Sandanista leader, Daniel Ortega, as well as such disparate figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Adnan Khashoggi, the PLO, the Mossad and the governments of China, Argentina, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Peru. There is a very important lesson to be drawn from the fact that here was this international bank which was facilitating both right-terrorists and left-terrorists. THE RIGHT-TERRORISTS AND THE LEFT TERRORISTS ARE FINANCED AND DIRECTED BY THE SAME INTERESTS!!

CONTINUED...

http://www.dcia.com/bcci.html

[blm]

4. We share the same goals.

I want the BFEE exposed and OVER!

[sangh0]

5. And Kerry's the one who has chance of doing it

Kerry's got the goods!

Kick

[Octafish]

12. Remember RFK's Ripple Effect, DU Friend blm!

Ripple of Hope

"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

— Day of Affirmation Address, University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966

http://www.rfkmemorial.org/RFK/affirmation2.htm

A great speech by a great American. Like you and yours, blm, I miss him so much — and so do our country and our world!

[JohnKleeb]

14. Thats a great Bobby Kennedy quote

I am sad he died too, wasnt alive during his time, but hes on my list of greats. So I am a Kucinich supporter heh but I gotta hand it to Senator Kerry, solid record, honorable man, and more. I have him as my second choice.

[TLM]

6. This argument is crap to me... vote for Kerry, and THEN he'll go after W?

Why hasn't he busted the BFEE over the last f-ing 3 years while the BFEE what robbing us blind.

Has he had the ammo to take them down, but sat on it and let them do all this damage just so he could use the info to help his career and his presidential run. If that's the case, FUCK KERRY!

[Octafish]

7. It would help if the Congress wasn't in Bush's back pocket.

It's hard to get anyone to investigate Bushler's role in 9-11, let alone robbing California blind through ENRON and all its offshore entities without having a Democratic majority.

You must have forgotten.

[sangh0]

8. Where was Dean

in all this time? The info Kerry revealed in public and available to Dean. Why won't Dean run with it? Why is Dean sitting ont his info? FUCK DEAN!!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

10. Dean does not lead on the hard issues

Vt. civil unions proves this. He's a follower- and a "close door and sign the bill" kind of follower at that.

[sangh0]

13. And neither does TLM

at least, it appears that way

[blm]

9. No...Kerry can make the case DURING the election when the focus

is on TWO people, Kerry and Bush.

The public is not focused on Kerry right now, and will not be unless he is the nominee. There is alot of info that needs to be connected for the general public and it will require some time and focus from them and from the media.

[charlie]

11. Yeah, they handed it off to the likes of George Mitchell

and Lee Farkin' Hamilton! Mitchell wrote a book with William Cohen afterward, where they patted themselves on the back for having averted a constitutional crisis. Hamilton avoided incriminating evidence like Kryptonite, letting Dick Cheney drive the House committee into a ditch.

When the 911 team was being assembled, true to my worst fears, those two were offered chair positions. Appalling beyond words....