Cheney and Rumsfeld pressured CIA to mislead Congress in the 1970s, too

[babsbunny]

Cheney and Rumsfeld pressured CIA to mislead Congress in the 1970s, too


http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4736.shtml

By Margie Burns
Online Journal Contributing Writer


May 27, 2009, 00:21


The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President Gerald Ford and Rumsfeld was Ford’s secretary of defense.

Cheney, having held a series of positions alongside Rumsfeld -- starting under him in the Nixon administration -- also became campaign manager for Ford’s reelection campaign. George H. W. Bush was head of the CIA, appointed by Jerry Ford when Ford switched Rumsfeld from White House chief of staff to secretary of defense.*

The mission of the three men was to protect the Ford presidency and some elements in the CIA from the Church Committee. According to researcher Lamar Waldron, they succeeded.

Waldron is co-author, with Thomas Hartmann, of Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, an exhaustively documented 800 pages compiling more than three decades of research into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. In two recent interviews of more than an hour each, Waldron discussed how much some things haven’t changed since before Watergate.

[blm]

1. I don't think Poppy Bush needed much prodding from Cheney and Rumsfeld - they work for HIM and

the global fascist agenda he and his father envisioned long ago.

[L. Coyote]

2. Remember CIA Director William Casey and the Iran-Contra War. They don't just lie,

they run wars illegally, killing and maiming people even after Congress passes a law explicitly to put a stop to it!

Boland Amendment
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boland_Amendment

The Boland Amendment was the name given to three U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, all aimed at limiting US government assistance to the rebel Contras in Nicaragua. The first Boland Amendment was to the House Appropriations Bill of 1982, which was attached as a rider to the Defense Appropriations Act of 1983, named for the Massachusetts Democrat, Representative Edward Patrick Boland, who authored it. .........

William J. Casey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Casey

Casey was campaign manager of the successful presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan in 1980,<4> and served on the transition team following the election. After Reagan took office, Reagan named Casey to the post of Director of Central Intelligence. ......

Casey oversaw the re-expansion of the Intelligence Community to funding and human resource levels greater than those existing before the preceeding Carter Administration; in particular, he increased levels within the CIA. During his tenure, restrictions were lifted on the use of the CIA to directly and covertly influence the internal and foreign affairs of countries relevant to American policy.

This period of the Cold War saw an increase in the Agency's global, anti-Soviet activities.

Notably, Casey oversaw covert assistance to the mujahadeen resistance in Afghanistan, with a budget of over $1 billion ........

Hours before Casey was scheduled to testify before Congress related to his knowledge of Iran-Contra, he was reported to have been rendered incapable of speech, ... According to Woodward, when Casey was asked if Casey knew about the diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras, "His head jerked up hard. He stared, and finally nodded yes."

[Echo In Light]

4. I wish there could be a comprehensive, nationally televised program on Iran/Contra

But here's a good start:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8476042566108039966

[Cybergata]

13. Billy Moyer's Secret Government

I think people should watch and read the following every ten years. No, nothing has changed since Watergate!

Video at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3505348655137118430
Book at:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Moyers/SecretGovt_Moyers.html

[Echo In Light]

16. Thanks

[Octafish]

3. Lots more examples. Google: Richard-Barlow + Cheney

It's the story of how Cheney wanted to sell F-16s so bad to Pakistan, he didn't give a darn if they could be used to deliver nukes or not. Dick the Sneer ruined Barlow's career for wanting to bring up the sale's nuclear proliferation angle before Congress.

[aquart]

5. Aww, it was a tradition with them.

[bobthedrummer]

6. K&R+ a related thread from March 2008

"The Pike Committee"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2990965

[robertpaulsen]

7. Peter Dale Scott covers some of this in The Road to 9/11

Chapter Three: The Pivotal Presidency goes into many details of Cheney/Rumsfeld machinations under the Ford administration. Highly recommended!

[spanone]

8. let us not forget that poppy bu$h was DIRECTOR OF THE CIA

[H2O Man]

9. Take it a step further.

In December of 1974, the New York Times published an article by Seymour Hersh, detailing the series of operations by the CIA known as "the family jewels." It was at a time when the American public was not only aware of government corruption in high places, but had begun to connect the dots, including the deaths of JFK, MLK, and RFK.

The new head of the CIA at the time was William Colby. He was deemed as being a security risk, because of his willingness to open files for Congressional oversight. Henry Kissinger authored the infamous memo to Ford, saying that the results "could end up worse for the country than Watergate." (Washington Post; 6-22-07)

The Ford administration tried to do "damage control" with the Rockefeller Commission. Congress was not satisfied, and began the Church Committee (Senate) and Pike Committee (House). Due to concerns about Colby, Rumsfeld and Cheney had him removed, and replaced with Poppy.

[NNN0LHI]

11. That all seems like it was just yesterday

Seymour Hersh must never fly on small planes.

Don

[H2O Man]

14. It was one of

the most important sequence of events in our era. It led directly to so much of what we are struggling against today.

[Wednesdays]

10. K&R

:kick:

[slipslidingaway]

12. knr nt

[kenfrequed]

15. Yeah both of the bastards were up to their eyeballs

There are videos of Rummy scaring the hell out of the press corp with regard to the supposed soviet threat. These jerks were also tight with the team B flunkies that lied completely to us about the cold war. Any serious journalist would have compared the Neo Con friends list to the phoney analysts and defence contractor approved policy wonks that made up these Papa Bush bastards and might have realized we were being snowed in the run up to gulf war 2003.