The Iran-contra scandal, 25 years later

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In 1990s, U.S. prosecutors assessed "criminal liabilty" of Reagan, George H.W. Bush

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Who would be surprised to learn that a Congressman named Richard Cheney used his role as head of the minority side of the Congressional Iran-Contra investigating commission to develop his theory that the Executive has unilateral powers to do whatever the hell he wants?

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The first President Bush had publicly portrayed himself as “out-of-the-loop” on both the Iran and Contra operations—and indeed had fostered that image of innocence throughout the 1988 presidential campaign. The 89-page Mixter report is nothing less than a chronicle of mendacity on Bush’s part. The report reveals for the first time that in 1983, Bush chaired a secret “Special Situation Group” that had “recommended specific covert operations” including “the mining of Nicaragua’s rivers and harbors.” Between 1984 and 1986, he attended no less than a dozen meetings at which illicit assistance to the contras was discussed.


http://www.salon.com/2011/11/25/the_iran_contra_scandal_25_years_later/singleton/

More at the link.

[krucial]

1. D cheney

Actually D Cheney is one of the most evil man ever to be on American Soil.

If there is such thing as a devil,he is close to it

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. Reagan should have been impeached

Instead, the Democrats gave a sickly, mentally lost old man a pass.

As if the GOP would ever do that.

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3. Anyone who was there back then knows that it was bush I running

the foreign policy show along with the CIA. Same lies and criminal actions as the idiot son used. Same I am not in the loop cover. These men are all criminals and there is nothing going to be done about it. If we did do something it would be a confession that our nation is out of control. Sure we all know it is but so far no one has been willing to display the evidence.




Edited to add that this is the way the corporations run this country when they have a gop president and it is why they select people they can manipulate including raygun who was not capable of being president. The crop of candidates they have now are a perfect foil for what the corporations want.