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The Basic Facts of Iran/contra

The Iran/contra affair concerned two secret Reagan Administration policies whose operations were coordinated by National Security Council staff. The Iran operation involved efforts in 1985 and 1986 to obtain the release of Americans held hostage in the Middle East through the sale of U.S. weapons to Iran, despite an embargo on such sales. The contra operations from 1984 through most of 1986 involved the secret governmental support of contra military and paramilitary activities in Nicaragua, despite congressional prohibition of this support.

The Iran and contra operations were merged when funds generated from the sale of weapons to Iran were diverted to support the contra effort in Nicaragua. Although this ``diversion'' may be the most dramatic aspect of Iran/contra, it is important to emphasize that both the Iran and contra operations, separately, violated United States policy and law.2 The ignorance of the ``diversion'' asserted by President Reagan and his Cabinet officers on the National Security Council in no way absolves them of responsibility for the underlying Iran and contra operations.

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North is a decorated Marine who first gained notoriety for his testimony during the Congressional hearings into the Iran-Contra investigation in the 1980s. ...
North, a decorated platoon leader of Vietnam War, has been the subject of an e-mail rumour that during the Iran-Contra hearings, he told a Senate committee ...
... to be perpetuated through a widely e-mailed document that claims to be a transcript of Mr. North's testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987. ...

Oct. 2, 2008 | In the midst of the Iran-Contra scandal, the late Phil Hartman did a dazzling "Saturday Night Live" Ronald Reagan impersonation in which the ...
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... forward to debating the Democratic nominee on foreign policy, including President Reagan's attempted arms-for-hostages swap in the Iran-Contra affair. ...
... the former White House aide who became the center of the Iran-Contra controversy, in 1943 (age 65); rock singer John Mellencamp in 1951 (age 57); ...
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While presidents have often lied to us - the secret bombing of Cambodia, Iran-Contra, "I never had sexual relations with that woman" - none has mounted such ...
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... and now chief of staff, since he and Cheney teamed up to protect another President -- Ronald Reagan -- from scrutiny during the Iran-Contra scandal. ...
Clinton was saved by the announcement by Iran Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh that he was planning to indict Cap Weinberger, Bush's Defense ...
In the end, 14 people were charged in connection with the Iran-Contra affair. Once Former President George HW Bush took office, he issued pardons for those ...
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... the vicious US-backed military regimes in South America, the Iran-Contra scandals and the decline of traditional American industry all took the shine ...
Quizzed about Bush Sr.'s role in the Iran-Contra cover-up, he told a journalist, "We don't talk about how we make sausage. ...
... and October Surprise (Tudor, 1989), the first book to reveal the true origins of the Iran side of the Iran/Contra scandal. By insisting that Bruce Ivins ...
... surprise to generations of Americans who have watched congressional hearings into CIA abuse (the Church hearings), Iran-Contra, the US Attorney firings, ...
... 1991 of unlawfully withholding information from Congress in its investigation of the Iran-Contra affair; pardoned in 1992 by President George HW Bush. ...
Sullivan, a well-known Washington lawyer who represented Oliver North in the Iran-Contra case, argued that since Stevens was more than 3000 miles away in ...
... Iran-Contra, the US Attorney firings, and countless other executive 'decisions and actions' that the people's elected representatives believed should be ...
... committees with subpoena powers of this sort have previously been formed to scrutinize crises such as the Watergate scandal and the Iran-Contra affair. ...
... Lee Hamilton, who stopped the Iran Contra investigation before it could lead to the impeachment of Reagan; Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein's chief weapons ...
You might remember his byline on Post stories about Marion Barry and Iran-Contra. But he left journalism in 1990 -- way before leaving journalism was the ...
Iran-Contra...Again? - Venezuela, Russia and Iran all meddle with Panama's capitalist oasis . Panama Bubble Bursts - The US economy slides deeper, ...
Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency ...
The infamous "Willie Horton" ad accomplished a number of feats: It wiped then-President Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal, in which the president traded arms to ...
In 1980 the surprise centered upon the Iran hostage crisis, in 1992 it was Iran contra, in 2000 it was George W. Bush's drunk driving arrest, and in 2004 it ...
During the 1980s, Biden opposed aid to the Nicaraguan Contras and vigorously challenged Reagan administration officials during the Iran-Contra hearings (in ...
... who pleaded guilty to essentially lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair, to any position that required confirmation (especially as long as ...
... the Iran-Contra affair, and the host of relatively mediocre musicians generating hit singles by fucking around with synthesizers and drum machines. ...
Not since he became famous during the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987 has Brendan Sullivan, now 66, had a chance to perform before a home audience. ...
He spoke in the dizzying and knowing fashion of a reporter who's covered nearly four decades of news - from the Iran-Contra affair to sexual abuse in the ...
... fact had little problem conducting business during the Iran-Iraq war in what was part of the fiasco that has since been dubbed the Iran-Contra Affair. ...
... Brendan V. Sullivan Jr. of Williams & Connolly LLP, has represented several high-profile clients, including Oliver North during the Iran-Contra scandal. ...
... between June 1985 and September 1986 in support of the secret arms sales deal between the US and Iran that later became known as the Iran-Contra affair. ...
... retired astronaut Bruce McCandless and John Poindexter, a national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan and a figure in the Iran-Contra scandal. ...
... "Bud" McFarlane -- two consecutive national security advisers serving under President Ronald Reagan who both played a role in the Iran-Contra affair. ...

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