WASHINGTON - One of the prosecutors who investigated the Iran- Contra affair concluded two decades ago that neither Ronald Reagan nor George H.W. Bush was criminally liable in the scandal that tarnished the presidencies of both men, according to reports made public Friday. Associate independent counsel Christian Mixter reached that conclusion in 1991 even though he found that President Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment sold to Iran in the arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86. In a separate report on Bush, Mixter wrote that the then-vice president was chairman of a committee that recommended mining the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983.
WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen. John McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra- right-wing death squads in Central America in the 1980s. The U.S. Council for World Freedom also aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. That landed the group in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair and in legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which revoked the charitable organization's tax exemption.
On Nov. 25, 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels. On this date:
WASHINGTON - Criminal defendants of all stripes in national security cases, including Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North in the Iran- Contra affair and al-Qaida terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, have long sought to work government secrets into their defense. The hope is the prosecutors will skip a trial rather than expose sensitive information in court.
The year 1986 was not a very good year. Oil prices fell more than 50 percent, from $27 per barrel to less than $10, leaving Oklahoma's economy in a mess. On Aug. 20, Edmond postal employee Patrick Sherrill killed 14 co-workers, then committed suicide. Nationally, it was the year the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated just after launch, Oliver North and Fawn Hall shredded Iran-Contra Affair documents, Pan Am Flight 73 was hijacked, and Lady Gaga was born in New York. Oklahoma's economic and urban development woes led six people to join forces in an effort to find a solution, a way to step off the treadmill. Hershel Lamirand, Clayton Taylor and David Miller of Oklahoma City met with Dale Teeters, Rusty Richards and Suzie Woody of Tulsa at the only logical place: Stroud's Quarter Horse...
[...] Tanenhaus argues that each of three modern Republican presidents with close relationships to the modern conservative movement-Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush-felt no such obligation and indeed carried out plans (in the Watergate affair, Iran-Contra, and secret surveillance and torture policies) that they deemed "too urgent to be trusted to the traditional channels of government." Because the modern conservative movement has always seen the republic in peril and itself as the only reliable savior, it came to place allegiance to the movement and its ideology above all else.
Bloggers scavenging the Internet in July for scandals about Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. thought they had red meat. On July 20, Secrecy News, a Web publication of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, reported that Judge Roberts was involved in the Iran-Contra affair. New Media had bested Old Media again. Secrecy News uncovered chinks in Mr. Roberts's armor that NBC, ABC, CBS, the New York Times and The Washington Post had missed.
... Church committee hearings, the IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR, the Aldrich Ames scandal, and the end of the COLD...
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