Pentagon confirms Iran-Contra figure in senior job

[maddezmom]

13 minutes ago



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Earl, who destroyed national security documents during the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal, is working as chief of staff to acting Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, the Pentagon said on Monday.


Earl destroyed and stole national security documents while working for Lt. Col. Oliver North during a secret arms deal with Iran in which the United States passed money from those weapons sales to Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua, according to a report to Congress by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed Earl was a senior England aide, a fact first reported in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. He added, "I wonder why it's an issue now."

"It was a long time ago," Whitman said. "He has served ably for many years in the department and in industry."

Earl was granted immunity for his testimony in the Iran-Contra scandal and was never prosecuted.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050711/pl_nm/arms_irancontra_dc_1

[merwin]

1. I murdered someone 20 years ago. I haven't murdered anyone since,

so why is it an issue?

Numbnuts.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Hey it worked for Don King

Another Bush supporter by the way.

Don

[UpInArms]

2. Iran-Contra retreads

Richard Armitage
John Negroponte
Otto Reich
John Bolton
Elliot Abrams
Colin Powell
John Poindexter

Let the pedaphiles run the day care center :banghead:

[mom cat]

7. Scream!

[UpInArms]

8. been "screaming" for a while now

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/03/29_lies.html

excerpt:

There was no "scandal" when key figures, John Negroponte (complicit in the Honduran Death Squads), Richard Armitage (linked to illegal arms transfers and CIA drug-running operations), Otto Reich (propaganda operative), John Poindexter (convicted of conspiracy {obstruction of inquiries and proceedings, false statements, falsification, destruction and removal of documents}; two counts of obstruction of Congress and two counts of false statements) of the Iran-Contra Affair have re-appeared in official governmental positions by appointment by George Walker Bush, the sitting Republican President, the son of the former Republican President, George Herbert Walker Bush, for whom these men worked.

[mom cat]

12. Now that was a real scream! I think I rattled the neighbors. Thank you so

much for the link. I have it stored now in my Favorites.

[applegrove]

4. Like I say - there are only a few dozen of them. They are desperate.

Seems neocons is not a growing movement.

[sonicx]

5. "Who cares if I raped someone a decade ago..."

"I'm a good guy now!"

:sarcasm:

[daleo]

6. He stole and destroyed national security documents

Now he is chief of staff to the Deputy Defense Secretary? The level of corruption is mind boggling.

[dmr]

15. But if that were you or me

we'd never get our foot in the front door! Even for lessor crimes, we'd never pass the vetting process.

Such high moral and patriotic values, these guys. :sarcasm:

[paineinthearse]

9. 3rd nomination

Another example of PNAC promoting its own.

[wallwriter]

10. This will be Karl Rove in 10 - 15 years...

[Rose Siding]

11. Then I guess Rove as deputy chief of staff is no big deal

:grr:

I can't BELIEVE the release of this RANDOM tidbit isn't part of Operation Noble Treason For the Greater Good, aka damage control.

[powwowdancer]

13. Pentagon confirms Iran-Contra figure in senior job

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Earl, who destroyed national security documents during the 1980s
Iran-Contra scandal, is working as chief of staff to acting Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, the
Pentagon said on Monday.

Earl destroyed and stole national security documents while working for Lt. Col. Oliver North during a secret arms deal with Iran in which the United States passed money from those weapons sales to Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua, according to a report to Congress by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed Earl was a senior England aide, a fact first reported in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. He added, "I wonder why it's an issue now."

"It was a long time ago," Whitman said. "He has served ably for many years in the department and in industry."

Bushco is scraping the bottom of the barrel... again

:dem:
powwowdancer out

[WhiteTara]

14. *co certainly "restored" dignity and honor

to the wh! Indeed why should anyone care now. May they all rot in hell.
Screaming as loud as I can

[MaineDem]

16. Kick (nt)

[Straight Shooter]

17. WSJ belittled Fitzgerald's qualifications because he investigated the mob.

Wall Street Journal said Fitzgerald (prosecutor in Plame case) was not the man for the job because he made his bones investigating organized crime.

Maybe WSJ should connect some dots between Iran-Contra and the current neocon influence over the White House, and exhale with a great big "DUH."

[Festivito]

18. Is Poindexter still in charge of our information transfers? nt.