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Andre II Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-31-08 02:31 AM
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Lee Hamilton is your man!
Revealing article about Hamilton's cover-up quaity.
(Many thanks to ma 2007)

As veteran journalist Robert Parry has persuasively argued at Consortiumnews.com, the Bush family name squeaked through the 80’s and early 90’s essentially mud-free, only because:

--On Christmas Eve 1992, lame-duck President George H.W. Bush pardoned six of his earlier co-conspirators in the Iran-Contra affair (the Reagan-Bush White House’s diversion of profits from illegal arms sales to Iran to bankroll Nicaragua’s contra terrorists in defiance of a congressional ban). Until he was pardoned that day, former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger might have bought clemency by testifying against co-conspirator Bush.

-- After Bush left office on Jan. 20, 1993, President Bill Clinton (along with other senior Democrats, including Hamilton) cut short a congressional inquiry into Bush’s secret billion-dollar loans to Saddam Hussein and did nothing to help Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh penetrate the Iran-Contra cover-up.

--Hamilton also soft-pedaled two key congressional inquiries. The first investigated the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987 and the second examined allegations that the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign team had struck a treasonous deal with the hostage-holding Iranian government while Jimmy Carter was still president.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2008/032608c.html
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seatnineb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-31-08 05:53 AM
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1. Nice find Andre(and MA2007)...thanks! n/t
Edited on Mon Mar-31-08 05:53 AM by seatnineb
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Diane_nyc Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-07-08 01:44 PM
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2. Thanks for posting this.
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