MEMBER BLOG TAG: oliver north
| Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:00PM | | | | Drugs: The CIA Comes Clean | Tags: Reagan, Oliver North, Ed Meese, Daniel Ortega, Gary Webb, William Casey, Medellin Drug Cartel
| | | | In 1989, newly elected president, Bush 1 pardoned Secretary of the Army Caspar Weinberger and other Iran/contra defendants ending the investigation of Iran/contra crimes. Stonewalling, perjury, obstructing justice, shredding evidence, retaliating against truth tellers had proved to be effective.
The Kerry subcommittee reported: "the saga of Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the United States...It is clear that each US government agency which had a relationship with Noriega turned a blind eye to his corruption and drug dealing, even as he was emerging as a key player on behalf of the Medellin Cartel. Manuel Noriega was allowed to establish "the hemisphere's first ‘narcokleptocracy.’”
According to Noriega on March 18, 1988, he met with US State Department officials... | | | | | | | Wednesday, August 5, 2009 12:40PM | | | | Drugs: Nancy Said No, Ronnie Said Y | Tags: narcotics, contras, Reagan, terrorism, CIA, National Security Council, Oliver North, Saddam Hussein, Battalion 316,
| | | | When Ronald Reagan died, his complicit enablers in the media lauded him for his myth-making “city on a hill,” ignoring the condemnation of the International Court of Justice that America had hidden its light under a bushel of terrorism. David Podvin commented, “On air and in print, the truth about the fortieth president was distorted beyond recognition by commentators determined to transform a bad leader (and even worse human being) into a hallowed icon.”
Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker wrote that Reagan “undermined environmental, civil-rights, and labor protections, neglected the AIDS epidemic, and packed the courts with reactionary mediocrities. He made callousness respectable.” Others pointed out that wealth was concentrated in the richest few, Reagan gave amnesty to almost 3 million illegal immigrants to... | | | | | |
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