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[My Blog] Episode 41 - Chenquieh! « My Blog: It involved several members of the Reagan Administration who engaged in the sale of arms to Iran, an avowed enemy, and used proceeds from the sales to illegally fund the Contras, a right-wing guerrilla group in Nicaragua. President Reagan appeared before the American public and told a national television audience that the United States had not sold weapons to Iran.

[FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right] FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: History May -- or May Not ...: In a November 1953 speech that was carried on national television, McCarthy began by praising the Eisenhower Administration for removing "1,456 Truman holdovers who were [...] gotten rid of because of Communist connections and activities or perversion." He then went on to complain that John Paton Davies, Jr. was still "on the payroll after eleven months of the Eisenhower Administration," even though Davies had actually been dismissed three weeks earlier, and repeated an unsubstantiated accusation that Davies had tried to "put Communists and espionage agents in key spots in the Central Intelligence Agency." In the same speech, he criticized Eisenhower for not doing enough to secure the release of missing American pilots shot down over China during the Korean War.[52]

[Fairchild Bibliographies] TERRORISM 2007: Requesting the President and Directing the Secretary of Defense to Transmit to the House of Representatives All Information in the Possession of the President or the Secretary of Defense Relating to the Collection of Intelligence Information Pertaining to Persons Inside the United States without Obtaining Court-Ordered Warrants Authorizing the Collection of Such Information and Relating to the Policy of the United States with Respect to the Gathering of Counterterrorism Intelligence within the United States. Report.

[Obscurantist] Bohemian Grove Membership List :: Obscurantist: Co., after this firm and other financial enterprises were required under the Banking Act of 1933 to choose between their deposit-banking and their investment businesses. Elected a director of the General Electric Company in 1934, and would be affiliated with this firm until his death.

[Chiefbigfaith's Weblog] 3 YEARS IN THE NEWS BY PASTOR KOK III 5/14/06 « Chiefbigfaith's Weblog: The arms sold to Iran apparently were given to right-wing contra guerilla in Nicaragua which led to the involvement of Oliver North, Reagan contended he had no idea what Oliver North was doing. He left .

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] The brief version of what I have found about the causes of the ...: The Commission had interviewed 80 witnesses to the scheme,[1] including Reagan, and two of the arms trade middlemen: Manucher Ghorbanifar and Adnan Khashoggi.[45] The 200 page report was the most comprehensive of any released,[45] criticizing the actions of Oliver North, John Poindexter, Caspar Weinberger, and others. It determined that President Reagan did not have knowledge of the extent of the program, especially not the diversion of funds to the Contras,[1] although it argued that the President ought to have had better control of the National Security Council staff.[1] The report heavily criticized Reagan for not properly supervising his subordinates or being aware of their actions.[1] A major result of the Tower Commission was the consensus that Reagan should have listened to his National Security Advisor more, thereby placing more power in the hands of that chair.[1]

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : Attention Supreme Court: Kenyon issued a court order to the Clinton Administration in the Case of Fairchild v Robert Reich Secretary of Labor (#CV92-5765 Kn). The order demanded that Secretary Reich and the Clinton Administration force 100 west coast shipping companies to develop an Affirmative Action plan to stop discrimination against, African Americans, Hispanics, females and disabled workers.

[Mideast Outpost] Mideast Outpost: OUTPOST Archives: 18) to be offering “progress on the Israel-Palestinian front” (aid to the Hamas government, an “international peace conference”) as an inducement for European and Arab countries to hold firm against Iran’s nuclear program and support “the war on terror.” Philip Zelikow, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Rice, explained the “thinking” (if one can use that word for something so addlebrained) behind the policy: “For the Arab moderates and the Europeans, some sense of progress and momentum on the Arab-Israeli dispute is the sine qua non for them to cooperate actively with the United States on the things that we care about.” (This strongly suggests that Israel is not numbered in “the things that we care about.”) If this goes forward, U.S. policy could be summed up as “Feed Israel to the Terrorists to Win the War on Terror.”

[TeamShelby.com] Who was born in 1959? - Team Shelby: Qasim pulled Iraq out of the Baghdad Pact after the United States signed bilateral cooperation agreements with Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. A number of assassination attempts on Qasim failed including an attempt that included Baath Socialist Party activist Saddam Hussein.

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