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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 25. november 2011 / Timeline November 25, 2011
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11/25/2011
IRAN CONTRA AT 25:: REAGAN AND BUSH 'CRIMINAL LIABILITY'
EVALUATIONS
Presidential 'Exposure' and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor
Reports
Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to
Iran
Bush Chaired Secret Committee that Recommended Mining Harbors of
Nicaragua
Washington D.C.: President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance
about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in
1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush chaired a committee
that recommended the mining of the harbors of Nicaragua in 1983,
according to previously secret Independent Counsel assessments of
"criminal liability" on the part of the two former leaders posted
today by the National Security Archive.
Twenty-Five years after the advent of the "Iran-Contra affair," the
two comprehensive "Memoranda on Criminal Liability of Former
President Reagan and of President Bush" provide a roadmap of
historical, though not legal, culpability of the nation's two top
elected officials during the scandal from the perspective of the
Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh.
The documents were obtained pursuant to a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request filed by the National Security Archive for the
files compiled during Walsh's six-year investigation from
1987-1993.
The posting comes on the anniversary of the November 25, 1986,
press conference during which Ronald Reagan and his attorney
general, Edwin Meese, informed the American public that they had
discovered a "diversion" of funds from the sale of arms to Iran to
fund the contra war--tying together the two strands of the scandal
which until that point had been separate in the public eye. With
the Congressional hearings featuring Oliver North, and the trials
of former NSC and CIA officials such as John Poindexter and Clair
George, the Iran-Contra scandal riveted the nation and dominated
political and media discourse in Washington for several ensuing
years.
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