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However, this is nothing new. We used the same pattern after Iran-Contra fell apart. In 1986, the day after Thanksgiving, when everything fell apart, and Ed Meese went on the television and said, “We got a problem,” that’s when then-Democratically controlled investigative committees in Congress began to form. People like me were paid to sabotage those committees by giving them false documents and false testimony so that they would then make representations and public hearings, to wit, they could be sandbagged for.
Now, we took it a step further at the time by actually pressuring the underlying congressmen, like what we did with Ron Dellums. Suddenly cocaine is found in his car, a kilo of coke is found in his car. Or Bill Alexander, who’s bankrupted because he got suckered into Republican-controlled bogus limited partnerships. It’s what Major General Richard Secord used to call the “Control File” After Iran-Contra fell apart, Secord ramped up, It was his province. Secord had the control book. One of Secord’s Iran-Contra responsibilities, particularly towards the end, was to control liability.
What liability meant is that congressional Democrats, particularly committee chairmen who could form investigative committees could be controlled. How they were controlled was through a variety of means. In the case of Ron Dellums, he was set up with cocaine because he was a known user of cocaine. Henry Gonzalez got his car machine-gunned. John Hughes, revelations about his philandering and his drunkenness. David Boren had revelations about his homosexuality. Bill Alexander was bankrupted, financially.
All the different levers that were known about the Democratic congressmen were used. We knew every single lever to pull, every peccadillo, every problem that they had, so that they could be controlled. But hat form of control isn’t as necessary now as it was then. Why? Because of the advent of pro-Bush net media. When you have the ability to control mainstream media, you don’t need to control the Democrats anymore because you have the ability to discredit the information.
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If you're not already grabbing for the bottle, consider that - with the addition of Porter Goss
becoming Director of the CIA and Richard Armitage most likely becoming the next U.S. Ambassador
to the U.N. - many of the chief players in the Iran-Contra crimes are not only not being punished, but are advancing into positions of even more power, while most of the last surviving
records of their crimes are going to be cleansed by - you guessed it - them!
