No lies --- bs ... he admitted his lies. ......We would be fortunate to have again a President who has the mandate of the People. ---
in 1984, President Reagan campaigned for, and strongly advocated for the curtailment of the Sandanistas in Nicaruagua. President Reagan clearly had the support of the American People, as well as the minority of the Republican Congress. --- that's a fucking lie. The *Boland Amendment* is a term describing three U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984, all aimed at limiting U.S. government <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._government> assistance to the Contras <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras> in Nicaragua <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua>. The first Boland Amendment was part of the House Appropriations Bill of 1982, which was attached as a rider <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation)> to the Defense Appropriations Act of 1983, named for the Massachusetts <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts> Democrat <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)>, Representative Edward Boland <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Boland>, who authored it. The House of Representatives <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives> passed the Defense Appropriations Act 411–0 on December 8, 1982 and it was signed by President Ronald Reagan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan> on December 21, 1982.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boland_Amendment#cite_note-apa-1> The amendment outlawed U.S. assistance to the Contras <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras>. Beyond restricting overt U.S. support of the Contras, the most significant effect of the Boland Amendment was the Iran–Contra affair <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair>, during which the Reagan Administration circumvented the Amendment, without consent of Congress, in order to continue supplying arms to the Contras. Reagan did not have the support of the Democratically controled majority of the Congress, who cut off funds of American support against the Sandanistas. The Reagan Administration found a way to get the mandate of the American People accomplished. "No Harm......No Foul"; and, "Much Ado, About Nothing"..... --- na ... just a fucking corrupt, mentally ill, pos warmongering asshole potus defying our law. The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert OperationsNational Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2 For more information contact: 202/994-7000 or [email protected] *Washington, D.C.* – An August, 1996, series in the *San Jose Mercury News* <http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs/start.htm> by reporter Gary Webb linked the origins of crack cocaine in California to the contras, a guerrilla force backed by the Reagan administration that attacked Nicaragua's Sandinista government during the 1980s. Webb's series, "The Dark Alliance," has been the subject of intense media debate <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/storm.htm>, and has focused attention on a foreign policy drug scandal that leaves many questions unanswered. This electronic briefing book is compiled from declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive, including the notebooks kept by NSC aide and Iran-contra figure Oliver North, electronic mail messages written by high-ranking Reagan administration officials, memos detailing the contra war effort, and FBI and DEA reports. The documents demonstrate official knowledge of drug operations, and collaboration with and protection of known drug traffickers. Court and hearing transcripts are also included. *Special thanks to the Arca Foundation, the Ruth Mott Fund, the Samuel Rubin Foundation, and the Fund for Constitutional Government for their support.* Contents: - Documentation of Official U.S. Knowledge of Drug Trafficking and the Contras <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html#1> - Evidence that NSC Staff Supported Using Drug Money to Fund the Contras <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html#2> - U.S. Officials and Major Traffickers: <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html#3> Manuel Noriega <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html#3a> José Bueso Rosa <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html#3b> - FBI/DEA Documentation <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html#4> - Testimony of Fabio Ernesto Carrasco, 6 April 1990 <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html#5> - National Security Archive Analysis and Publications <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html#6> Click on the document icon next to each description to view the document. ------------------------------ Documentation of Official U.S. Knowledge of Drug Trafficking and the ContrasThe National Security Archive obtained the hand-written notebooks of Oliver North, the National Security Council aide who helped run the contra war and other Reagan administration covert operations, through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in 1989. The notebooks, as well as declassified memos sent to North, record that North was repeatedly informed of contra ties to drug trafficking. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc01.pdf> In his entry for August 9, 1985, North summarizes a meeting with Robert Owen ("Rob"), his liaison with the contras. They discuss a plane used by Mario Calero, brother of Adolfo Calero, head of the FDN, to transport supplies from New Orleans to contras in Honduras. North writes: "Honduran DC-6 which is being used for runs out of New Orleans is probably being used for drug runs into U.S." As Lorraine Adams reported in the October 22, 1994 *Washington Post*, there are no records that corroborate North's later assertion that he passed this intelligence on drug trafficking to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc02.pdf> In a July 12, 1985 entry, North noted a call from retired Air Force general Richard Secord in which the two discussed a Honduran arms warehouse from which the contras planned to purchase weapons. (The contras did eventually buy the arms, using money the Reagan administration secretly raised from Saudi Arabia.) According to the notebook, Secord told North that "14 M to finance [the arms in the warehouse] came from drugs." <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc03.pdf> An April 1, 1985 memo from Robert Owen (code-name: "T.C." for "The Courier") to Oliver North (code-name: "The Hammer") describes contra operations on the Southern Front. Owen tells North that FDN leader Adolfo Calero (code-name: "Sparkplug") has picked a new Southern Front commander, one of the former captains to Eden Pastora who has been paid to defect to the FDN. Owen reports that the officials in the new Southern Front FDN units include "people who are questionable because of past indiscretions," such as José Robelo, who is believed to have "potential involvement with drug running" and Sebastian Gonzalez, who is "now involved in drug running out of Panama." <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc04.pdf> On February 10, 1986, Owen ("TC") wrote North (this time as "BG," for "Blood and Guts") regarding a plane being used to carry "humanitarian aid" to the contras that was previously used to transport drugs. The plane belongs to the Miami-based company Vortex, which is run by Michael Palmer, one of the largest marijuana traffickers in the United States. Despite Palmer's long history of drug smuggling, which would soon lead to a Michigan indictment on drug charges, Palmer receives over $300,000.00 from the Nicaraguan Humanitarian Aid Office (NHAO) -- an office overseen by Oliver North, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Elliott Abrams, and CIA officer Alan Fiers -- to ferry supplies to the contras. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc05.pdf> State Department contracts from February 1986 detail Palmer's work to transport material to the contras on behalf of the NHAO. ------------------------------ Evidence that NSC Staff Supported Using Drug Money to Fund the ContrasIn 1987, the Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations, led by Senator John Kerry, launched an investigation of allegations arising from reports, more than a decade ago, of contra-drug links. One of the incidents examined by the "Kerry Committee" was an effort to divert drug money from a counternarcotics operation to the contra war. On July 28, 1988, two DEA agents testified before the House Subcommittee on Crime regarding a sting operation conducted against the Medellin Cartel. The two agents said that in 1985 Oliver North had wanted to take $1.5 million in Cartel bribe money that was carried by a DEA informant and give it to the contras. DEA officials rejected the idea. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc06.pdf> The Kerry Committee report concluded that "senior U.S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras' funding problems." ------------------------------ U.S. Officials and Major TraffickersManuel NoriegaIn June, 1986, the New York Times published articles detailing years of Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega's collaboration with Colombian drug traffickers. Reporter Seymour Hersh wrote that Noriega "is extensively involved in illicit money laundering and drug activities," and that an unnamed White House official "said the most significant drug running in Panama was being directed by General Noriega." In August, Noriega, a long-standing U.S. intelligence asset, sent an emissary to Washington to seek assistance from the Reagan administration in rehabilitating his drug-stained reputation. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc07.pdf> Oliver North, who met with Noriega's representative, described the meeting in an August 23, 1986 e-mail message to Reagan national security advisor John Poindexter. "You will recall that over the years Manuel Noriega in Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship," North writes before explaining Noriega's proposal. If U.S. officials can "help clean up his image" and lift the ban on arms sales to the Panamanian Defense Force, Noriega will "'take care of' the Sandinista leadership for us." North tells Poindexter that Noriega can assist with sabotage against the Sandinistas, and suggests paying Noriega a million dollars -- from "Project Democracy" funds raised from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran -- for the Panamanian leader's help in destroying Nicaraguan economic installations. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc08.pdf> The same day Poindexter responds with an e-mail message authorizing North to meet secretly with Noriega. "I have nothing against him other than his illegal activities," Poindexter writes. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc09.pdf> On the following day, August 24, North's notebook records a meeting with CIA official Duane "Dewey" Clarridge on Noriega's overture. They decided, according to this entry, to "send word back to Noriega to meet in Europe or Israel." <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc10.pdf> The CIA's Alan Fiers later recalls North's involvement with the Noriega sabotage proposal. In testimony at the 1992 trial of former CIA official Clair George, Fiers describes North's plan as it was discussed at a meeting of the Reagan administration's Restricted Interagency Group: "[North] made a very strong suggestion that . . . there needed to be a resistance presence in the western part of Nicaragua, where the resistance did not operate. And he said, 'I can arrange to have General Noriega execute some insurgent -- some operations there -- sabotage operations in that area. It will cost us about $1 million. Do we want to do it?' And there was significant silence at the table. And then I recall I said, 'No. We don't want to do that.'" <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc11.pdf> Senior officials ignored Fiers' opinion. On September 20, North informed Poindexter via e-mail that "Noriega wants to meet me in London" and that both Elliott Abrams and Secretary of State George Shultz support the initiative. Two days later, Poindexter authorized the North/Noriega meeting. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc12.pdf> North's notebook lists details of his meeting with Noriega, which took place in a London hotel on September 22. According to the notes, the two discussed developing a commando training program in Panama, with Israeli support, for the contras and Afghani rebels. They also spoke of sabotaging major economic targets in the Managua area, including an airport, an oil refinery, and electric and telephone systems. (These plans were apparently aborted when the Iran-Contra scandal broke in November 1986.) José Bueso RosaReagan administration officials interceded on behalf of José Bueso Rosa, a Honduran general who was heavily involved with the CIA's contra operations and faced trial for his role in a massive drug shipment to the United States. In 1984 Bueso and co-conspirators hatched a plan to assassinate Honduran President Roberto Suazo Córdoba; the plot was to be financed with a $40 million cocaine shipment to the United States, which the FBI intercepted in Florida. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc13.pdf> Declassified e-mail messages indicate that Oliver North led the behind-the-scenes effort to seek leniency for Bueso . The messages record the efforts of U.S. officials to "cabal quietly" to get Bueso off the hook, be it by "pardon, clemency, deportation, [or] reduced sentence." Eventually they succeeded in getting Bueso a short sentence in "Club Fed," a white collar prison in Florida. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc14.pdf> The Kerry Committee report reviewed the case, and noted that the man Reagan officials aided was involved in a conspiracy that the Justice Department deemed the "most significant case of narco-terrorism yet discovered." ------------------------------ FBI/DEA Documentation <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc15.pdf> In February 1987 a contra sympathizer in California told the FBI he believed FDN officials were involved in the drug trade. Dennis Ainsworth, a Berkeley-based conservative activist who had supported the contra cause for years, gave a lengthy description of his suspicions to FBI agents. The bureau's debriefing says that Ainsworth agreed to be interviewed because "he has certain information in which he believes the Nicaraguan 'Contra' organization known as FDN (Frente Democrático Nacional) has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista Government." Ainsworth informed the FBI of his extensive contacts with various contra leaders and backers, and explained the basis for his belief that members of the FDN were trafficking in drugs. <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc16.pdf> A DEA report of February 6, 1984 indicates that a central figure in the* San Jose Mercury News* series was being tracked by U.S. law enforcement officials as early as 1976, when a DEA agent "identified Norwin MENESES-Canterero as a cocaine source of supply in Managua, Nicaragua." Meneses, an associate of dictator Anastasio Somoza who moved to California after the Nicaraguan revolution in 1979, was an FDN backer and large-scale cocaine trafficker. ------------------------------ Testimony of Fabio Ernesto Carrasco, 6 April 1990 <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/docs/doc17.pdf> On October 31, 1996, the *Washington Post* ran a follow up story to the *San Jose Mercury News* series titled "CIA, Contras and Drugs: Questions on Links Linger." The story drew on court testimony in 1990 of Fabio Ernesto Carrasco, a pilot for a major Columbian drug smuggler named George Morales. As a witness in a drug trial, Carrasco testified that in 1984 and 1985, he piloted planes loaded with weapons for contras operating in Costa Rica. The weapons were offloaded, and then drugs stored in military bags were put on the planes which flew to the United States. "I participated in two [flights] which involved weapons and cocaine at the same time," he told the court. Carrasco also testified that Morales provided "several million dollars" to Octaviano Cesar and Adolfo "Popo" Chamorro, two rebel leaders working with the head of the contras' southern front, Eden Pastora.* The Washington Post* reported that Chamorro said he had called his CIA control officer to ask if the contras could accept money and arms from Morales, who was at the time under indictment for cocaine smuggling. "They said [Morales] was fine," Chamorro told the *Post*. ------------------------------ National Security Archive Analysis and Publications - Peter Kornbluh's Testimony at California Congressional Inquiry (19 October 1996) <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/pktstmny.htm> - "Crack, Contras, and the CIA: The Storm Over 'Dark Alliance,'" from <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/storm.htm>*Columbia Journalism Review* <http://www.cjr.org/> (January/February 1997) - "CIA's Challenge in South Central," from the *Los Angeles Times (15 November 1996)* <http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/ciachall.htm> - "The Paper Trail to the Top," from the *Baltimore Sun (17 November 1996)* <http://www.sjmercury.com/drugs/postscript/controversy/controversy1118.htm> - *White House E-Mail: The Top Secret Computer Messages the Reagan/Bush White House Tried to Destroy* <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/white_house_email/index.html> - *The Iran-Contra Scandal: the Declassified History* <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/icread/icread.html> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 1:02:11 PM UTC-6, KeithInTampa wrote: > > No lies......We would be fortunate to have again a President who has the > mandate of the People. in 1984, President Reagan campaigned for, and > strongly advocated for the curtailment of the Sandanistas in Nicaruagua. > President Reagan clearly had the support of the American People, as well as > the minority of the Republican Congress. > > Reagan did not have the support of the Democratically controled majority > of the Congress, who cut off funds of American support against the > Sandanistas. The Reagan Administration found a way to get the mandate of > the American People accomplished. > > "No Harm......No Foul"; and, "Much Ado, About Nothing"..... > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:57 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGdWIwiVMF4 >> >> >> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 12:36:13 PM UTC-6, KeithInTampa wrote: >>> >>> Ironically, President Reagan's testimony regarding Iran-Contra came up >>> in another (FaceBook) discussion this weekend, and I watched over three >>> hours of President Reagan's testimony on Saturday. >>> >>> Reagan was clear, concise, and by no means suffering from any mental >>> incompetence during this deposition on February 16, 1990. Although Reagan >>> didn't remembers some specifics of meetings that were held, specifically >>> with Admiral Poindexter, Reagan was very clear and again concise regarding >>> what the purpose and goal was with the Contras and with Iran during this >>> era. >>> >>> Here's the first two hours of President Reagan's testimony, which links >>> to the next segment: >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_jTDUhT0A >>> >>> Here's President Reagan's explanation to the American People, and taking >>> full responsibility for any improprieties: >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YNPwSf9P8 >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNl9F8M_cOI >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:52 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> WASHINGTON — Former President Ronald Reagan, in testimony made public >>>> Thursday, said he had no recollection of ever being told that profits from >>>> Iran weapons sales were diverted to the Nicaraguan contras, and that he >>>> ``never had any inkling`` White House aide Oliver North was secretly >>>> helping the guerrillas. >>>> >>>> But his deposition did reveal startling gaps in the memory of the >>>> 79-year-old former president. In all, Reagan said ``I don`t recall`` or >>>> ``I >>>> can`t remember`` 88 times in the eight hours of testimony taken Feb. 16-17 >>>> in Los Angeles. >>>> >>>> Reagan, who was subpoenaed by the defense in the upcoming trial of his >>>> onetime national security adviser, John Poindexter, neither clearly >>>> exonerated Poindexter nor critically undermined his defense. Nor did his >>>> videotaped testimony do much to answer questions about who authorized the >>>> diversion at a time when such aid to the contras was illegal. >>>> >>>> At one point, Reagan said he could not identify Gen. John Vessey, who >>>> served for more than three years as his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of >>>> Staff. At other times, he said he could not identify a picture of contra >>>> leader Adolfo Calero, could not recall a shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran >>>> in November 1985, had no memory of signing one presidential finding >>>> relating to the shipment of weapons to Iran and had only the slightest >>>> recollection of signing a second such finding. >>>> >>>> He also appeared hazy on the identity of Eugene Hasenfus, an American >>>> whose shooting down over Nicaragua helped precipitate the unraveling of >>>> the >>>> then-secret Iran-contra operation. And Reagan seemed totally unable to >>>> recall what the Tower Commission-a panel he appointed in December 1986 to >>>> investigate the affair-said in its report three months later. >>>> >>>> Despite concerns that some material would have to be withheld from the >>>> public because of national security considerations, the judge released the >>>> entire transcript of the deposition once the Bush administration said it >>>> saw no need for deletions. >>>> >>>> In defense of his sporadic recollections, Reagan said that he had been >>>> told by statisticians that he met on the average with about 80 people a >>>> day >>>> for eight years and that 50 million pieces of paper accumulated during his >>>> presidency. >>>> >>>> Reagan was clear and emphatic, however, on his dedication to the >>>> anti-communist contras, explaining his belief that the Soviet Union >>>> planned >>>> to >>>> >>>> ``take Eastern Europe . . . organize the hordes of Asia and . . . move >>>> on to Latin America. And once having taken that . . . the United States >>>> would fall into their outstretched hand like overripe fruit.`` >>>> >>>> The deposition was the former president`s first testimony under oath >>>> about his knowledge of the Iran-contra affair. >>>> >>>> The testimony also represents the first time a U.S. president has >>>> testified about his own conduct in office in connection with a criminal >>>> trial. President Gerald Ford provided videotaped testimony in the trial of >>>> Lynette >>>> >>>> ``Squeaky`` Fromme, who tried to assassinate him, and President Jimmy >>>> Carter gave videotaped depositions in two criminal trials and a grand jury >>>> investigation. >>>> >>>> Wearing a dark suit with white shirt and dark tie, Reagan looked much >>>> like his presidential days, his hair grown back from minor brain surgery >>>> last year but showing a gray patch near the right temple. >>>> >>>> Reagan was sworn in and, like any other witness, spelled his last name >>>> for the court reporter. He looked mildly nervous when U.S. District Judge >>>> Harold Greene thanked him for appearing despite the inconvenience, but >>>> seemed to relax when he recounted his background as a former president, >>>> California governor and actor. >>>> >>>> ``Prior to working in the movie business, I was a sports announcer in >>>> radio,`` he said. >>>> >>>> Despite the objections of all parties in the case, Greene ordered the >>>> release of a 293-page transcript of the deposition and allowed reporters >>>> and members of the public to view a videoptape of it before the trial. But >>>> the judge said news organizations could not have copies of the videotapes >>>> until after they were played at the trial, because premature widespread >>>> showing could jeopardize Poindexter`s right to a fair and impartial jury. >>>> >>>> Poindexter, who testified during the 1987 Iran-contra congressional >>>> hearings that he never told Reagan about the diversion scheme to allow the >>>> president ``plausible deniability,`` sat in the courtroom during Reagan`s >>>> deposition. >>>> >>>> Poindexter, who is charged with lying to Congress, obstruction of >>>> Congress and conspiracy, is scheduled to go on trial March 5. His defense >>>> appears to rest on the theory that Reagan either approved of or knew about >>>> his aides` secret activities on the contras` behalf. >>>> >>>> Reagan denied any knowledge of the diversion. But he also emphasized >>>> that he repeatedly told his staff he wanted to help the contras in any way >>>> possible as long as no one broke the law. >>>> >>>> There was a certain deference throughout the deposition proceedings, >>>> with Greene and the lawyers addressing Reagan as ``Mr. President >>>> <http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-02-23/news/9001160156_1_iran-contra-testimony-recall/2#>.`` >>>> >>>> Richard Beckler, Poindexter`s lead attorney, who can be combative in >>>> court, >>>> was generally low-key in his questioning. >>>> >>>> But Dan Webb, the former U.S. attorney in Chicago who is prosecuting >>>> the case for the independent counsel`s office, sparred with Reagan several >>>> times over whether he knew about or approved the diversion of funds to the >>>> contras or the destruction of government records about the scheme. >>>> >>>> At one point, a clearly agitated Reagan said, ``for heaven`s sake, no!`` >>>> >>>> when Webb asked if he had approved or authorized a diversion of funds >>>> in violation of a law banning any such aid. But, he added, ``no one has >>>> proven to me that there was a diversion.`` >>>> >>>> He also said Poindexter should have told him about any diversion ``if >>>> he knew about it . . . unless maybe he thought he was protecting me from >>>> something.`` >>>> >>>> Reagan said he did not recall the Tower Commission`s reporting that >>>> North and the National Security Council were providing military aid to the >>>> contras, who were waging war against Nicaragua`s Sandinista government. >>>> When asked whether the panel ever explained how the U.S. received more >>>> than >>>> $12.2 million it was owed for a shipment of TOW anti-tank missiles to >>>> Iran, >>>> and how excess profits might have been diverted, he said he didn`t think >>>> it >>>> was explained. >>>> >>>> When Webb said the answer was ``completely unresponsive,`` Reagan shot >>>> back, ``I don`t think it is unresponsive to state what I appointed the >>>> commission to do and what I tried to get from them, and they could not >>>> supply that information >>>> <http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-02-23/news/9001160156_1_iran-contra-testimony-recall/2#> >>>> until >>>> this day.`` >>>> >>>> Reagan said prosecutors for the first time were bringing to his >>>> attention the Tower Commission`s reference to a diversion. >>>> >>>> ``This is the first time I have ever seen that,`` Reagan said. >>>> >>>> President Bush`s national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, who also >>>> was a member of the Tower Commission, said Thursday that Reagan had been >>>> briefed on the report at the time. White House reporters recalled that >>>> when >>>> the report was released in February 1987, Reagan held a copy aloft and >>>> said >>>> he planned to take it to Camp David to study. >>>> >>>> As for North`s participating in the illegal scheme to aid the contras, >>>> Reagan said, ``I never had any inkling`` such a thing was going on. >>>> >>>> He also said he and North ``did not meet frequently or anything of that >>>> kind, nor do I remember ever having a single meeting with him, as has been >>>> hinted at times by others.`` >>>> >>>> In trying to explain his faulty memory, Reagan said at one point that >>>> his administration was concerned with more than ``this Iranian issue.`` >>>> >>>> ``That was just one of many things that were going on,`` he said. ``The >>>> government was involved in things of great import, not only having to do >>>> with domestic problems, but with the Cold War and things of that kind, and >>>> trying to arrive at treaties with regard to nuclear weapons and so forth.`` >>>> >>>> Perhaps the most startling lapse in Reagan`s memory involved Vessey, >>>> who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff >>>> <http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-02-23/news/9001160156_1_iran-contra-testimony-recall/2#> >>>> from >>>> 1982 to 1985. >>>> >>>> His name arose when Beckler referred to a Central American trip made by >>>> Vessey and then asked Reagan to explain who Vessey was. >>>> >>>> ``Oh, dear,`` the former president said. ``I could ask for help here. >>>> The name I know is very familiar . . .`` >>>> >>>> At Vessey`s retirement in 1985, Reagan said to the army general, ``A >>>> career like yours, combining >>>> <http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-02-23/news/9001160156_1_iran-contra-testimony-recall/2#>as >>>> >>>> it does heroism, patriotism, competence, wisdom and kindness, doesn`t need >>>> elaboration from commanders in chief or presidents. 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