The nico rob what nica raguan government. The topic at todays class is the iran contra scandal, sometimes called the irancontra affair. There are various names people attach to it, but it is most commonly known as the irancontra scandal or affair. I give the dates of 1984 to 1987 because the events that the scandal comprised really took off in 1984, even though you can see their roots earlier than the Reagan Administrations Foreign Policy, even earlier than 1984 in Ronald Reagans first term as president. I will explain the developments shortly, but they really took off in 1984. I will explain. They go through until mid 1987. This is a photograph from ingressional hearings about 1987. Anybody know who that colorless . Oliver north. Oliver north. A uniform because he was on active duty in the marine corps, even though many people noted at the time he did go tofore this time work wearing his uniform. He wore a business suit and a type of the most part because even though he was on active
Scandal was bigger than previously believed. This was reported at the workings institution in 2014. It is about 90 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to the brookings institution. This is an event sponsored by the brookings intelligence project. Our guest today is mr. Malcolm byrne. Im extremely pleased to have him here today. Not only is he a great scholar put a great friend. His official title is Deputy Director of the National Security archive. Nsa. Of course it is not that an that nsa he works for. The nsa york store is one of washingtons greatest gems. It is a place where classified America Needs this maker and is hopefully declassified. It seeks to shine a light on what goes on behind the scenes inside of washington. He is the coauthor of the becoming enemies. He now has a new book, irancontra, which is based on an extraordinary amounts of research and documents and diaries and interviews with individuals with a truly a mountain of material and documents the tunnel think anyone else
But theres also a tough part of this article i read today by Monica Lewinsky. She says the clintons dont care what happened to her, have no regard for whats become of her, what her future looks like. She hits them hard on how they tried to destroy her in order to free themselves from the facts, and this is the tough part of the new lewinsky narrative that republicans could use well between now and 2016. Its this charge how she makes the clintons, before the dna evidence was claimed, tried making her a scapegoat, someone clinton had no personal connection with, some stranger making false claims. That woman, as bill clinton referred to her in his infamous disclaimer, a loony tune, as Hillary Clinton said, a stalker, as a clinton aide was portraying her. Tonight, we discuss whether republicans are the stupid party and go after the story with the same piety or the shrewd party for the callous treatment of a young woman who got in the clintons political way. Howard fineman is an msnbc polit
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