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Scheme that violated american law and policy all around. after three investigations and a televised congressional hearing, prosecutors brought charges against several members of reagan's administration, including reagan's national security adviser admiral john poindexter and his deputy, lieutenant colonel oliver north. north was the pivotal figure in all of this. he lied under oath and destroyed evidence related to the illegal sale of arms to iran. these were and still are crimes, but north didn't go to prison. as vox points out, in all likelihood that's because a joint senate committee, deemi...

Counsel has advised me that i @he should avail myself of the protections provided by that same constitution that i have fought to support and defend. i intend to follow that advice exactly. >> during president ronald reagan's second term, it was revealed his administration sold arms to iran in order to fund a right-wing militant group in nicaragua. it was a scandal that transfixed washington and the nation and damaged reagan's credibility or as "the washington post" pointed out at the time, it was a grand scheme that violated american law and policy all around. after three investigations and a...

Poindexter and his deputy, lieutenant colonel oliver north. north was the pivotal figure in all of this. he lied under oath and destroyed evidence related to the illegal sale of arms to iran. these were and still are crimes, but north didn't go to prison. as vox points out, in all likelihood that's because a joint senate committee, deeming north's information vital to the public interest granted him immunity before the fbi could fully build its case. it appears that michael flynn may be looking to accomplish something similar. as we said earlier, the senate intelligence committee has turned do...