next week the liberals will be crowing about how obama freed the hostages, just as i see they are now crowing that comey exonerated hillary. which is such a departure from the truth is it breath taking.
obama’s $400m cash payout to Iran is unprecedented, say legal experts
Obama’s $400m cash payout to Iran is unprecedented, say legal experts
No other transaction in US history has involved a planeload of bills, say diplomatic historians, raising questions about payment timed to help free prisoners
Not nearly as controversial as when Reagan sold Iran missiles for hostages in Lebanon...During the ban on arms sales with Iran..
The arms were brokered through Israel. There was no ban on arms sales to Israel. It was controversial because the Democrats hated Reagan.
It was controversial cause with all the huff and puff, Reagan turned out to be just another lying politician...
You just turned into a lying USMB poster. You posted this and it is a lie.
"Not nearly as controversial as when Reagan sold Iran missiles for hostages in Lebanon...During the ban on arms sales with Iran..
Pay attention, you will learn something.
Reagan's primary goal was to prevent Communism from spreading to Central America. The Communists in the US Senate passed the Boland Amendments that prevented him from funds to support the Contras. He told his staff to find some money to defeat the Communist takeover and they proceeded to do so. He didn't tell them how to raise the money.
Fuck Reagan and his breaking of the law, did he do any time for his crime? Hell no, just like any other politician president, they walk away from their crimes free and clear...
What crimes?
"During the early years of the Reagan administration, a
civil war raged in
Nicaragua, pitting the
revolutionary Sandinista government against
Contra rebel groups. After the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carried out a series of acts of
sabotage without Congressional intelligence committees being made aware beforehand, the Boland Amendment was passed by Congress
, cutting off appropriated funding for the Contras.
It covered only
appropriated funds spent by
intelligence agencies (such as the CIA). Some of Reagan's national security officials used non-appropriated money spent by the
National Security Council (NSC) to circumvent the Amendment. No court ever made a determination whether Boland covered the NSC and,
because the law was a prohibition rather than a criminal statute, no one could be indicted for violating it. Opponents
alleged that the White House violated the amendment.
Administration officials argued that the Boland Amendment, or any act of Congress would not interfere with the president's conduct of foreign policy by restricting funds,
as the president could seek funds from private entities or foreign governments. In this spirit, and despite the Boland Amendment, Vice Admiral
John M. Poindexter, USN, and his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel
Oliver North, USMC, secretly diverted to the Nicaraguan contras millions of dollars in funds received from a secret deal that
some alleged had explicit presidential approval
