LA RAM FAN
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It's possible...Talk about blocking investigations, and of course Casey died (I just read Reagan)...BTW, your phony scandals (IRS, selling guns, harassment subpoenas) are total bs.Reagan DID sell arms to Iran in exchange for them continuing to hold the prisoners to make Carter look bad so he could win the election. 5 minutes after he was sworn in, they released the hostage per agreement.
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yeah the idiots like stephanine that ignore how reagan had the most corrupt administration at the time.
Oh? Did Reagan use the IRS to audit political enemies? Did the Reagan DOJ serve harassment subpoenas on banks that had financial transactions with political enemies, though no claim of criminal acts by ANYONE was ever made? Did Reagan sell guns to Mexican drug lords resulting in the Death of American federal agents?
Was that Reagan, or your god Obama?
Fucking scumbag hack.
ROFLMNAO!
My goodness... the idiocy of this batch of hacks is astounding! This goes well beyond the ignorance typical of the average Leftist. These cranks are absolutely wrong on absolutely everything.
Casey was campaign manager of the successful presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan in 1980, and served on the transition team following the election. After Reagan took office, Reagan named Casey to the post of Director of Central Intelligence.[6] Stansfield Turner dubbed it the "Resurrection of Wild Bill", referring to Bill Donovan, the brilliant and eccentric head of OSS in World War II whom Casey greatly admired.[7]
During his tenure at the CIA, Casey played a large part in the shaping of Reagan's foreign policy, particularly Reagan's approach to Soviet international activity. Based on the book, The Terror Network, Casey believed that the Soviet Union was the source of most worldwide terrorist activity in spite of CIA analysts providing evidence that this was in fact black propaganda by the CIA itself. Casey obtained a report from a professor who agreed with his view. Casey also turned to Defense Intelligence Agency for a competing analysis, that was ultimately reconciled with the CIA analysts to produce the estimate circulated within the government as "The Soviet Role in Revolutionary Violence."[8] This, in turn, convinced Reagan that there was a threat.[9] After records from the collapsed Communist governments became available in the 1990s it became clear that the disputed report overestimated Communist involvement in terrorist activity.[10]
Ronald Reagan used other prominent Catholics in his government to brief the pope during the Cold War. Casey would fly secretly to Rome in a windowless C-141 black jet and "be taken undercover to the Vatican.[11]
Casey oversaw the re-expansion of the Intelligence Community to funding and human resource levels greater than those existing before the preceding Carter Administration; in particular, he increased levels within the CIA. During his tenure, restrictions were lifted on the use of the CIA to directly and covertly influence the internal and foreign affairs of countries relevant to American policy. Notably, Casey articulated before Congress in December 1981 that covert operations in Nicaragua were in the interest of national security.[12][better source needed]
This period of the Cold War saw an increase in the Agency's global, anti-Soviet activities, which is started under the Carter Doctrine in late 1980.
Hours before Casey was scheduled to testify before Congress related to his knowledge of Iran-Contra, he was reported to have been rendered incapable of speech during an operation to remove a brain tumor. In a 1987 book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, Washington Post reporter and biographer Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey on a number of occasions for the biography, said that he had gained entry into Casey's hospital room for a final, four-minute encounter—a claim which was met with disbelief in many quarters as well as an adamant denial from Casey's wife, Sofia. According to Woodward, when Casey was asked if he knew about the diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras, "His head jerked up hard. He stared, and finally nodded yes."[13]
excellent stuff there.thanks for posting it.
the reaganut worshippers of courese wont read it since they only see what they want to see.
carter like JFK,also tried to do the right thing and get rid of the CIA as well.
you probably already know that when carter-"the last halfway decent president we have had since JFK,our last great president" that when carter got in,he replaced the evil George Bush when that bastard Ford had running the CIA,that he replaced Bush with Turner who then got in and cleaned up the CIA cleaning house getting rid of the CIA covert operaters firing them and was in the process of reforming the CIA under carter.
Carter was in the process of cleaning up the CIA but since he only got to serve one term he did not have enough time to do so to implement it.Once Reagan got in,the he fired Turner and got the CIA back to its covert operations again and the CIA as today is still contiuning their murderous actions around the country.
another example of another good president who also tried to do the right thing and as a result only got to serve in office one term.
