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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (13152)2/19/2003 10:40:03 AM
From: T L Comiskey   of 89467
 
Once Again..Our Constitution is but toilet paper for The Right Wing..

T
Message 18599092

Powell and Iran-Contra [with a tip of the hat to Armitage too]:
from the Executive Summary, Independent Council's Report on Iran-Contra (1987)
Secretary Weinberger and Defense Department Officials

Contrary to their testimony to the presidentially appointed
Tower Commission and the Select Iran/contra Committees of
Congress, Independent Counsel determined that Secretary Weinberger
and his closest aides were consistently informed of proposed
and actual arms shipments to Iran during 1985 and 1986. The
key evidence was handwritten notes of Weinberger, which he
deliberately withheld from Congress and the OIC until they
were discovered by Independent Counsel in late 1991. The
Weinberger daily diary notes and notes of significant White
House and other meetings contained highly relevant, contemporaneous
information that resolved many questions left unanswered in
early investigations.

The notes demonstrated that Weinberger's early testimony that
he had only vague and generalized information about Iran arms
sales in 1985 was false, and that he in fact had detailed
information on the proposed arms sales and the actual deliveries.
The notes also revealed that Gen. Colin Powell, Weinberger's
senior military aide, and Richard L. Armitage, assistant
secretary of defense for international security affairs,
also had detailed knowledge of the 1985 shipments from
Israeli stocks. Armitage and Powell had testified that
they did not learn of the November 1985 HAWK missile shipment
until 1986.

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