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Politics : The Donkey's Inn
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To: Mephisto who wrote (5379)12/10/2002 1:25:58 PM
From: Mephisto   of 15516
 
Return of the Iran-Contra brigade

Sunday December 8, 2002
The Observer

The selection of Elliot Abrams last week as President George
Bush's director of Middle Eastern affairs triggered a cloud of
controversy over both the administration's Middle East policy.

Abrams pleaded guilty in 1987 to withholding information from
about the Nicaraguan Contra case from Congress, before being
pardoned by the first President Bush in 1992.

Four officials now
in the Bush administration worked for President Reagan in the
mid-1980s, when money from arms sales to Iran was diverted to
aid the Contra rebels in Nicaragua:

Elliott Abrams

NOW Senior director for Near East and North African Affairs at
the National Security Council

THEN Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere
Affairs

Pleaded guilty to withholding information about the case from
Congress. Was later pardoned by President George Bush Sr

John D. Negroponte

NOW US Ambassador to the United Nations

THEN Ambassador to Honduras

Was the Reagan administration's 'point man' for efforts to back
the Contras from Nicaragua's neighbour, Honduras

John M. Poindexter

NOW Director of the Information Awareness Office at the
Pentagon's research agency

THEN National Security Adviser

Was convicted in 1990 of five felony counts, including making
false statements to Congress. The convictions were later
overturned

Otto J. Reich

NOW Special envoy for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and was
Assistant Secretary of State

THEN Director of the office of public diplomacy at the State
Department

Led an office found to have engaged in prohibited acts of
domestic propaganda to generate support for the Contras

More from Ed Vulliamy

guardian.co.uk
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