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To: Ilaine who wrote (58685)	10/12/1999 7:33:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Reagan got the Congressional intelligence oversight committees to approve his disbursement of 20 million dollars for the Contras by lying to the committees. The lie was his assurance that the money they were approving, as is in their purview, was to be used only for the purpose of interdicting weapons traffic in Central America, particularly from Nicaragua into El Salvadore. We now know that Reagan's emissaries, in the months before these assurances were given to Congress, were privately telling friendly Central American leaders that the president's intention was to overthrow the Sandinista government. He tricked the oversight committees who were authorized to approve or not his scheme, and the activities of the Contras from the beginning bore no relation to the plan that Congress had assented to. Call it what you will. [Source, Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History, America in the Reagan years.] I have been answering posts for quite a while now, and now have more than I did in my InBox when I began.