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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (36924)	7/22/2004 10:55:44 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

GOP Is Divided, Can't Agree on Agenda jimbuie.blogs.com Midwest May Be Key to Election jimbuie.blogs.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (36924)	7/22/2004 4:04:23 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 81568

as. You said...." John Kerry, the man who uncovered Iran-Contra "..... Not everyone thinks so. :-) Senator John Kerry Motivations in Mena/Iran-Contra cbn2.tripod.com The Iran-contra-cocaine criminal iceberg was subjected to a series of bogus investigations and damage control "exposés." "The Tower Commission and Select Committee of the House and Senate on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition in 1987," began the damage control operation for the Imperial state. But, the hall of shame did not stop with John Tower, Ed Muskie and Brent Scowcroft or Dan Inouye and Lee Hamilton. It included Senator John Kerry and his Special Counsel Jack Blum and Staff Aid Dick McCall. It reached to the Special Counsel, Judge Lawrence E. Walsh, and to The Iran-Contra Scandal: the Declassified History, edited by Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne for the "National Security Archive," 1993. The two most respected government investigations of Iran-contra turn out to be as bogus as the original "Select Committee of the House and Senate on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition." "The Kerry Report" of December 1988 and the "Walsh Report" of 4 August 1993 are both obstructions of justice, just as were the "Select Committee" and "Tower Commission." The "Committee Print: Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy - a Report, Prepared by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, of the Committee of Foreign Relations United States Senate, December 1988" (commonly called "The Kerry Report") is a cover-up of more than it "uncovered." The International Center for Development Policy, founded by Ambassador Robert White, provided "The Brenneke Report: An Assessment of the International Center's Investigation, Prepared for Sen. John Kerry, Jack Blum and Dick McCall" (25 August 1988). All had "The Brenneke Report," with 31 pages of analysis and 53 pages of documents, along with a "closed deposition" taken 23 April 1988. "The Kerry Report," pages 130-32, blows Brenneke and Ambassador White off: "Brenneke said that he had worked closely with a number of Israeli agents active in the Central American weapons project who were running drugs into the United States. He said that he was told by White House officials that the operation was officially sanctioned, and he had personally discussed the operation with members of the Vice President's staff." (p. 130.) The next paragraph claims an "exhaustive effort to determine whether Brenneke's sworn statement had any basis in fact" involving the review of "thousands of pages of documents from government files relating to him [Brenneke]." Then the entire evidence is dismissed because "Brenneke was never officially connected to US intelligence" and "there is no evidence that any of them [arms deals] ever came to fruition" (pp. 130-31). This is technically known as a non sequitur and is utterly dishonest. Brenneke had reported drug dealing and Kerry denies he ever sold guns. Brenneke reported he was a "contract operative" and Kerry denies he was a sworn officer. This constitutes a willful and deliberate lie by Kerry, Blum and McCall. In addition, where are the "closed deposition" and "the thousands of pages of documents from government files relating to him"? Strange, is it not, that a "phony nobody" like Brenneke would have "thousands of pages of documents from government files relating to him." Perhaps Mr. Brenneke should be filing FOIAs. Then came the "Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters - Lawrence E. Walsh, independent counsel, 4 August 1993," commonly called the "Walsh Report." It, like the Kerry Report, is a con job and cover-up. Congressman William Alexander of Arkansas deposed Dick Brenneke about Mena, 21 June 1991, and all of the evidence developed by Congressman Alexander was provided to Special Counsel Walsh. None of it was used by Walsh. The "Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters," Vol. I, 4 August 1993, tells us on page xxi of the "Executive Summary" where Mena, Gotti, CIA and drugs may have disappeared: "In addition to the unclassified Volumes I and II of this report, a brief classified report, Volume III, has been filed with the Special Division. The classified report contains references to material gathered in the investigation of Iran/contra that could not be declassified and could not be concealed by some substitute form of discussion." Another cover-up was put in place. We, the people, have been scammed again. Both Kerry in '88 and Walsh in '93 have come across as honest, upright efforts to clean up the crimes of the CIA. Wrong! Both were clever cover-ups of CIA crimes.