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During the period in question, the Boland Amendment prohibited U.S. funds from "directly or indirectly" supporting contra military operations. the legal questions, being vigorously pursued by Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, focus on whether North and other officials participated in supplying weapons or merely encouraged private groups...
Congress strengthens the Boland Amendment by banning any U.S. agency from supporting the contra...
First is the Boland Amendment, which forbade any use of federal funds to aid the contras from 1984 until this October, when it expired. Meese contends that "provisions had been made by Congress to permit the U.S. to seek funding from third countries," such as Israel, but he appears to be simply wrong. The amendment was rewritten last year to include an explicit prohibition against U.S. solicitation of third-country financing, and that ban was in effect throughout the time Iranian money supposedly was being funneled to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...raising the question of whether North and possibly others could be prosecuted under laws banning the spending of money on secret missions that are not authorized by Congress. The CIA is exempted from one of these statutes, but other federal bodies, notably the NSC, are not. Unlike the Boland Amendment and the Intelligence Oversight Act, the laws against unauthorized transfers of funds provide criminal penalties against violators...
That offense might be in addition to aviolation of the Boland Act, which enjoined thegovernment from forwarding military aid to theContras for a period of time, Vagts said...