Word: iran-contra
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There have been serious constitutional crises in previous administrations, [such as] Watergate.... [The] Iran-Contra affair was a serious constitutional breach. [This administration's] are hollow scandals of little consequence. Why has the press devoted more resources to these than, say, at the height of the health care debate, to health care? Whitewater is the phoniest of phonies. It has been protracted twice as long as Watergate. [From] the beginning of Watergate to [Nixon's] resignation was half the time of Whitewater so far, in which...nothing has been proved. In fact, according to the most comprehensive investigations...
During the original Iran-Contra hearings the CIA defended itself by saying it didn't know Ollie North was running a private air flotilla to illegally supply the contras. And now we are to believe that the agency didn't know planes were coming back loaded with cocaine that addicted Americans? Does such astonishing, habitual ignorance by our top "intelligence" agency show anything but gross incompetence and wasted funding? Maybe the CIA was distracted by its primary mission: not knowing the Soviet Union was going down the tubes. Surely we can find another group that does not know all this...
...involved in Dallas"--and who now, at 74, is on the verge of big payday, delivering and selling a planeload of unspecified merchandise somewhere in the Caribbean. It is 1984, after all, and the region is abuzz with preparations for what would later be described as the Iran-contra affair. Unfortunately, her father falls ill, and Elena agrees to accompany the plane on its mission and pick up the million dollars he expects to receive...
...least, President Clinton has been spared this burden. He is the first elected Democrat since F.D.R. not to face a serious primary challenge. Nor have Democrats taken up the charge that Clinton is ethically challenged. In sharp contrast to the bipartisan outrage over Watergate and Iran-contra, the Whitewater hearings broke down completely along partisan lines. This may help explain why most voters seem to be treating the affair as too embroiled in political wrangling to affect their votes in November. But that is also why the FBI files story has at least the potential to cause real political damage...
...creed. Rising expectations have given way to escalating suspicions about those in power. It isn't only the Montana Freemen who believe that we have met the enemy and he is U.S. "We know we've been lied to," says Bryce Zabel, Dark Skies' co-creator, "about Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-contra." Moreover, as ID4's Emmerich notes, "every generation creates its own mythology. Now the mythology centers on the government's hiding the dead alien bodies it discovered at Roswell...