Word: iran-contra
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...breaks for the rich and whose club affiliations include Yale's elite Skull and Bones society. There are few better national symbols of wealth and privilege than our president. And Bush still refuses to clarify his role in the best example of governmental lawlessness in the 1980s--the Iran-contra scandal...
Nothing in recent American life--not Watergate, not Iran-contra, not the debate on the Persian Gulf War--has served to reveal more clearly than the Thomas episode the fragility of the American social experiment. Some will say, as they say at the close of every political crisis, "When all is said and done, the system worked, the people were heard and justice was done...
That was the consensus view at the close of Watergate. Now, as the Iran-contra proceedings grind toward an end, it is less apparent. There was a moment of honor during the congressional debate at the time of the Gulf War. But as we survey the moral and political debris of the past three months, only a fool or a professional optimist could rejoice in such a consensus surrounding Thomas. What went wrong...
Among the personalities at the well-attended symposium were Arthur Liman, U.S. Senate counsel for the Iran-Contra hearings and legal adviser to convicted junkbond king Michael Milken. Assistant Professor of Law Charles J. Olgetree, who advised Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill at the Senate confirmation hearings last week, attended as well...
Testimony during three weeks of hearings focused on allegations that Gates knew more than he has admitted about the Iran-Contra scandal, and that he slanted intelligence reports to fit the administration's hard-line anti-Soviet bias...