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Some better known (and far less successful) Harvard sports teams might want to know the secret of the racquetmens' success...
...Ollie North and his band of private and semi-private operatives were not acting as rogue agents but with, at best, an implicit understanding of what they were up to among officials at the highest level of government. If Reagan did not tell North in no uncertain terms to secret arms and supplies to the contras, he let it be known that such would not disturb him in the least. Nor has he indicated that he is disturbed by North's activities since they were revealed nearly 7 months...
Then it was revealed that over the summer the Administration devised and acted upon a secret plan to deceive the American media--by planting an apocryphal story in The Wall Street Journal--so as to convince Libyan military officers that an American invasion of their country was imminent and incite them to depose Col. Khadaffy. A laudable aspiration, perhaps, but one which the Administration sought to achieve through manipulative means wholly in contradiction with fundamental American values about honesty and forthrightness in government. Making matters more repulsive was a report a few weeks later which showed that the Administration doctored...
...when he allowed his aides to formulate and execute American foreign policy in the White House basement, bypassing the State Department as well as the Congress. At one point Albert Hakim, an Iranian financier and arms merchant, was sent to Iran by high administration officials to negotiate secret treaties on behalf of the U.S. with the ayatollahs...
...these committees have heard is a depressing story," said Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), chairman of the House committee. "It is a story of not telling the truth to the Congress and the American people," he said, ticking off a litany of the affair in which he said a secret supply network was established to aid the Contra rebels, arms were sold covertly to Iran and some administration officials made efforts to mislead Congress about their activities...