Replies to post #224657 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[niteowl]

YW, you can see how much time is spent looking at the history of our next Secretary of Defense...must be the liberal press at work once again.


http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg_ig.asp?message_id=14875230

It's wonderful that so many Republicans want to discuss the scandals from the 80's.

I watched most of the Murtha tape last night and even though he did not accept any money it was clear that he was leaving the door open as he promoted himself.


There is another person who is being considered for a more important job...Robert Gates.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1111-25.htm

"...As Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel investigating Iran-Contra and deputy attorney general in the Eisenhower Administration, points out in “Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up,” Gates was in on the whole Ollie North illegal operation from the start.

“Two questions had not been answered satisfactorily: Had Gates falsely denied knowledge of North’s Contra-support activities?” Walsh writes. “Had Gates falsely postdated his first knowledge of North’s diversion of the arms sales proceeds to the Contras?”

“We did not believe Gates,” Walsh adds. “It simply was not credible that the second-highest officer of the CIA would forget a warning of an illegal activity linking President Reagan’s two favorite programs. We decided against prosecuting Gates for making a false statement, however, because there had been only one witness to each of the conversations he claimed to have forgotten.”