Good call, Scribbler. This is a debatable topic.
Many "conservatives" think that North is essentially a good guy who made a few mistakes, because that fits their paradigm: How could a US Colonel, a denizen of Reagan's White House, have done anything as nefarious as running cover ops on drug trafficking?
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB...BB2/nsaebb2.htm Quote:
| This electronic briefing book is compiled from declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive, including the notebooks kept by NSC aide and Iran-contra figure Oliver North, electronic mail messages written by high-ranking Reagan administration officials, memos detailing the contra war effort, and FBI and DEA reports. The documents demonstrate official knowledge of drug operations, and collaboration with and protection of known drug traffickers. Court and hearing transcripts are also included. |
Let's see. Could it have been about the MONEY? For that matter why is the CIA still allowed to this day to run drugs into America under its National Security authority?
http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/cia2.htm
The consequences of Empire, rule by the elite, is non-sequiturs in what is allowable...