Gates and the "October Surprise"

[eridani]

http://www.truthout.org/113008A

Nearly 16 years ago, during the last transition from a President Bush to a Democrat, Moscow made an extraordinary gesture to Washington: The Kremlin supplied a summary of its intelligence information about secret U.S.-Iranian contacts in the 1980s.

The report was from a national security committee of the Russian Duma to Rep. Lee Hamilton, who had requested what might be in Moscow's files as part of a task force investigation into whether the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980 had interfered with President Jimmy Carter's bid to free 52 American hostages then held in Iran.

The Russian report arrived late, via the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, showing up on Jan. 11, 1993, but the contents were stunning. The Russians reported that their intelligence revealed that long-rumored meetings between Republicans and Iranians in Europe during Campaign 1980 had indeed occurred.

But this information went against what Hamilton and other members of the task force had decided to conclude, that there had been no such contacts. Hamilton had already rebuffed advice from his chief counsel, Lawrence Barcella, that the investigation be extended a few months because of other late-arriving evidence of Republican guilt.

[happychatter]

1. A good read to start the day... thanks for posting

very disturbing indeed

[uponit7771]

2. I wasn't alive in Nixons time but it seems that's when the started being lead by a bunch of really..

...crooked\evil bastards. RayGun was the most racist president we've had save Lincolns VP while Bush 1 wasn't a saint either he was loads better than the rest of em and the GOP rejected the guy out of hand.

Now the party is left with dingbats and goofballs, I pray the current leadership of the GOP goes away and never takes power again.

I'm not surprised RayGun brokered a deal with the Iranians

[formercia]

4. It was George HW Bush and Bill Casey that made the deal

Gates went along for the ride because Poppy was grooming him for bigger things.

[Zombie2]

3. Hillary will take care of all this as SoS.

:applause::applause::applause:


:nuke:

:cry:

[acmavm]

5. Way to go Gertrude. You sure put everything in its proper

persepective with your oh-so relevant post.

Way to stick to the subject!

[moondust]

6. From "The Moscow Times" - 2002.

~snip~

We refer, of course, to the weekend of Oct. 18-19, 1980, when a former and future head of the CIA met in Paris with representatives from a terrorist regime to plot the cynical manipulation of an American presidential election.

It is an act of treason for private American citizens to cut political deals with foreign governments. But that didn't stop George Herbert Walker Bush and William Casey from sitting down with the Ayatollah Khomeini's mullahs to discuss a matter of mutual interest: making sure the 52 American hostages being held by Iran stayed locked up until after the November election contest between President Jimmy Carter and Republican challenger Ronald Reagan.

~more~

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/09/06/120.html

From Chris Floyd's site:

Gates of Hell: Another Constitution-Betraying Bushist in the Pentagon

Could anyone be worse than Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary? Well, how about an old Bush Family factotum who was hip-deep in the Iran-Contra arms-drugs-terror scam, who doctored, spun and manipulated intelligence for partisan purposes and also steered secret U.S. military intelligence to help Saddam Hussein launch WMD attacks? Oh, plus someone who has no experience whatsoever of the military? Sounds like a dream candidate; and of course our Dear Leader -- manfully shaking off the great slap he took from the ungrateful American people who clearly don't deserve such sterling leadership -- has found him. (Plus an update below on Gates' involvement with high treason as well.)

~more~

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/917-gates-of-hell-another-constitution-betraying-bushist-in-the-pentagon.html

[judasdisney]

7. Lee Hamilton is Ergenekon

Ask Sibel Edmonds about Lee Hamilton. Hamilton is near the very top of the most corrupt agents in D.C. of the past 30 years.

[scarletwoman]

8. Kicking this so I can find it later when I have time to read everything. One comment re: Hamilton

As soon as he was appointed vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission, it was apparent that the cover-up was in good hands.

sw