Remember This Guy?

[MayReasonRule]

[ShepKat]

1. I remember the controversy

He blew the whistle if I recall and people either loved or hated him

[Scrivener7]

2. He didn't blow any whistles. He was facing felony charges and testified in exchange for immunity.

[MayReasonRule]

4. Yep!

[ShepKat]

6. oh, ok...

I knew it wasn't a cut/dry thing.
It's been awhile. Sorry I blew up.

[MayReasonRule]

3. North Was Complicit With The CIA Bringing In Cocaine Through Mena, Arkansas In An Attempt To Destroy Communities

As well as selling arms to dictators in South America.

Oliver North is guilty of crimes against humanity.

Oliver North is a fascist shit.
May he suffer till he dies.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. He wasn't loved in any circles in which I circulated

Treasonous bastard, that one.

[ShepKat]

7. I was a kid

and didn't have much power to pick which adults I had to hang out with.
I know how they think and wanted nothing to do with that mindset

[FSogol]

13. Exactly, don't forget that he used taxpayer money to buy snow tires for his truck & lingerie for his mistress, because

he loved this country so much.

He sold weapon to the enemies of this country. He should be sitting in jail.

[Midnight Writer]

20. He did not blow any whistle. He held a "shredding party" where his staff destroyed incriminating documents.

His remarkably attractive young secretary caused a publicity stir when she testified that she snuck documents out of a secure location by hiding them in her panties.

He was arrested and convicted of misusing funds, but the conviction was overturned.

His big scheme was to sell missiles to Iran (even though that was forbidden by law as Iran was our enemy), put the money for the sales into a slush fund, and used that money to fund Right-Wing death squads in Central America.

This was a test of rehabilitating a villain's reputation by the Republicans. Instead of reputing his illegal actions, the Republican Party made a full-on offensive to portray him as a patriotic hero. It worked. As evidenced by people to this day confused about his role in the scandal, such as thinking he was a whistle-blower.

Oh, and when his boss, Ronald Reagan, was questioned about his illegal activities, he answered "I can't recall" over a hundred times.

[AStern]

21. Fawn Hall was the secretary

nt

[John1956PA]

8. He had his secretary secrete classified documents in her cowboy boots.

That method was in style in the 1980s when it came to making off with classified documents.

[MayReasonRule]

9. I Had Forgotten That Particular Detail...

It does seem now though that I have some vague recollection of such.

An interesting side note indeed!

[Ping Tung]

10. Yes. The creep was busy hiding behind his ribbons and being a veteran.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Seeing him wearing a USMC uniform makes me hurl...

[Ping Tung]

14. I wore one when I couldn't avoid it. In Japan we weren;t allowed to wear them on liberty or leave.

Which was fine with us. Marines were notorious for being broke all the time.

[Norrrm]

12. Ollie wanted to run for Congress in a SW district in VA but he did not want to live with his constituents.

They redrew the district with a pencil thin continuation up the western border of VA that went to his home NW of the DC area.

[republianmushroom]

15. Yup

He should of done 20 years in prison. IMO

[calimary]

16. Yet another reason for me NOT to patronize Pox Noise.

Where scoundrels live to fight another day, even if it’s only on TV.

Not aging well, either. What’s that saying about how you get the face you deserve?

[stollen]

17. Part and parcel

of why the US is a failed nation.

[surfered]

18. I think we was convicted of lying to Congress over the matter.

But the conviction was overturned as he had been given immunity to testify. That’s how I remember it.

[erronis]

19. Do you have a link for this image? "White Rose Resistance"

I have found https://whiteroseresistance.org/ which looks like it might be a source. But I'm guessing the image came from facebook.

Be careful because "thewhiteroseresistance.life" is another anti-abortion abomination.

I do remember this whole Iran-Contra fiasco - I was actually working as a DOD contractor while this was going down.

[AllyCat]

22. So he's a traitor twice?