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28 mag 2024 · Ten more people were also convicted, including National Security Advisors John Poindexter and Robert McFarlane, and Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, who we heard about in the...
11 mag 2024 · A portion of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North's testimony during a hearing on July 7, 1987 is featured. Testimony from former National Security Adviser John Poindexter on July 17, 1987 is highlighted ...
22 mag 2024 · Scalia was discovered in bed by the owner of Cibalo Creek Ranch, where he was staying, one John Poindexter (not the same guy associated with Iran-Contra). Oddly, this Poindexter is allegedly a strong supporter of President Obama.
3 giorni fa · Around this time, Lugar conferred with John Poindexter, a key figure in the scandal. After the 1987 State of the Union Address, Lugar stated that he believed President Reagan had taken responsibility for the Iran–Contra affair by acknowledging that the deal had been unsuccessful.
27 mag 2024 · CIA deputy director John McMahon claimed that he warned Poindexter that such intelligence would give the Iranians "a definite edge," with potentially "cataclysmic results," and that he was able to persuade North to provide Iran with only a segment of the intelligence.[85]
2 giorni fa · Both Shultz and Weinberger, as well as White House Chief of Staff Don Regan, objected to selling weapons directly to Iran, which the U.S. had declared a state sponsor of terrorism. As Weinberger’s diary reveals, Reagan pushed for the sales anyway, even if they were illegal.
15 mag 2024 · The government itself, through DARPA, had attempted a program called Total Information Awareness to do something similar before it was scrapped over civil liberties concerns; Karp and Thiel met with John Poindexter, the head of that program, early on for discussions. 60 Later, the NSA would effectively succeed at doing the same thing ...
