In Tuesday's column in the Daily Sun,
Oliver North blasts the Obama administration, referring to the coming year
as a "year of cover ups" ( the Bengazi disaster, the "Fast and Furious" operation, with a preemptive swipe at Hilary Clinton and John Kerry.) One thing certain is that Olive North would know about cover ups,
having been a principal inceptor of one of the most significant cover ups of
the twentieth century.
While serving
as a Marine, having taken the oath many of us took, which
includes the words "support and defend the Constitution... etc," In November 1986, North was summoned to testify before a Congressional committee investigating Iran–Contra. During those hearings, North admitted that he had lied to Congress and conspired to violated the Boland amendment, for
which, among other crimes, he was charged. He defended his actions, stating that
the Contras (who butchered nuns, priests
and other innocents) were "freedom
fighters, and characterized the
blatantly illegal Iran–Contra scheme as
a "neat idea," admitting shredding government documents related to his
Contra and Iranian activities and altering
official records to delete references to
assistance to the Contras.
So Why attack John Kerry? I can think of three reasons. First, John Kerry had the nerve as a young naval officer seeing through the fog of war in Vietnam to resign and come back to protest it. He's not the only man to honorably serve during that period who rejected that particular action. I and many of my fellow submariners were of like mind. Second, he's the presumptive next Secretary of State, and North will back stab him before he even is sworn in, because that's how North works. Third, and maybe most significant in North's paranoid mind, is that in 1986 the John Kerry/ Christopher Dodd subcommittee discovered that North and others had created a Contra network that attracted drug traffickers
looking to cover their operations, then
turned a blind eye to repeated reports of drug smuggling related to the
Contras, actively working with known drug
lords such as Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to assist the Contras. Cleaning up North's mess involved illegally entering Panama and seizing Noriega. Instead of a Court
Martial (richly deserved) North was allowed to retire with full benefits. Makes you
wonder who was covering who, doesn't it? Actually it doesn't make you wonder. North was taking the bullet (so to speak - being allowed to retire with full benefits and pension after a felony is not much of a bullet) to stop further investigation of Reagan, Bush, Weinberger, and the rest of the "unindicted co-conspirators" as Nixon had been referred to.
Oliver North is an admitted felon who broke his oath, violated federal law and abetted drug dealers! Any claim of moral high ground is ludicrous, just another example of the vicious partisan
sniping which is his stock in trade. Oliver North is the Donald Trump of journalism with slightly better hair. Enough, already, please.
Mike Dorman
Poinciana
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