NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
Kissinger "We believe peace is at hand"
10-26-72
Hurt Democrats chances
Wineburger implicated in Iran=Contra 4 days before election in 1992
Hurt GHW Bushs chances
weekend before 2000 election, drunk driving ticket of GW Bush came out
Hurt GW Bushs chances
This is hardly new
So the Reagan administration indicted Weinberger to fuck over G Bush Sr. in 1988? good one.
He was indicted in 92.
Does the administration convene grand juries, or does Congress?
Fair enough, my bad on the year.
REAGAN's atty general Edwin Meese appointed Lawrence Walsh special counsel to investigate Iran/Contra in 1986. Walsh indicted Weinberger.
Actually "The Special Division of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit appointed Lawrence E. Walsh as Independent Counsel on December 19, 1986."
The Office of Independent Counsel (now defunct, and not to be confused with Special Counsel) also was not under the restriction of the Hatch Act.
The Office of Independent Counsel did not fall under the executive branch.
I went by this:
On Dec. 19, 1986, then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III appointed him special prosecutor to launch an inquiry into what at the time was considered the worst government scandal since Watergate. Mr. Walsh spent nearly seven years and $39 million as the special prosecutor in the Iran-contra scandal.
The investigation would conclude that the administration of President Ronald Reagan had illegally sold arms to Iran to win the release of U.S. hostages in the Middle East and had given the proceeds, in defiance of Congress, to a rebel group known as the “contras,” who were fighting to overthrow the Marxist government of Nicaragua.
Lawrence E. Walsh, Iran-contra special prosecutor, dies at 102