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According to Judge Walsh's final report:
Oliver L. North was "Indicted March 16, 1988, on 16 felony counts. After standing trial on 12, North was convicted May 4, 1989 of three charges: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. A three-judge appeals panel on July 20, 1990, vacated North's conviction for further proceedings to determine whether his immunized testimony influenced witnesses in the trial. The Supreme Court declined to review the case. Judge Gesell dismissed the case September 16, 1991, after hearings on the immunity issue, on the motion of Independent Counsel."
Oliver north is a goddamn criminal
Wikipedia said:North came into the public spotlight due to his participation in the Iran-Contra Affair, in which he was the chief coordinator of the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua. He was responsible for the establishment of a covert network used for the purposes of aiding the Contras. U.S. funding of the Contras by appropriated funds spent by intelligence agencies had been prohibited by the Boland Amendment. Funding was facilitated through Palmer National Bank of Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1983 by Harvey McLean, Jr., a businessman from Shreveport, Louisiana. It was initially funded with $2.8 million dollars to McLean from Herman K. Beebe. Oliver North used this bank during the Iran-Contra scandal by funneling money from his shell organization, the "National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty", through Palmer National Bank to the Contras.
According to the National Security Archive, in an August 23, 1986 e-mail to John Poindexter, Oliver North described a meeting with a representative of Panamanian President Manuel Noriega: "You will recall that over the years Manuel Noriega in Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship", North writes before explaining Noriega's proposal. If U.S. officials can "help clean up his image" and lift the ban on arms sales to the Panamanian Defense Force, Noriega will "'take care of' the Sandinista leadership for us."
North tells Poindexter that Noriega can assist with sabotage against the Sandinistas, and suggests paying Noriega a million dollars cash; from "Project Democracy" funds raised from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran – for the Panamanian leader's help in destroying Nicaraguan economic installations.[5]
Wikipedia said:During the early and mid 1980s, Lt. Colonel North was alleged to participate in organizing the transportation of cocaine and marijuana from the various sites in Central and South America into the United States as a means of funding the Contra rebels. Congressional records show North was tasked with finding funding “outside the CIA” after the Boland Amendment cut off funding for the Contras in October, 1984.[9] Declassified interviews taken during Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh's investigation into Iran-Contra, as well as North’s handwritten journal entries, detail an extensive operation involving civilian and military personnel from the U.S. and various Central American countries.
On February 10, 1986, Robert Owen, North’s liaison with the Contras, wrote North regarding a plane being used to carry "humanitarian aid" to the Contras that was previously used to transport drugs. The plane belonged to the Miami-based company Vortex, which is run by Michael Palmer, one of the largest marijuana traffickers in the United States. Despite Palmer's long history of drug smuggling, Palmer receives over $300,000 from the Nicaraguan Humanitarian Aid Office (NHAO) -- an office overseen by Oliver North, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Elliott Abrams, and CIA officer Alan Fiers -- to ferry supplies to the Contras.[10]
What a nice guy.
*Bold indicates "doublethink" switch must be on.
Geeeez, how is this guy NOT on the walls of the Sisitine Chapel?
Oliver north is a goddamn criminal
vacated or not, oliver north should be sitting in a fucking jail cell right this moment. Justice was not served when all it comes down to is who you know.
Oliver North did as he was told. Anyone that thinks a LtCol in the US Marine Corps has the power to do what North was accused of needs to see me about buying some land.
Wht it comes down to is Oliver North captured the attention of a nation with his steadfast refusal to implicate his seniors.
It's easy to sit here and judge. Wait until you are given an unlawful, but morally correct order before judging someone in such a harsh manner. Everything's not so simple when you're out there.
Oliver North did as he was told. Anyone that thinks a LtCol in the US Marine Corps has the power to do what North was accused of needs to see me about buying some land.
Wht it comes down to is Oliver North captured the attention of a nation with his steadfast refusal to implicate his seniors.
It's easy to sit here and judge. Wait until you are given an unlawful, but morally correct order before judging someone in such a harsh manner. Everything's not so simple when you're out there.
I think he was a patriotic American who did illegal things that he thought (or knew) were supported by higher ups his chain of command.
He was, and he knew he was, their palusible deniability fall guy.
The man has stones!
I object to what he did, but I understand why he did it, and think his motive was pure even if his methods were not.
His motive was pure? He shielded the real criminal, the commander in chief, who NEGOTIATED WITH TERRORISTS holding Americans hostage and compensated them for their actions by selling them weapons and funneling the money to an international terrorist organization making most of its money by trafficking cocaine into the United States. But then again, Regan had a love of international terrorists so this is not surprising. What is surprising is that anyone would give these criminals the benefit of the doubt. Its kind of like when bin Laden was helping kill Russians... he and people like him got the benefit of the doubt.
Ya cause anyone alleged to have done something by a partisan witch hunt must have done it, right? Remind me again when he was tried and convicted on that charge?
Ok, if you want to say that the National Security Archive, Lawrence Walsh, Robert Owen, and North himself partisan hacks... Which I guess you'd be right to a degree...
But fine, you're right. Let's drop all the other things and go with what we know- he was partly in charge of an international terrorist organization that brutalized Nicaragua and distabilized all of Central America. Still pretty criminal, if that had ever been the issue.
