Jimmy Carter: "I don't pay any attention to criminal Oliver North"
Go, President Carter! You tell 'em!
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/jimmy-carter-i-dont-pay-any-attention-criminal
..."ERIN BURNETT: I’m curious what you think about this because I know this has to frustrate you on some level. The right links you to President Obama all the time. Former Reagan official Oliver North just recently said: ‘President Obama showed a failure of leadership with Ukraine. Putin has handed this by what is essentially Jimmy Carter on steroids.’ How does that make you feel?
JIMMY CARTER: I don’t pay any attention to Oliver North and I’m kind of sorry to hear you quote him. He was a criminal during the Iranian Contra crisis and was convicted of betraying the best interest of our country. And of course he is famous now because he is a constant critic of the democratic party and the democrats. But I don’t worry about that. As of a matter of fact, I don’t think anyone could have moved more strongly against the Soviet Union when they went into Afghanistan than I did."...
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The man knows a criminal when he sees one. 
and twice for president of the USA. His loss to the Upper Right-Hand Square was a huge, huge tragedy for this country. 
Why aren't our elected Democratic officials talking like he is?
Because they ALL are beholden to the CORPORATOCRACY! Once that link is broken, we can get back to being awesome. Until then, we head down the road to failed empires.
North deserved more time in the clink, as did ALL the BAD actors of Iran Contra, INCLUDING the 41st POTUS! 
(Quote from the Crooks & Liars link cited above)
In an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell on "Meet the Press" last week, Carter said that Obama was the only President who has not asked him for any advice.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024714784/
From "Jimmy Carter's Forgotten History Lesson" (Salon.com)
"President Carter started no wars, bombed no civilians, and committed no crimes against the Constitution.
He did not sell weapons to terrorists or spy on his political opponents."
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/19/jimmy_carters_forgotten_history_lesson/
One has to wonder what a Carter 2nd term might have been like.
If I'm not mistaken, Carter won the first of two debates with Reagan.
Fearing that he would also win the second debate, William Casey arranged for White House CIA official Donald Gregg to copy Carters notes for the 2nd debate, smuggle them out of the White House, and then George Will used the stolen debate notes to coach Reagan before the 2nd debate, which Reagan "won" because he knew ahead of time what Carter would say.
("Well, there you go again"
I still wonder why Casey, Gregg, Will and all others who were involved in "Debate-Gate" weren't tried for treason?
Isn't illegally copying the President's secret notes for the 2nd debate & smuggling them out of the White House a treasonous act?
And then there was "October Surprise", in which Casey & other Rethugs met secretly with top Iranian officials (who were about to release the hostages) & told them that if they waited until Reagan was elected, and THEN released the hostages, they would be rewarded by being able to buy advanced military aircraft and weapons, which the Iranians desperately needed to fight Sadaam Husein in the Iran-Iraq War. (Selling weapons to terrorists)
Meeting covertly with foreign officials and asking them to delay the release of the hostages in a "quid pro quo" to sell them advanced military weapons?
Wasn't that also a treasonous act?
Oliver North is a disgrace to his uniform; and he deserved to go to jail.
IMO, William Casey, Donald Gregg, George Will et.al. also deserved to go to jail...for treasonous acts!
The man who wrote the following was a DEA agent, stationed in Central America. Celerino "Cele" Castillo witnessed Ollie North's people unloading guns and loading cocaine for the trip North (no pun intended). The testimony also shows why the pukes hate the guy who has the goods on them -- John Kerry.
CONTRA-INTELLIGENCE
ON OLIVER L. NORTH
By Celerino "Cele" Castillo, 3rd
Former Federal Drug Agent and Author of:
Powderburns- Cocaine, Contras & the Drug War
EXCERPT...
Several years ago, the extreme right arm of the Christian Coalition selected to support Oliver North for U.S. Senate. Their support backfired and North became one of two Republicans who lost the elections that year. During North's campaign, I traveled to the Virginia to educate concern citizens on Oliver North. I went out to "grassroots" communities, and educated them on the criminal activities that Oliver North had been involved in during the 1980s. I went as far as challenging North to a debate. Of course, he refused.
During his failed 1994 campaign, he frequently claimed that there was no basis for any charges of his complicity in drug running, because as he keeps saying, "I'm the most investigated man on this planet." The truth of the matter is that the Iran-Contra special prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, never investigated the drug trafficking allegations, because he did not consider it part of his mandate. The special prosecutor's original mandate from Congress was defined very narrowly, concentrating on the Iranian arms sales, the "diversion" of funds from the Iranian arms sales to the Contra operation, and on the Contra support operation as a violation of U.S. law.
During all the misdirected hoopla about Iran-Contra, the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee (known as the "Kerry committee"
continued its work. Jack Blum, an investigator for Senator Kerry, testified to the committee on Feb. 11, 1987 that the Contras move drugs "not by the pound, not by the bag, but by the ton, by the cargo planeloads."
In 1987, Henry Hyde, as a member of the congressional Iran-contra committee and a defense attorney, helped steer the panel away from any serious investigation of the contra-cocaine connection. His focus was to spare President Ronald Reagan and his vice president, George Bush from possible impeachment over the Iran-contra scandal and related drug crimes implicating the Nicaraguan contra army.
CONTINUED...
http://www.drugwar.com/castillonorthmay1104.shtm
Plane loads of illegal arms flown down to the Contras.
Plane loads of illegal cocaine flown back to the states.
No wasted trips.
Were it not for Eugene Hasenfus, they probably would never have been caught; and, thanks to
Lawrence Walsh, the plane loads of cocaine flown back to the U.S. were never investigated
(Because they weren't part of his "mandate"
as the zombie called him, won the Medal of Honor in WWII, and lost most of an arm doing it while serving in the most highly decorated unit in the history of the United States. After the war, that "Jap" served in the US Senate for 40 years. Daniel Inouye served his country above and beyond the call of duty for his entire life. Zombie and Ollie should have done half as much.
such bullshit right back at them -- calling them out on their idiotic lines of questioning, false premises, and blatant stupidity. Hurray for Jimmy Carter!
