Surprise! Ollie North lied about Kerry!

[central scrutinizer]

be sure to click on the link - Ollie's mug (or should I say smug) shot from his felony arrest is at the top of the page.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htm

excerpt:

Washington D.C., 26 February 2004 - Diaries, e-mail, and memos of Iran-contra figure Oliver
North, posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive, directly contradict his
criticisms yesterday of Sen. John Kerry's 1988 Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee report on
the ways that covert support for the Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s undermined the U.S. war on
drugs.

Mr. North claimed to talk show hosts Hannity & Colmes that the Kerry report was "wrong," that
Sen. Kerry "makes this stuff up and then he can't justify it," and that "The fact is nobody in the
government of the United States, going all the way back to the earliest days of this under Jimmy
Carter, ever had anything to do with running drugs to support the Nicaraguan resistance. Nobody
in the government of the United States. I will stand on that to my grave."

The Kerry subcommittee did not report that U.S. government officials ran drugs, but rather, that
Mr. North, then on the National Security Council staff at the White House, and other senior
officials created a privatized contra network that attracted drug traffickers looking for cover for
their operations, then turned a blind eye to repeated reports of drug smuggling related to the
contras, and actively worked with known drug smugglers such as Panamanian dictator Manuel
Noriega to assist the contras. The report cited former Drug Enforcement Administration head
John Lawn testifying that Mr. North himself had prematurely leaked a DEA undercover operation,
jeopardizing agents' lives, for political advantage in an upcoming Congressional vote on aid to the
contras (p.121).

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. Is Oliver North still running cocaine from Panama to sell to children?

Or did he stop doing that?

[packerssuck]

2. It's amazing to me...

How these Faux news people blatantly lie. These lies are so transparent that it's obvious that serial lying is part of the Faux news culture. Last night, Oreilly said that Kerry and Bush were tied in the polls. Hannity said that North wasn't indicted. etc. etc.

[MichaelHarris]

3. Not anymore

He runs cocaine for Fox News now.

[Octafish]

4. Ollie North, Superfly

This is Your Goverment On Drugs

EXCERPT...

The CIA-contra-cocaine connection is a complicated conundrum. One of the biggest names in the business was Manuel Noriega, the former dictator of Panama. To comprehend the government's role in cocaine traffic, Noriega is useful as a kind of focal point. He was on the payroll of the CIA at the same time he worked for the Medellin Cartel for four million dollars per month. The Medellin Cartel is the Colombian cocaine syndicate, responsible for most of the cocaine that enters the U.S.A. Noriega was also connected to George Bush, and through Bush to Oliver North. They used Noriega as a conduit for getting arms to the contras. Bush, North, and other government insiders at the CIA and the National Security Council (which under Reagan got heavily into covert operations) most likely knew about Noriega's involvement with drugs.

Revelations about Noriega, and about direct contra and CIA involvement with cocaine smuggling, found their way into the public record via a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by John Kerry. In 1986, Senator Kerry received information that the Costa Rican branch of a Miami-based shrimp company Ocean Hunter, widely regarded as a drug-running front, had received checks for more than $200,000 dollars from the U.S. government. The money was part of the "humanitarian aid" allocated for the contras by Congress.

Wondering why the cash was channeled to this shrimp-and-dope outfit, Kerry went to the FBI asking for an inquiry. Instead, the FBI investigated Kerry himself. According to FBI reports, North asked the FBI to investigate Kerry, to find links between the Massachusetts senator and th Nicaraguan Sandinista government. The investigation was reportedly initiated by a crack FBI counterintelligence group usually employed to track foreign agents in the United States. To North's distress, the agents did not find evidence to follow through with a full-scale investigation.

North may have had reason to worry. The Drug Enforcement Administration had knowledge in the fall of 1986 that the flight crews making clandestine arm deliveries to the contras were flying cocaine into the U.S. on thei. return trips. When DEA agents confronted one of the pilots, he told them he had White House protection. He dropped North' name. The agents didn't pursue the North connection, dismissing the pilot's statement as "a bluff." Accounts of secret testimony before Kerry's committee revealed that Felix Rodriguez, CIA agent and friend of George Bush, arranged a 10-million dollar donation to the contras direct from the Medellin cartel. The cartel's chief accountant and money launderer (at least until he was arrested), Ramon Milian Rodriguez, testifiedto the donation. Milian Rodriguez is said to have conveye~ $180, 000 in campaign contributions from the cartel to Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential campaign, and was invited to Reagan's inauguration as a gesture of thanks from the grateful candidate.

CONTINUED...

http://www.conspire.com/drugscia2.html

[blm]

10. And EXACTLY why the GOP did NOT want to run against Kerry

His investigations into BCCI, IranContra and CIA drugrunning exposed the Reagan and Bush administrations' corruption. Many of the younger voters will be hearing about these matters for the first time, while older voters will be reminded of the lies, corruption and cover ups by some of the same folks who support Bush2 and this administration.

[H2O Man]

5. Gosh!

A sociopath actually lied? Are you sure?

[w4rma]

6. Man bites dog, again. Ollie North lies, again. (n/t)

[adadem]

7. Lets see

it's not ok to show a boob on tv but it is ok to show a boob that lies.

[emulatorloo]

8. This is a picture I will always treasure

Thank you so much for posting this.

[Octafish]

9. Nice mug shot. Here's the rest of the story Uncle Sam forgot...

Censored News: Oliver North & Co. Banned from Costa Rica

Few individuals fascinate the US media like Ollie North. Few subjects grab more media attention than drugs. Few democracies win more media praise than Costa Rica. Put these three into a single scandal and it spells Front Page News, right? Wrong. What it spells is C-E-N-S-O-R-S-H-I-P.

In July, North and other major contragate figures were barred from Costa Rica. The order was issued by none other than Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. President Arias was acting on recommendations from a Costa Rican congressional commission investigating drug trafficking.

The commission concluded that the contra re-supply network in Costa Rica which North coordinated from the White House doubled as a drug smuggling operation.

The narcotics commission started probing the contra network centered around the northern Costa Rican ranch of US-born John Hull because of "the quantity and frequency of the shipment of drugsthat passed through the zone." North's personal notebook mentioned" the necessity of giving Mr. Hull protection." (San Juan Star,Puerto Rico, 7/22/89).

CONTINUED...

http://www.fair.org/extra/8910/north-banned.html

[Wonk]

15. Makes a nice avatar, too. Anyone who wants to (and can) is welcome to use

this

[blm]

16. That's hilarious.

Good one.

[Mountainman]

11. Is this related to the crack epidemic in south central LA?

I remember that the Mercury News had story about raising money for the contras by selling drugs in LA then the reporter was trashed.

What gets me about that time was that they were selling weapons to Iran that they did not own yet made a profit off of it. There were three or four hands that the weapons went through and each of them charged a fee. The weapons belonged to the tax payers. What gave them the right to sell them and make money on the side for it?

And North got that security fence around his house for free.

Reagan's administration showed that the right does not give a shit about the rule of law when it comes to helping out their friends.

[blm]

14. Yes...it was Kerry who uncovered the CIA drugrunning.

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[WhoCountsTheVotes]

12. He wrote about "kilos" of cocaine flying into the country

in his OWN diary. Who does he think he's kidding?

[beanball]

13. Thanks for the mug shots

of that felon Ollie"the pusher"North,I am placing him with the rest of the right wing nuts,LuciAnn,Shrub,Oil Can Chaney,Colon Bowell,D'Ann Colter they are all hanging on my wall of shame in my make shift outhouse.(looking good)