Amen
Congress passed an ill-conceived law - "the Boland Amendment" ... WHICH WAS FOLLOWED. North, et al, looked for legal loopholes to allow continued support to the Contras.
THERE WERE NO LAWS VIOLATED!!! NONE. ZIP! NADA!!
Congress (the DemoScums) were really pissed off because they wanted to aid the Sandanistas by preventing any aid to go to the Contras, so rather than pushing a bill that directly supported the Sandanistas, and gave a sense of Congress that the Contras were the bad guys, and the Sandanistas were the good guys, and NO EFFORT WHAT SO EVER should be extended to the Contras ....(now if they had passed that law .. then Ollie would be guilty of violating it ... BUT NOT THE BOLAND AMENDMENT, which merely stipulated no appropriated funds could be used to aid the Contras ..... so Ollie used non-appropriated funds!!)
The Democrats are fond of claiming that there were many illegal actions by the Reagan team ... and there are no convictions to support their claims (except a few "plead guilty to a trivial offense to avoid millions of dollars of legal fees fighting an outrageous claim of illegal actions that, while likely to win in court, would cost big time, and would not be re-imbursable.
But then look at all the illegal actions of the Clinton team, and many convictions .....
The only real scandal about Iran-Contra is the desire by the Dem's to act as independent "Secretaries of State" to have conflicting U.S. State policies ... passing un Constitutional laws (Boland Amendment), and the naked support for Communist regimes over freedom fighters!
And there was no policy of selling drugs. There might have been some contract persons working for the CIA who were "free-lancing" on the side, selling drugs ... but I seriously doubt that the Reagan team would have supported that in ANY WAY. Now maybe some drug smuggling happened, and the Clinton-Mena connection looks interesting enough to researh further, but I would bet you big money that there would be no connection to the Reagan administration! And if there was any individual doing illegal activities, it would have never been condoned, but would have been prosecuted fully!!
There might have been some "criminal activities" in and around the Iran-Contra affair, but individuals trying to profit is different than a wholesale policy of doing wrong. (See for example, the acquisition of over 1000 FBI files, the firing of the White House Travel Staff and putting friends (and a mistress) in charge of the new Travel Staff. See the extortion of people with past misdeeds in the FBI files ... smearing people around the time of the Impeachment hearings. Now there is clear evidence of an Administration Policy to do illegal things.) Can you show where Reagan or any of his high level staff made an effort to profit (or get sexual favors) from any mis-deeds?? I don't think that there is "anything" there.
Mike