In November 1986, the first pieces of Iran-Contra became known

[Effete Snob]

On 19 December 1986, Lawrence Walsh was appointed special prosecutor.

I'm sure he was real busy in the last two weeks of the year.

In March 1988, 15 months later, Oliver North was indicted on 16 felony counts in a complex Executive Branch conspiracy case.

[kairos12]

1. Raygun got away it.

[Effete Snob]

2. Pretty sure that Garland is going to dig him up and indict him in good time

Just wait.

[gratuitous]

3. And in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 1992

Lame duck President George HW Bush pardoned Caspar Weinberger, Elliott Abrams, former assistant secretary of state; Robert C. McFarlane, former national security adviser, and former CIA officials Clair E. George, Alan D. Fiers and Duane Clarridge, effectively decapitating the investigation, and canceling the trial that was set to begin in just a few days. According to Walsh, Bush was a subject of the investigation, and the trial of Weinberger and the rest would put the lie to Bush's contention that he was "out of the loop" on the whole arms-for-hostages swap.

And no, this wasn't mentioned very prominently if at all when Poppy died in 2018. Isn't that strange?

[MerryHolidays]

4. "On 19 December 1986, Lawrence Walsh was appointed special prosecutor."

Yup....that's a huge difference between Iran Contra and Watergate vs. the Insurrection: there was a special prosecutor or independent counsel in the first two. By contrast, Merrick Garland and the DoJ are directly tackling the Insurrection cases.

Note: Lawrence Walsh was NOT a "special prosecutor". He was "Independent Counsel." In Watergate, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, and Henry Ruth were indeed the Special Prosecutors.