Iran-Contra Affair was TREASON that went unpunished.

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75. Sneer defended War Inc.

...and stood up for Empire...

Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs

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Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), the chair of the Senate Select Committee, called the hearing to order by saying he hoped that the facts of the “sad affair” would be revealed. Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN), the chair of the House Select Committee, predicted that the hearings would prove that “many things went wrong.” Sen. Warren Rudman (R-NH), vice chair of the Senate committee, asked if the “foreign policy process” was “flawed” or “simply ignored.” Rep. Dick Cheney (R-WY), the ranking Republican on the House committee, largely defended President Ronald Reagan and the power of the Executive Branch.

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http://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/thehearings.php

...officially reported to the American people that there was no conspiracy...

Minority Report

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The bottom line, however, is that the mistakes of the Iran-Contra Affair were just that — mistakes in judgment, and nothing more. There was no constitutional crisis, no systematic disrespect for ‘the rule of law,’ no grand conspiracy, and no Administration-wide dishonesty or coverup. In fact, the evidence will not support any of the more hysterical conclusions the Committees’ Report tries to reach.

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http://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/h-thereport.php

...then he spearheaded the program to piratize the Pentagon.

Cheney's Multi-Million Dollar Revolving Door

News: As Bush Sr.'s secretary of defense, Dick Cheney steered millions of dollars in government business to a private military contractor -- whose parent company just happened to give him a high-paying job after he left the government.

By Robert Bryce
Mother Jones
August 2, 2000

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In 1992, the Pentagon, then under Cheney's direction, paid Texas-based Brown & Root Services $3.9 million to produce a classified report detailing how private companies -- like itself -- could help provide logistics for American troops in potential war zones around the world. BRS specializes in such work; from 1962 to 1972, for instance, the company worked in the former South Vietnam building roads, landing strips, harbors, and military bases. Later in 1992, the Pentagon gave the company an additional $5 million to update its report. That same year, BRS won a massive, five-year logistics contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to work alongside American GIs in places like Zaire, Haiti, Somalia, Kosovo, the Balkans, and Saudi Arabia.

After Bill Clinton's election cost Cheney his government job, he wound up in 1995 as CEO of Halliburton Company, the Dallas-based oil services giant -- which just happens to own Brown & Root Services. Since then, Cheney has collected more than $10 million in salary and stock payments from the company. In addition, he is currently the company's largest individual shareholder, holding stock and options worth another $40 million. Those holdings have undoubtedly been made more valuable by the ever-more lucrative contracts BRS continues to score with the Pentagon.

Between 1992 and 1999, the Pentagon paid BRS more than $1.2 billion for its work in trouble spots around the globe. In May of 1999, the US Army Corps of Engineers re-enlisted the company's help in the Balkans, giving it a new five-year contract worth $731 million.

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/08/cheneys-multi-million-dollar-revolving-door

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