AMy Goodman of democracy Now and Robert gates

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Robert Parry on the panel discussing Gates

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1. Amy Goodman is positively the best thing ever happened to journalism

I love her show...I think many here think that she's too liberal for her reporting, and can't stand the fact that she's no particular media lapdog for their pregnant-brained-washed mass media.

I watch her daily newscast religiously. It's refreshing and informative.

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2. Gates involved in 1980 October Surprise!

The 1980 October Surprise involves the idea that Reagan/Bush kept the U.S. hostages being held in Iran from being released before the election. Gates worked for the CIA (US, We the People is who he worked for!) and he somehow was involved in the plot.

Note, some will tell you that the October Surprise was never proven, but many of us keep our ears and minds open to the possibility given that Nixon did the same thing to keep the Vietnam war from ending before the 1968 election. This is a proven fact.

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3. Gates was involved in delivering cluster bombs to Iraq

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President Clinton's Justice Department had put on trial Teledyne Industries, a major military contractor, and two of its mid-level employees, on charges of selling cluster-bomb parts to a Chilean arms manufacturer, Carlos Cardoen. Cardoen, in turn, allegedly shipped finished bombs to Iraq.

Defense attorneys for the Teledyne employees argued that the CIA, as part of a secret operation that has come to be known as "Iraqgate," had authorized the shipments--a claim that the Reagan/Bush administration had long denied. Since taking office in 1993, the Clinton team has continued that GOP position, stating as recently as Jan. 16 that the administration "did not find evidence that U.S. agencies or officials illegally armed Iraq."

But on Jan. 31, this bipartisan dike finally sprang a leak. Howard Teicher, who served on Reagan's National Security Council staff, offered an affidavit in the Teledyne case that declared that CIA director William J. Casey and his deputy, Robert M. Gates, "authorized, approved and assisted" delivery of cluster bombs to Iraq through Cardoen (In These Times, 3/6/95)....
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1291

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4. She's a true journalist. Wish there was a cable channel for her

and the other brave journalists speaking truth to power.
16 hours of programming with overnight repeats. Please!!!!