Reply #15: When Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Texas) asked about it, he was told to save it for a closed hearing. [View All]

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Thank you, Robert Paulsen! To help avoid this American round-up, a bit not found in most of America's history books:



Ollie North consults with his attorney, Brendan Sullivan,
around the time of the following exchange during
the House-Senate Iran Contra hearings:

Killing the Constitution: How I Became a Radical Twenty Years Ago Today

by Sam Husseini
Published on Friday, July 13, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

EXCERPT...

During the 1987 Iran-Contra hearings, the following exchange took place between Representative Jack Brooks of Texas, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, and Brendan Sullivan, attorney for Colonel Oliver North, during North's testimony before Congress:

REP. BROOKS: Colonel North, in your work at the NSC, were you not assigned, at one time, to work on plans for the ” continuity of government ” in the event of a major disaster?

BRENDAN SULLIVAN (North’s lawyer): Mr. Chairman?

SEN. INOUYE: I believe that question touches upon a highly sensitive and classified area so may I request that you not touch on that, sir?

REP. BROOKS: I was particularly concerned, Mr. Chairman, because I read in Miami papers, and several others, that there had been a plan developed by that same agency, a contingency plan in the event of emergency, that would suspend the American constitution. And I was deeply concerned about it and wondered if that was the area in which he had worked. I believe that it was and I wanted to get his confirmation.

SEN. INOUYE; May I most respectfully request that that matter not be touched upon at this stage. If we wish to get into this, I’m certain arrangements can be made for an executive session. .

SOURCE: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/13/2510/

Third World Traveler does a bang-up job on this important, uh, issue, as well:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Moyers/Democracy_TSG.html