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• Saturday, November 22, 2008 09:54 PM

  Robert Gates: Iran/Contra and "cooking" intelligence - Link Dump

  Chapter 16 from Lawrence Walsh's Iran/Contra Report

  http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_16.htm

  An excerpt from Lawrence Walsh's book "Firewall: the Iran/Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up." and a good summery of Chapter 16. From the link:

  We told them that we did not think we had enough corroborating information to indict Robert Gates, but that his answers to these questions had been unconvincing. We did not believe that he could have forgotten a warning of North's diversion of the arms sale proceeds to the Contras. The mingling of two covert activities that were of intense personal interest to the president was not something the second-highest officer in the CIA would forget.

  http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh11082006.html

  Two links from The National Security Archive at GWU.

  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB208/index.htm

  http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm

  An article by Robert Parry

  http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/110906.html

  An interview of Robert Parry and Melvin Goodman by Amy Goodman

  http://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/9/defense_secretary_nominee_robert_gates_tied

  Another article by Robert Parry

  However, if Obama does keep Gates on, the new President will be employing someone who embodies many of the worst elements of U.S. national security policy over the past three decades, including responsibility for what Obama himself has fingered as a chief concern, "politicized intelligence."

  http://www.truthout.org/111408A

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