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When the San Jose Mercury News recently published its findings linking the CIA and Contra drug-runners, the rumors flared anew.
If Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had operated like Kenneth Starr, he would have forced Reagan, while president, to repeat or renounce under oath his public lies about Iran-Contra, such as those in his first TV address on the subject, when he declared it "utterly false" that arms had been shipped to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages.
Let's not forget that Toobin, the man who now decries the baleful influence of book deals, first made his mark betraying Iran-Contra special counsel Lawrence Walsh, for whom he worked as a lawyer, by quitting to publish a book about the case before it was even over!
Too much minutiae, not enough revelations is the consensus criticism of the Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor's chronicle of his seven-year investigation.
Similarly, the Post and LAT make much of how Jiang's mention of mistakes was an unprecedented policy concession, but since he didn't say anything at all about Tiananmen square or political prisoners when he used the phrase, why couldn't it be taken to be no more than the Chinese version of Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra "mistakes were made"--in other words merely a simulated apology, not a real one?