The Iran-Contra Affair Reagan's Secret Diplomacy

By Thom Hartmann Hartmann George HW Bush and Ronald Reagan were facing the possibility of treason charges. Who did they call? Bill Barr. Though far from the only US president dogged by legal and ethical scandals, Donald Trump now occupies a unique place in history as the first ... Carter, the 38th president, lost his bid for re-election in 1980 to Reagan amid voter disdain for Carter's handling of the Iran hostage crisis ... Consider the Reagan administration's scheme to use Iranian arm sales to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. All the attributes for a Watergate-style ... Moreover, there were 200 people in the Reagan Administration that were under ethical and criminal investigations. The savings and loan scandals, ... This exposé broke the story that unleashed the greatest political scandal of Ronald Reagan's presidency and gave rise to one of the greatest ... The intrigues of President Ronald Reagan's spymaster, William Casey, and two of Reagan's national security advisors, Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter, were ... President Reagan's Iran-Contra Scandal ... For the longest time, Reagan and several other government officials tried to cover up their deals, which didn't work. When these illegal acts were revealed in November 1986, Reagan suffered a greater one-month plunge in public support (from 67 to 46 per cent) than any president ... The Iran-Contra affair, the most serious scandal of the Reagan administration, arose from the intersection of dubious or illegal U.S. efforts to deal with ...