Robert Gates was Dep Director of Cental Intelligence during Iran Contra...what knowledge if any did he have?
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Find something or somebody in Washington DC that is/was non-political, if he was given a directive and did what he was told then that is all that matters. People in the intelligence agencies or security committees leaking information to the press is for political gain is not  "conscientous", it's treason.  The Contras were percieved as a greater threat than the Iranians, and the Soviet influence in the Middle East a greater threat than militant Islam. Now Ortega has come back into power, the Russians and China aiding, arming and encouraging Iran, Syria and North Korea. The situation has decayed into further chaos, but he's familiar with all the players.
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Try cia.com,  I think it has that kind of stuff in it.
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The whole story\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_Defense
986227
He is not claiming it.  He is simply deprograming him of all the BS Rummy, Rove and Chaney but in him.\n\nThat is why Baker and Gates are back in the picture.
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No.  He alleged that the Nicaraguan Contras were selling drugs in the United States to fund their activities in South America.  This has been pretty much proven true through numerous documents and interviews.\n\nWhat he implied in his reporting and following speeches was that the CIA knew this was going on and, since they supported the Contras, allowed it to continue unhindered by police.  The has never been proven (although most related parts of the investigation were sealed as classified documents).\n\nThe biggest claim of the CIA-Contra link came from two drug dealers.  Norwin Meneses Cantarero, who was a former Contra turned drug-lord claimed he was able to operate in the US because the CIA kept the police away.\nAnother was drug kingpin, Oscar Danilo Blandon, who during the early 1980s, was the largest supplier of cocaine in the United States.  Upon his arrest, he claimed he was getting his drugs from Nicaragua, and the CIA was helping him.  Both were seen as drug-dealers trying to salvage themselves through conspiracy theories, but their claims still remain and others have come forward to both verify and disprove their claims.\n\nBut as to the idea of your question that he proved the CIA introduced drugs into black communities to destroy them, it isn't true.  He alleged that the CIA protected drug dealers to give money to the Contras.  And Cocaine was just as destructive to white communities during the time of the alleged CIA-Iran-Contra affair as it was to black ones.
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Granted Rumsfeld is on the way out, but will Gates be any better? We can only hope.. I would like to see someone in that position that has some upper level tactical military experience instead of a CIA crone of the Bush family. Keep your fingers crossed !
989578
Yup..trainded and funded by the CIA..oh, and Saddam was btw...he was given chemical weapons by the US...oh, and so was the current Iranian regime! The Americans didnt like the democratically elected left-wing government, so they imposed a right-wing military coup..they sparked off the islamic revolution..etc etc...sad world hey?
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He will have a bulge in his pocket and a earpiece, you can bet on that, do not expect him to think for himself. I bet before it is over some neo-con idiot will blame Clinton for Iran. Any takers.
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It's not that secret, you can find a copy at\nhttp://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_documents/ahmadinejad0509.pdf\n\nIt's a bit long-winded, but worth a read. He makes some interesting points, but they are wasted on dubya, who wants Iran do do whatever he says, but refuses to discuss anything with them or listen to anything they have to say.
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Here's his bio:\n\nhttp://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2006/11/2859_bio_of_defense.html
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Bush senior was the head of the CIA during the Carter administration.\n\nDuring this time the CIA was illegally selling arms to the contra rebels in Nicaragua and giving the money to Iran to keep the hostages that they took from the US embassy.\n\nAt the same time the Republicans were accusing the Democrats of not doing anything to get the hostages released thus swaying our own presidential election allowing Regan to get into office.
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George H.W. Bush, himself a former CIA director.\n\nThis is the same CIA that George W. Bush has been saying gave him the bad information that caused the war in Iraq.\n\nSomething of a .logical inconsistency? The consistency is in the lies, they never stop, just stream on and on...
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110306K.shtml\n\nI didn't think anyone could be that crazy, but apparently the Republican majority required the Admin. to publish facts regarding pre-war intelligence to prove (politically) that Saddam had WMD's...and some fool put that info on the net in Arabic
742144
No, Robert Gates, the former CIA Director and the president of Texas A and M university is to be the new defence secretary of America is going to replace Dolnald Rumsfeld.
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9-11  Are you serious?  I watch it the conspiracy is the oldest wrong info around.  My father work in Homeland Security.  The facts are what we saw the stories people tell are just that.  We were attacked!!!!
930654
It's a common misconception that he was behind the break-in and attempted bugging. There is no proof he knew about this scheme. What he was accused of was trying to cover up the involvement of people connected with the White House to the break-in, by trying to get the CIA to ask the FBI not to investigate in certain areas. This was on the famous 'smoking gun' tape.
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it's bill gates. this source is from Nov 6, 05.