Attention old people....

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At least old enough to remember

-- the Reagan victory and
-- the rumors that George HW Bush had gone to Paris to negotiate a trade including arms for a delayed
release date for the US hostages, a date after the voting in November 1980.

Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Hyde
By Jerry Meldon
03/27/2008

Damned if Consortium.News didn't just run a story on this. It was apparently more than a set of
rumors. This entire article is worth reading. It's about Lee Hamilton but the facts discussed
are about the furious efforts of Bush I to squelch an investigation on the Paris trip conducted by
Hamilton and Henry Hyde

"They have sought to block, limit, restrict and discredit the investigation in every possible way … President Bush’s recent outbursts his whereabouts in mid-October of 1980 are disingenuous at best since the administration has refused to make available the documents and the witnesses that could finally and conclusively clear Mr. Bush.”

Journalist Parry adds: “The Bush administration flatly refused to give any more information to the House task force unless it agreed never to interview alibi witness and never to release name. Amazingly, the task force accepted the administration’s terms.”

Hamilton’s treatment of Mr. Bush was outrageously deferential. But it was pit-bull-like compared to how he handled the attempts to provide the late Mr. Casey with an alibi.

The Republicans first insisted that Casey could not have flown to meet with the Iranians when it was alleged that he did, because on that particular weekend he had attended a historical conference in London.

But that alibi had to be ditched when historian and conference attendee Robert Dallek reported that Casey had missed a strategically timed morning session.