Eugene Hasenfuss flew out of Mena, Arkansas.
If you don't understand Mena, you don't understand Iran-Contra and what really has been happening for the past 20 years.
Mena is where the Bush and Clinton families interests converged, so both covered up for what happened there and Iran-Contra.
In battling Communists and their leftist allies, the actions of the Reagan administration strongly suggest that it believed there were almost no legal restraints on what it could do. In 1986, the United States government began selling arms to Iran and using the profits to help the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Both actions were illegal. Ronald Reagan denied having authorized this program. This turned out to be the tip of a massive iceberg of illegal activity. The US had been selling arms to Iran and Iraq since the beginning of the Reagan administration.
Of far greater importance was the elaborate executive infrastructure, answerable to Vice President George H.W. Bush, to secretly supply the right-wing Contras. Congress cut legitimate aid to a trickle with the two Boland Amendments, making all other assistance of any sort, including the use of US personnel illegal. Another breach of the law occurred in the Reagan-Bush, Sr., years. The NSC and CIA violated the law by advising and provisioning the Contras in Nicaragua. They used US military personnel in some operations against Nicaragua, a violation of the Neutrality Act, which forbids use of force against nation with whom the US is at peace. Later, the violation of the law was compounded when Congress legislated against supplying the contra rebels in Nicaragua. Almost certainly, Bush was deeply involved in operational problems.
http://forwardamerica.blogspot.com/2008/03/underside-of-reagan-revolution.htmlFor all the talk of Mena as the result of a "vast Right Wing conspiracy", most serious writers on the subject recognize that it was a bi-partisan effort:
There is a standard line you hear when you try to talk to people in Washington, D.C. about the flood of narcotics operations and money laundering in Arkansas during the 1980s. “Oh, those allegations were entirely discredited,” they say. This is not so. Thanks to numerous journalists and members of the enforcement community, the documentation on Mena drug running and the related money laundering is quite serious and makes the case that the government was engaged or complicit in significant narcotics trafficking. This includes the various relationships to employees of the National Security Council, the Department of Justice and the CIA under Vice President Bush’s leadership and to then Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton and a state agency, the Arkansas Development and Finance Agency (ADFA). ADFA was a local distributor of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) subsidy and finance programs and an active issuer of municipal housing bonds. One of its law firms included Hillary Clinton and several members of Bill Clinton’s administration as partners, including Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster and Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell.
Those convicted and pardoned by President Bush included former Bechtel General Counsel, Harvard trained lawyer Cap Weinberger who as Secretary of Defense had presided over one of the most crime-ridden government contracting operations in U.S. history.<20> Forbes editor James Norman left Forbes in 1995 as a result of Forbes refusal to publish his story “Fostergate,” about the death of Vince Foster and its relationship to the sophisticated software, PROMIS, allegedly used to launder money, including funds for the arms and drugs transactions working through Arkansas. Norman’s story allegedly implicated Weinberger in taking kickbacks through a Swiss account from Seal’s smuggling operation.
http://www.dunwalke.com/4_Narco_Dollars.htmIf this was a Right Wing conspiracy, why would they implicate Bush, Weinburger, Ollie North and others? Whatever the conspiracy is labeled, it included the Clinton's.
One of the best insights into the Clinton's in Arkansas is
Partners In Power by Roger Morris, (NOT Dick Morris):
Roger Morris was a National Security Advisor to LBJ who resigned from the NSC to protest Nixon's invasion of Cambodia. He has spoken out publicly encouraging other government employees to resign in protest of Bush's policies. He hardly qualifies as a Right Winger.
As mentioned above, understanding Iran-Contra is needed to understand what has been happening in U.S. politics for the past 20 years. Jim Wright was the a forceful advocate for peace in Central America and as fine a Speaker as the party has had in the past 30 years. He was forced to resign over a silly scandal about book royalties.
Gary Hart was a strong critic of Reagan's Central America policy. An airport he was flying into in Managua was bombed just before he arrived on a visit:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954049-1,00.htmlThe Iran-Contra conspirators could expect to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law in a Hart presidency. So they had to change the rules about media coverage of a candidate's personal life to attempt to discredit him, while at the same time refusing to report the same stories about Bush:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_FitzgeraldWhen that didn't work, when over 60% of the American public thought that media coverage of Hart was unfair according to Gallup, they had to print another false rumor that his campaign was "secretly financed" just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses where Hart was leading the polls.
The real story, what remains untold by the MSM to this day, is who was it in the Democratic party was campaigning in the gutter to smear the Democratic front-runner?
Hart was expecting dirty tricks from Bush, but the dirty tricks came from the Clinton camp. (Roger Morris documents this in
Partners In Power, pgs. 433-434.)
The "former Hart advisor" who told Newsweek that Hart couldn't "keep his pants on" was James Carville.
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