DANA Rohrabacher: Bush and Posada have a buddy in the Congress hearings

[L. Coyote]

Bush and Posada have a buddy in the Congress hearings
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD —Granma International staff writer— http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/noviembre/vier30/48dana-i.html


DANA Rohrabacher, the Republican congressman who denigrated witnesses who documented Luis Posada Carriles’ participation in acts of terrorism, during the Congressional hearing on his crimes, is a personal friend and fanatic follower of Oliver North, Posaba’s ex-boss’ when he was trafficking arms for drugs in the Salvadoran airbase of Ilopango, under instructions from the CIA.

Rohrabacher described the former Chilean foreign minister, assassinated in the heart of Washington on Pinochet’s orders, as a "Castro agent." He later added that during the cold war the rules were different: assassinating agents of enemy countries was justifiable, thus preparing a way out for Posada Carriles.

In his attempt to weaken testimonies that might incriminate the international terrorist, the distinguished representative of the Republican Party, a personal friend of Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, failed to mention his links with North and the CIA connection that provoked the ill-named Iran-Contra scandal.

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Like Mario Díaz-Balart, he continues to defend Jack Abramoff and his misdeeds. In 2000, that scandalously corrupt character used him as a bank reference for buying the Miami SunCruz Casinos.

Rohrabacher is in himself a collection of the barbarities of the U.S. ultra-right, a man who is in the habit of recalling, not only in tone but appearance, another of his heroes and predecessors, Senator Joe McCarthy. .............