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In reply to the discussion: This will be very disappointing, if the Trumps are allowed to get away with their crimes [View all]PufPuf23
(8,769 posts)to fund the Contras in Nicaragua which was specifically not permitted by the Boland Amendment.
GWB lied the nation into a war of aggression against Iraq and is a War Criminal.
GHWB must have done something.
I was a student at Cal when Reagan was California Governor and was a federal employee when Reagan was POTUS. Cal and the specific agency I worked for were special targets of Reagan. I resigned after 16 years as a Fed employee (was a career Fed before starting at Cal and worked in a federal research lab in Berkely while attending Cal), not criminal but to show I was there.
I am not certain of the specific mechanisms to legally root the rot out of system, just that it needs to be done and what we face today is because of the past failures to specifically choose not to prosecute serious crimes.