Longtime SE Texas US Rep. Jack Brooks dead at 89 (Dem, rode JFK's last motorcade)

[JackRiddler]

8. RIP Jack Brooks:

He was one of the few to probe for truth during the Reagan-Bush era Iran-Contra hearings, which served to cover up a vast complex of criminal dealings in arms, drugs and money to pay for the CIA's right-wing armies and death squads. To him we owe the limited exposure of Oliver North's involvement in the Rex-84 interagency martial law plans and exercises, held in 1984. These rehearsed the round-up of 400,000 political opponents and undocumented Central American aliens in the contingency of a US invasion of Nicaragua. The exposure and uprooting of the deep state networks who would even contemplate such operations remains as a future necessity.

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