Reply #15: It's déjà vu all over again.

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from wiki:

Persons involved pardoned and reinstated

In 1992 U.S. President George H. W. Bush pardoned six people involved in the scandal,<47> namely Elliott Abrams, Duane R. Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George, Robert C. McFarlane, and Caspar W. Weinberger.

George W. Bush selected some individuals that served under Reagan for high-level posts in his presidential administration.<48><49> They include:

Elliott Abrams:<50> under Bush, the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs; in Iran Contra, pleaded guilty on two counts of unlawfully withholding information, pardoned.

Otto Reich:<51> head of the Office of Public Diplomacy under Reagan.

John Negroponte:<52> under Bush, the National Intelligence Director.

Admiral John Poindexter:<53> under Bush, Director of the Information Awareness Office; in Iran Contra found guilty of multiple felony counts for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and the alteration and destruction of evidence, convictions reversed.

Charles E. Allen:<54> under Bush, appointed in August 2005 to be chief intelligence officer at the Department of Homeland Security. Allen's position at DHS was not subject to Senate confirmation. Prior to the DHS appointment, Allen had worked 47 years at the CIA. Director of Central Intelligence William Webster formally reprimanded Allen for failing to fully comply with the DCI's request for full cooperation in the agency's internal Iran-Contra scandal investigation. However coworkers of Allen pointed out that Webster reprimanded the one person in the CIA who had brought his suspicions of a funds diversion to Robert Gates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair#Persons_involved_pardoned_and_reinstated

Need I add that Gates is now the current Secretary of Defense?