This is interesting.

[globalvillage]

Posada lawyer may call Kerry, North

As Venezuela seeks to block U.S. citizenship for Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, his lawyer may look to Sen. John Kerry and Oliver North to testify about Posada's former ties to the U.S. government.
BY OSCAR CORRAL AND PABLO BACHELET
[email protected]

In an effort to free Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles from federal detention and help him qualify for U.S. citizenship, his attorney may call on U.S. Sen. John Kerry and Oliver North of Iran-contra fame to testify about Posada's ties to the U.S. government.

Posada's lawyer, Eduardo Soto, said Tuesday that he is considering subpoenaing Kerry and North because their testimony may assure U.S. immigration officials that Posada was working for the U.S. government during the contra war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in the mid-1980s.

Soto said Posada, who was once a legal U.S. resident, should receive U.S. citizenship because he served as an active-duty soldier for the U.S. Army in Vietnam, and later as a paid U.S. agent in Nicaragua.

''He was the lead prosecutor in Iran-contra,'' Soto said of Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged President Bush for the White House in 2004. ``He is a man who has personal knowledge of investigations, reports, testimony, everything that Iran-contra entails.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/14760173.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_local

[TayTay]

1. That would actually be kind of cool

Consdiering how much the Bush Admins (father and son) have tried to repress anything having to do with Iran-Contra and Noreiga and that whole mess. I would love to see Sen. Kerry testify again on what he knows. (He was called to the stand to testify when Morganthau took the BCCI case to trial in NYC.)

[globalvillage]

2. That's what I thought.

If he is called to testify, what light will this throw on Iran-Contra? So few people know about Sen Kerry's work, and it's possible this will get it back in the eyes of the mainstream.
If it does, I'll have to do some studying.


Oh, check out the pics at the link. If you can get past North, there's a nice photo of JK.

[blm]

3. You KNOW what I'm gonna say ------ Post on GD

IranContra figure may call on Kerry to spill beans for court case.

[globalvillage]

5. I'll use your title. n/t.

[globalvillage]

7. Done.

Thanks for the excellent title.

[BlueIris]

4. Interesting is right. Daaaamn.

I'd LOVE to see Kerry get more credit for this.

[Blaukraut]

6. oh my!

I wonder if this will hit mainstream news...

[blm]

9. Let's keep it up here at DU - I know some journos monitor this site.

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[ProSense]

8. Fantastic! n/t

[globalvillage]

10. Sigh.

Hundreds of posts about that nasty bitch Coulter, and yet...

[blm]

11. More people will jump on - maybe Octafish will see it.

That should brighten his night.

[ProSense]

12. Isn't the

troll count higher than usual today?

[ginnyinWI]

13. Super-cool!

Let's see them open up that can of worms again! Makes Kerry look good and Bushies look baaaad!