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To: Txsleuth

It say a "former CIA official says that Ollie North"......Why would you believe ANY CIA officer???? Ollie is a great guy.


59 posted on 08/30/2006 4:51:43 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: Suzy Quzy

Okay...you have a good point. LOL

BTW..I want to thank you for keeping me up to date on these links and threads..

I just heard Hugh Hewitt say something odd...he was interviewing Christopher Hitchens about a lot of stuff...and when asking him about the Armitage as leaker story....Hugh said he isn't really interested in the story at all...

Maybe Hugh should...he is missing a LOT of stuff going on under the radar this last bunch of years..


87 posted on 08/30/2006 5:26:11 PM PDT by Txsleuth (,((((((((ISRAEL))))))))) Steve and Olaf have been released...pray for the release of the Israelis..)
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To: Suzy Quzy
Ollie is a great guy.

Agreed, as long as you don't EVER AGAIN put him in charge of an intelligence op. Sorry. You may like Ollie. I do too. But he was a class "A" F-up re Iran Contra. He didn't just screw the pooch; he wined it, dined it, and took it on a three day weekend to Vegas. The security of the whole thing was laughably poor. It's a miracle the Soviets failed to detect the operation long before the press did. Even the purely Contra side of the operation, were Ollie generally tends to get the most credit, was a mess. It took Elliot Abrams months to straighten it out and get the Contras to where they were a sizable, popular and effective force. And of course Ollie shat on the principle of civilian control by leaving Abrams out of the loop, and making him take the heat before Congress.

Hmmm. Maybe I don't like Ollie too much. Or I should say I don't trust him for playing against his own team like he did wrt to Abrams. And although I didn't have a problem with Ollie misleading Congress (a choice he didn't give Abrams) I DID most definitely have a problem with his removing documents from a secure location, then ALTERING and returning them. That's literally Orwellian, and I continue to think Ollie should have served time for that, or at least been indicted and tried with maybe something less than jail time.

Just MHO. Olliebots flame away.

116 posted on 08/30/2006 6:26:03 PM PDT by Stultis
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