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This piece is reprinted with permission from The Nation Institute.
Talk about a red flag. It could all be true, and I, too, found Kerry's and McCain's behavior in those hearings weird. But I don't buy Schanburg's hypothesis for silence by so many otherwise principled men, such as Reagan. If it was all hushed up in a massive effort at butt-covering on behalf of previous administrations and the intelligence branches, well, butt-covering isn't particularly effective as a long-term strategy. It creates a juicy bit of news for someone to break, once he's out of government.
Why hasn't this issue turned up in more memoirs by former officials from various administrations?