Posted on 05/16/2015 1:36:48 PM PDT by doug from upland
I have to wonder if what the clinton foundation is laundering proceeds from the Mena days.
Sadly you could prove all this beyond a doubt and Hillary would still get half the vote. Bill would win if he ran again.
That was probably spent or put in a Swiss account with the Marc Rich bribe money - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAkaPaPRygo
Oh, wow... DougfromUpland, Mena and the good old days... heck, the next thing you know, they’re gonna bring back The X-Files. Oh. Wait.
Clinton Lied and a whole lots of people died.
tell me its not true that the mena coke $$$ was not laundered thru the arkansas redevelopment bank funding tyson and walmart...
Let’s bring this back.
And the director is the son of Arthur Liman, the (Democrat) chief counsel for the Senate Iran-Contra hearings, so the filmmakers were definitely out to make the Republicans look bad, even working George W. Bush into the story in a throwaway scene.
That said, their idea was that it was mostly just Barry Seal himself who was dealing the drugs. Clinton might have known, but he wasn't a drug kingpin by any means.
The movie makes it look like Clinton intervened to stop Seal's prosecution because the fed wanted it stopped. That may or may not be true, but it doesn't look like Clinton was running the operation or skimming off the profits.
In the movie, Seal is shipping guns to the Contras for the CIA and running drugs out of Colombia on his own as part of his operation. Most of the guns end up in Colombia, rather than Nicaragua.
After Barry gets busted the CIA gets the charges against him dropped. In exchange Seal has to do a drug deal with the Nicaraguan government that will be photographed and used as evidence against the Sandinistas. In the film, it looks like the Colombians had Seal killed.
This isn't history; it's Hollywood, but it's a plausible story. It's possible that some of the wilder charges that have been made elsewhere -- Clintons as drug kingpins, the Bushes as drug kingpins, the Contras running drugs, the CIA killing Seal -- are exaggerated.
There's no reason why the movie should be believed as the truth, but it is less feverish than much of what you can find online.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.