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Like an untreated infection within the political system, the Iran-Contra affair continues to grow, spreading corruption not only into the future but, oddly, back into the past as well. The inconclusive results of the congressional hearings on the affair loom over the reaction, or lack of one, to recent allegations about a so-called October Surprise before the 1980 Presidential election.
This charge-that members of Ronald Reagan's campaign staff, in order to assure President Carter's defeat, promised arms shipments to certain Iranian officials if Iran would wait until after the election to release the American hostages being held in Teheran-has lingered ever since Reagan's, Inauguration. In midApril of this year, however, Gary Sickan adjunct professor of Middle Eastern politics at Columbia University, who had had responsibility for Iran as a member of the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and, briefly, Reagan-published a long Op-Ed article in the Times laying out a carefully argued case that such a deal was actually made.
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Perhaps the most disquieting legacy of Iran-Contra, in which extremely serious political crimes were exposed and then left largely unexorcised, is a kind of pervasive moral lassitude, in which charges that the integrity of the 1980 Presidential election was compromised with the help of the Iranian government evoke an almost bored reaction.
It now appears that the charges will be left to linger, unanswered and uninvestigated, because no one with any power sees it to be in his personal political interest to confront them. The dictum that we live in a nation of laws can also be understood ironically-that ours has become a nation only of laws. For laws without the will to enforce them and confront the consequences remain simply words on paper.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2018/08/16/who-is-bruce-ohr-why-does-trump-keep-tweeting-about-him/?utm_term=.e30d884f001c&__twitter_impression=true (Who is Bruce Ohr and why does Trump keep tweeting about him?)
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