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Click on the
names to read about each man's role in the Iran-Contra scandal |
Robert
McFarlane
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In the months
before the September 11 attacks, McFarlane was working behind the scenes
in Afghanistan as a private citizen through a private businessman,
trying to bring a man named Abdul Haq to power to overthrow the Taliban.
After the war in Afghanistan started, though, Abdul Haq was ambushed and
executed.
See: The
Tragedy of Haq by Robert McFarlane (Wall St. Journal) |
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"Bud" McFarlane
is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Global Energy Investors,
director for the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy, and
co-founder and vice-chair of the America-China Society. He
also serves on the boards of the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy and the White House Fellows’ Foundation. He is also
actively engaged in the National Prayer Breakfast movement. |
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Otto
Reich
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During the 1990's, Reich was a high-power lobbyist, both for
corporations and for an imprisoned Cuban terrorist named Orlando
Bosch. Reich successfully lobbied the first President Bush for a
visa and a pardon for Bosch, who is now a free man living in
Florida. During
a Congressional recess, George W. Bush appointed Otto Reich,
Iran-Contra's propaganda man, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
Western |
| Hemisphere Affairs. Otto quickly went to work, helping
orchestrate a failed overthrow of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
His term recently expired and he was immediately appointed Latin
American envoy, but is expected be re-nominated to the Asst. Secretary
of State post, and likely to be confirmed by the Senate unless citizens contact
their lawmakers and speak out against it. |
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John
Poindexter
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After his Iran-Contra
convictions were overturned on a technicality, John Poindexter
co-founded a software company and eventually went on to become Senior
Vice President at Syntek Technologies, helping to develop the Genoa
surveillance system that will be used by the Pentagon's Information
Awareness Office, of which he is currently the director. Also
see: Meet
our Big Brother |
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Caspar Weinberger
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After being pardoned for his
Iran Contra convictions by the former President Bush, Weinberger
went on to become Chairman of corporate mouthpiece
Forbes,
Inc |
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George Bush, Sr.
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Though he claimed he was
"out of the loop" and had no knowledge of the secret arms
deals, the Independent Counsel investigating Iran-Contra reported
otherwise. He went on to be elected US President, but
after losing his bid for re-election he became Senior Advisor to The
Carlyle Group, the nation's 10th largest defense contractor.
With a $3 trillion dollar defense budget and a $200 billion dollar war
on Iraq in the works, Bush stands to rake in profits from the War on
Terror for the rest of his life. |
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Elliot
Abrams
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After being pardoned by
George Bush, Sr., Abrams went on to become the President of the Ethics
and Public Policy Center in Washington, and also Chairman of the United
States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Today he's Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and
International Operations at the National Security Council |
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Ed Meese
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After resigning while under
investigation, Meese went on to become the Ronald Reagan Distinguished
Fellow in Public Policy, The
Heritage Foundation, another "think tank" whose mission is
"to formulate and promote conservative public policies". |
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Oliver
North
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A technicality overturned
Oliver North's convictions of destroying evidence, accepting bribes, and
obstructing an investigation. Oliver then went on become chief
executive officer of Guardian Technologies International, a
Virginia-based manufacturer of protective equipment for law enforcement
but is best known as a corporate media talking head. |
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