Iran–Contra affair

Yeah

... of, of very similar to Iran-Contra, and there's actually, no one's talking about it much, but, like, there's a real concern over, like, there's basically no legal authority, and Treasury is holding these funds, but seems to only be spending them on, like, what the White House wants.

Um-

Yeah, that's just another day in the White House right now, though.

And it's because the intelligence agencies in the deep state became the scaffolding or the nucleus of the American project.

Whereas before they operated in the shadows, you know, and they would be found out and that stuff would hit the media like the Iran-Contra scandal in the 80s, right? Like, you know, but now we're in this place where we have a new Iran-Contra every single day.

You know, like I was watching, I didn't watch much of it, so I can't really comment on it too much.

But Mike Benz did this whole live stream the other day about the disappearance of rap music now that USAID is gone.

This is Vice President Cheney.

He had memories of having been involved in a congressional investigation of the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan administration.

He thought that that had featured partisan showboating So they were divided and ambivalent and reluctant.

I will say that the late Senator John McCain joined with Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman and others to champion the idea of this commission, which McCain thought was good government.

Cain had actually been a PhD student in history at Princeton very early in his career and had a keen appreciation for history and a certain sort of historian sensibility.

And on the Democratic side, the Democrats picked a more conventional choice, who was Lee Hamilton.

who had actually helped lead that Iran-Contra investigation and was probably the most respected Democratic member of Congress in the House of Representatives on issues of foreign affairs.

From Indiana, A person who chose his words carefully, had a good touch, was regarded as down-to-earth and businesslike, who could cross party lines but stood up for his side, widely respected.

Every intelligence operation that needs commercial cover uses a stack.

The CIA's 12-front companies, Mossad's pager supply chain, the Iran-Contra Enterprise's 21 Swiss accounts.

The stack is the universal tool.

It's the Swiss army knife of covert

documents are the story.

The Shumkani Network's shared phone number.

The Iran-Contra enterprise's defects name mimicry.

The pager chain's licensing agreements.

In total, the gold ended up being held in over 170 banks in 42 countries.

The fingerprints of the Black Eagle Trust can be found on countless covert operations from the Bay of Pigs to Iran-Contra and every assassination in between, but the granddaddy of them all was the takedown of the USSR, known as Project Hammer.

According to eight sources cited by Heidner, on September 11, 1991, President George H.W. Bush used the trust to secretly issue $240 billion in bonds.

which funded an economic blitzkrieg to end the Cold War.

Two huge covert operations in the 1980s predicated 9-11.

Operation Eagle Claw, better known as Iran-Contra, and Operation Cyclone.

Two foreign intelligence agencies were instrumental in working with the U.S. to facilitate these operations, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Operation Cyclone was the birth of Al-Qaeda, then called the Freedom Fighters.

The U.S. embarked on a path of fostering, financing, and arming Islamic

fundamentalists to fight the Soviets in a proxy war in Afghanistan.

In Iran-Contra, the U.S. used proceeds of both contraband sold to Iran by Israel, as well as the illegal narcotics trade to finance the off-the-books operation in Nicaragua, where tens of thousands of people were killed.

This set up a scenario very similar to what was repeated in Syria later under Timber Sycamore.

at the beginning of 1983, totally secret.

I mean, if it had got out that the Reagan administration had a back channel that it was exercising to the Iranian regime, remember the Iran-Contra scandal when it emerged that there were secret kind of communications going on.

This was the Iran-Contra scandal before the Iran-Contra scandal, only it never came out.

So they had this top secret meeting in Pakistan arranged through the Pakistani intelligence service.

Redwood flew out with trunks filled with documents.

You can say the Clinton impeachment.

You can say Iran-Contra.

You can always kind of go backwards and it always starts with Woodrow Wilson.

But... 9-11 and the wars that follow rotted the soul of this country.