{"id":11453,"date":"2019-03-26T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=11453"},"modified":"2019-03-26T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T19:19:14","slug":"william-barr-declares-mueller-investigation-fully-exonerates-members-of-reagan-administration-from-iran-contra-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/william-barr-declares-mueller-investigation-fully-exonerates-members-of-reagan-administration-from-iran-contra-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"William Barr Declares Mueller Investigation Fully Exonerates Members Of Reagan Administration From Iran-Contra Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--a8PM0OA4--\/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800\/f4pqircf7qzbcccaxgwr.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>March 25, 2019 (theonion.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Following the completion of the special counsel\u2019s 22-month probe, Attorney General William P. Barr declared Monday that Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation fully exonerates all members of Ronald Reagan\u2019s presidential administration from involvement in the Iran\u2013Contra affair. \u201cI\u2019ve reviewed Mr. Mueller\u2019s findings and have determined conclusively that neither the late president nor any White House or Cabinet official serving between 1981 and 1989 ever ordered, oversaw, or even knew about the covert sales of American arms to Iran,\u201d Barr said in a letter to the House and Senate judiciary committees, clearing key figures such as retired National Security Adviser John Poindexter and former staffer Oliver North in a move that finally lifts what many have seen as a dark cloud over the scandal-plagued presidency. \u201cI assessed this report carefully and can at long last say with full certainty that Caspar Weinberger, Robert McFarlane, Elliott Abrams, and all others in the president\u2019s inner circle operated lawfully from the time of the initial dealings in 1981 until the illegal arrangement was exposed five years later. From the 1985 diversion of funds to Contra rebels in Nicaragua, to Reagan\u2019s untruthful 1986 denial of an arms-for-hostage trade, to the flagrant destruction of countless documents relevant to the investigation, everyone acted properly and with the best interests of the United States in mind. It is my hope that the country can now move forward and put this unfortunate episode behind it.\u201d At press time, sources reported that Democratic leaders in Congress were still discussing a possible push for President Reagan\u2019s impeachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 25, 2019 (theonion.com) WASHINGTON\u2014Following the completion of the special counsel\u2019s 22-month probe, Attorney General William P. Barr declared Monday that Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation fully exonerates all members of Ronald Reagan\u2019s presidential administration from involvement in the Iran\u2013Contra affair. \u201cI\u2019ve reviewed Mr. Mueller\u2019s findings and have determined conclusively that neither&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/william-barr-declares-mueller-investigation-fully-exonerates-members-of-reagan-administration-from-iran-contra-involvement\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11456,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions\/11456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}