Edward Boland person
also: Representative Edward Boland, Edward Bolin, Bolin, Boland
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“Instead, Congress passed the first Bolin Amendment, named after Massachusetts Democrat Edward Bolin, who authored it. He was a member of the House Intel Committee, and it was drafted by Bolin. Now, keep in mind, we're in a Republican admini…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 12:20
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▶ 12:20
Instead, Congress passed the first Bolin Amendment, named after Massachusetts Democrat Edward Bolin, who authored it. He was a member of the House Intel Committee, and it was drafted by Bolin. Now, keep in mind, we're in a Republican admini…
▶ 12:46
It left glaring big loopholes. And while on the surface it was said, yeah, you're not supposed to be doing that. There was literally huge, like garage door size loopholes in it. He knew full well that the CIA had been funding the Contras be…
▶ 13:12
But Harkin's move, making a public issue out of a secret CIA project, had put Boland on the hot seat, supposedly. Another one of those kabuki dances. Boland told Harkin's that Congress had no business passing laws like the one that he was p…
▶ 13:39
Yeah, like we know they're doing it. Shut up. Boland went on to say that there was an intelligence committee to keep the nation's secrets and exercise sensible and prudent oversight. What a joke. The intelligence committee, a body generally…
▶ 14:10
To keep Harkins quiet and other liberals, Boland agreed to an amendment to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds, quote, for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua. OK, so all they did was say they weren't trying to overthrow …
▶ 14:41
It was a fraud designed to make it look like Congress was doing something and didn't do anything. Internal government memos show that the CIA, White House, Defense Department, and the Contra congressional supporters knew that the Contras ha…
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used to doing this to their own citizens. So they were just continuing what they had done under Somoza. In a ploy to counter the negative human rights reports, John Negroponte decided to bring together the Contra leaders with American polit…