Lawrence Walsh person
also: Special Prosecutor Lawrence Waltz, Walsh, Walsh's people, Lawrence Welch, Walch
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Claims (7)
Lawrence Walsh wrote
Firewall documented
“who once was described to CIA Intelligence Chief Charles Allen as great fun. Because, you know, that's a quality you want in your spies. Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-Contra special prosecutor, wrote in his book, Firewall, quote, Leiden was more…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 45:55
Walter Pincus framed
Lawrence Walsh book_quoted
“of what we're going to report. Pincus would later play an important role in helping to impede the Iran-Contra investigation, according to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. In his memoirs, Firewall, Walsh wrote that at a critical moment in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 47:07
Lawrence Walsh exposed
Oliver North documented
“There was no doubt that he was the driving force behind the process. Former Iranian Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who indicted and convicted North on a variety of felonies, suspects the Marine officer was a cutout for the CIA, a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 13 @ 34:24
Lawrence Walsh ordered_assassination_of
Joseph Fernandez documented
“who was later forced to resign from the CIA for his illegal involvement in the Contras. Fernandez was indicted by Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but the charges were dropped when the U.S. attorney, Richard Thunberg, refused to decla…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 17 @ 38:32
Lawrence Walsh covered_up
Contras host_asserted
“of their investigation. For the most part, the CIA reported any drug trafficking activity would have been stumbled upon in the course of the investigation over other issues like money laundering. So they knew that by sending it to Walsh tha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 6:17
Lawrence Walsh covered_up
Rudy Castillo host_asserted
“outside his purview. And he also stated that he knew Senator John Kerry's Senate subcommittee was investigating it. But it appears that Walsh's office never passed the Rudd memo to John Kerry. Castillo's investigation, that's the good DEA g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 15 @ 6:47
Lawrence Walsh exposed
George H.W. Bush documented
“His statements were flatly contradicted the week before November 1992 election when the Iran Contra, this is hilarious, special prosecutor released part of the former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's diary.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 35:08
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insisting that he had not been in the loop on the Iranian Arms for Hostage initiative or the covert support of the rebel forces in Nicaragua. His statements were flatly contradicted the week before November 1992 election when the Iran Contr…
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which revealed that Bush, in a critical meeting, voted to send Iran tow missiles in exchange for hostages. The potentially damaging evidence in those notes did not, however, prevent George Bush from issuing a full pardon on Christmas Eve of…
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was furious at the pardons and said that Bush, quote, had stopped the trial of a Confederate, unquote. But the fact was that the arms dealers, former military officers, and Middle Eastern hustlers like Oliver North, William Casey, Admiral P…
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Fiers Jr. was convinced that Hall's Ranch was being used for Contra drug flights. There is no doubt in Fiers' mind that Pastora's men trans-shipped drugs out of the airstrip on Hall's Ranch. Investigators for the Iran-Contra prosecutor, Law…
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Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, in his memoirs of the Iran-Contra scandal, wrote that Chamorro was picked because he had been acceptable to the Contra leader, Calero, and responsive to CIA. The agency's choice demonstrates how contrived…
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I've done some controversial stories before, but the editors have stood by them, and we'd won some significant awards. I felt good about the paper. One place you might try is the National Archives, Perry offered. They're in the process of d…
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and about North's illegal Contra support network in the U.S. and Central America. Much of the information that Ainsworth gave the FBI and later Lawrence Walsh, who, for those of you who don't know, was the quote-unquote special prosecutor, …
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This is a quote. I mean, here I am a citizen. I complained to the FBI and they tell me they have no interest in the case. Then I call Walsh's people and they sent a couple of FBI guys out to talk to me and they had no interest in it. I coul…
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There was no doubt that he was the driving force behind the process. Former Iranian Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, who indicted and convicted North on a variety of felonies, suspects the Marine officer was a cutout for the CIA, a…
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continued as the agency overseeing the U.S. undercover activities in support of the Contras after the Boland Amendments were enacted. Walsh wrote in his memoirs, the CIA's strategy determined what North would and would not do. So he's just …
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was the Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, upon whom every potential allegation of drug trafficking by the Contras was dumped by the CIA and the Reagan administration. Of course, Walsh had neither the time nor the authority to investiga…
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Like the CIA before him, North had selected that base as his hub of Contra Air Force. His operatives worked there practically unfettered. And that came from a report written by Lawrence Walsh, the prosecutor. It was at the El Salvador Air B…
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The memo of Rudd's debriefing was sent to the Iran-Contra prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, by the DOJ a month later with a note from Associate Attorney General Stevens Trott, T-R-O-T-T, which said there was no action being taken by the DOJ pendi…
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And it was later found in the National Archives when researchers discovered it. Yeah, the DOJ is not going to do anything about drug trafficking into the United States. One of the lawyers who worked for Walsh told the CIA in 1997 that inves…
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of their investigation. For the most part, the CIA reported any drug trafficking activity would have been stumbled upon in the course of the investigation over other issues like money laundering. So they knew that by sending it to Walsh tha…
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that everything's being dumped on the special prosecutor and he's not doing anything with it. That's basically what we just covered. This is the kabuki dance that I keep talking about every single day. They have a special prosecutor and the…
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They did what they thought was appropriate. Meanwhile, John Kerry is investigating all of this stuff in another Kabuki committee hearing. And the DOJ is sending everything to Walsh, but he's not sending it to John Kerry. So it's a big botto…
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who was later forced to resign from the CIA for his illegal involvement in the Contras. Fernandez was indicted by Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, but the charges were dropped when the U.S. attorney, Richard Thunberg, refused to decla…
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In an interview with Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Welch's office, Walch, sorry, Pino confirmed that he and Bode met with North to discuss the purchase of the speedboats. During that meeting, Pino said, North unexpectedly announced that h…
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And I just don't know the status. Well, the reason he didn't know is because the case had been turned over to Lawrence Walsh. The Iran-Contra Committee didn't pursue Weakley at all. Knowlton, the attorney, said, unfortunately, neither did W…
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They were undertaken. Weekly was under federal investigation in connection with Daniel Blanton's cocaine ring, something that had been known at the highest levels of the CIA Justice Department and DIA. On December 21st, 1986, just two days …
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of what we're going to report. Pincus would later play an important role in helping to impede the Iran-Contra investigation, according to independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. In his memoirs, Firewall, Walsh wrote that at a critical moment in…
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and reduced Nancy Reagan to tears. Of all the sideswipes that we suffered during that period, the false report that we were considering indicting the nation's still-admired former president hurt us the most, Walsh wrote. It infuriated the c…
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senior, which of course would be CIA. Gray, Walsh wrote, had been known to float stories through persons close to the publishers at the Washington Post. Pincus had sometimes been asked to write these stories. I suspected Gray or someone els…
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who once was described to CIA Intelligence Chief Charles Allen as great fun. Because, you know, that's a quality you want in your spies. Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-Contra special prosecutor, wrote in his book, Firewall, quote, Leiden was more…
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The scandal would dominate the news for the remainder of the Reagan-Bush administration. During the independent counsel's probe, 14 people were charged criminally. Clines and Secord were charged with operational crimes that dealt with illeg…
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Lawrence Walsh never used violations of the Arms Export Control Act or the Boland Amendment to charge them. And they were hands down guilty of both of them because they were not criminal statutes. And basically they felt wouldn't be the bes…
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of those types of things, because they were guilty of them, would actually add teeth to them. In the end, everyone Walsh charged was convicted, with the exception of a single CIA officer whose case was dismissed on national security grounds…