Sen Cranston: Am I correct in this, that you have confirmed ... that senior U.S. military,
diplomatic ... and intelligence personnel, really looked with great doubt upon Rodriguez's mission
and that they tolerated it only because Rodriguez used his contacts with the Vice President and his
staff as part of the way to bolster his mission.^Gregg: ... I was not aware of the diplomatic; I was aware of the military and intelligence, yes, sir.The committee voted in favor of confirmation. Cranston voted no. But three Democrats--
Charles Robb, Terry Sanford and Chairman Claiborne Pell--joined the Republicans.
Sanford confirmed Cranston's viewpoint, saying that he was allowing the nomination to
go through because he was afraid the path would lead to Bush, '' the new President. Sanford said, shamefacedly, If Gregg was lying, he was lying to protect the
President, which is different from lying to protect himself. ''[Emphasis
added]@s8@s9
In George Bush's government, the one-party state, the knives soon came out, and the
prizes appeared. The Senate Ethics Committee, including the shamefaced Terry Sanford,
began in November 1989, its attack on the `` Keating Five. '' These were U.S. Senators,
among them Senator Alan Cranston, charged with savings and loan corruption. The
attack soon narrowed down to one target only--the Iran-Contrary Senator Cranston. On
Aug. 2, 1991, Senator Terry Sanford, having forgotten his shame, took over as the new
chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.
Bush, LaRouche and Iran- Contra
George Bush and his friends have repeatedly told political pundits that America is tired '' and bored '' of hearing about the Iran-Contra affair. Bush has taken a dim view of
those who were not tired or bored, but fought him.
Oct. 6, 1986 was a fateful day in Washington. The secret government apparatus learned
that the Hasenfus plane had been shot down the day before, and went scurrying about to
protect its exposed parts. At the same time, it sent about 400 heavily armed FBI agents,
other federal, state and local policemen storming into the Leesburg, Virginia, publishing
offices associated with the American dissident political leader Lyndon LaRouche, Jr.
LaRouche and his political movement had certified their danger to the Bush program. Six
months before the raid, LaRouche associates Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart had gained
the Democratic nominations for Illinois lieutenant governor and secretary of state; they
won the primary elections after denouncing the government-mafia joint coordination of
the narcotics trade. With this notoriety, LaRouche was certain to act in an even more
unpredictable and dangerous fashion as a presidential candidate in 1988. LaRouche allies
were at work throughout Latin America, promoting resistance to the Anglo-Americans.
The LaRouche-founded Executive Intelligence Review had exposed U.S. government
covert support for Khomeini's Iranians, beginning in 1980. More directly, the
LaRouchites were fighting the Bush apparatus for its money.
Connecticut widow Barbara Newington, who had given Spitz Channell's National
Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty $1,735,578 out of its total 1985 income of