Ross's capture was facilitated by his career-long dealer Oscar Danilo Blandon, who "set up" Ross. Blandón had close ties with the Contras, and had met with Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez on several occasions. Blandón was the link between the CIA and Contras during the Iran-Contra affair. Gary Webb interviewed Ross several times before breaking the story in 1996. Ross claims that the reason he was unfairly tried initially was because of his involvement in the scandal. Blandón received a 24-month sentence for his drug trafficking charges, and following his release, was hired by the Drug Enforcement Administration where he was salaried at US$42,000. Blandón was not a U.S. citizen/national, and is the only known foreigner not to be deported following conviction on drug trafficking charges in U.S. history[citation needed]. The INS was ordered to grant Blandón a green card, despite the criminal convictions, to allow him to work for the DEA. The DEA has claimed they no longer employ Blandón, and his whereabouts are unknown.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross

Nancy had to sit him down and yell at Ronnie to get him to fess up and stop saying "I don't recall"...he also lied repeatedly about it and said it was not "arms for hostages" before Nancy sat him down and told him to stop being a liar.

He wasn't likely to get caught if Nancy hadn't ratted him out, since his administration destroyed a warehouse full of documents regarding the operation...something known as "obstruction of justice".

Character my ass...he sold weapons to our sworn enemy so that he could fund his private pet war in Nicaragua that Congress specifically forbade him from doing.

He's just as big a criminal as Ollie...he just had Ollie to fall on his sword for him, and then he got scratched right back with a pardon.

If that's your idea of "character" remind me to never do business with you

Fish on...

Todd

Reagan and character being used in the same sentence?




Shut up, Hank.

So if I bang your wife and kick your dog and say "sorry - but I banged your wife and kicked your dog" we're all cool?

Not in my book we aren't.

He did kick the country's dog, and bang the country's wife, and lie about it...repeatedly, over and over again.

Then he let Ollie twist in the wind by himself for it, when he should have been hanging there alongside him.

Fish on...

Todd

No, it's not better.

But in neither case is any character displayed - in both cases you're a dung beetle.

Apparently we do.

DanS does nothing on this site except SUCK the schlong of anyone Todd approves of. I pointed this out about 5 mos ago, now he says Ozero is chitbag. A pathetic little spineless midget that want's to belong/stay to the PP clique in the worse way.

Run along and kill yourself Sol Cu.nt.

i have to agree with Hank (i can only imaging whats going to come my way politically now)...

Reagan did have character, and charisma...

he still isnt one of the 3 presidents that i named that actually did things for their citizens, because he didnt, be did things against the citizens... and it failed miserably, and costs billions of dollars even doing it, while we/USA helped them....

every president since Kennedy has been bullsh!t, and it will never get better either... not because we as a nation couldnt do it, but because the entire fvcked up world we live in, wouldnt allow it...

He doesn't get to "have character" because he finally fessed up about something he lied about repeatedly.

"Character" would have included not selling weapons to our enemy...aka "committing treason"...the real kind of treason, not the pretend kind that RWWJ's like to talk about when Obama does anything.

Fish on...

Todd

Ronny cut the GI bill on funding education for veterans. Others may have tried but Ronny actually did it, scumbag!!!

Character my azz.



Fishy

he had character... good? not so much, but he still had it... people listened to him, and swore by him... kinda like you and my mom do with HObama, Todd... i understand its great and all we as a nation can accept having a black president.... but hes just as crooked as the last one, and the one before, and the one before, and the 6 before that...

the US government, including the POTUS, are not there for you, they are there for themselves, you are just something they have to deal with... like a buzzing gnat on a nice summer BBQ day, bugging the sh!t out of you... they dont like you, they dont care about you...

if they did, our country truely would be great, not like what it has become...

The Tea Party and Rand Paul and Jim DeMint are lobbying for tax "sheltering" in overseas accounts. Romney didn't help himself in the election either.

[url=http://www.salon.com/2012/07/27/tea_party_shields_tax_dodgers/][/url]

and Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act....

your point?

Same as any corporation that the GOP kneels down to.


Fishy

So the Dems were caught lying and it's the Republicans fault?

Under Ronny, a GI had to contribute and would only be paid a certain amount directly related to his financial contribution instead of the GI bill that sent all those Vietnam vets to school.
You should be old enough to remember that.

Fishy

Why not, Congress won't pay its own bills but its the Dem's fault!



Fishy

What exactly did the Dems 'get caught' lying about Jerry?

Natron - There's actually a big difference between having character and being a character.

Not that I'd expect you to know that...