The big picture? Mueller is simply re-enacting the 1992 Globalist strategy that elected Bill Clinton. Remember the Presidential Election in 1992, where Bill Clinton won with only 43% of the vote because of "independent" Ross Perot (who took 18% of the vote from the Rs) while the Special Counsel conned the public by going after Reagan, Bush and Weinberger for the Iran/Contra affair? Sound familiar? The left indicted Weinberger and others right before the election and then a Judge threw out the convictions after Bush lost. We've seen this play before. Bill Clinton would never have won without Ross Perot and the Special Counsel. We are being set up all over again.
Caspar Weinberger was President Ronald Reagan's choice to be the fifteenth Secretary of Defense. He shared Reagan's conviction that the Soviet Union posed a serious threat and that the defense establishment needed to be modernized and strengthened. During the 1980s, the Reagan administration became involved in activities that led to the disclosure, late in 1986, of the Iran/Contra affair. During this decade, the administration supported the Contras in Nicaragua in their efforts to unseat the socialist Sandinistas, who in 1979 had driven out a long-standing dictatorship that the United States had supported.
The leftist Sandinistas accepted aid and advisers from Cuba and the Soviet Union, contributing to Reagan's determination to give military assistance to the Contras. Reagan held to his policy even after 1984, when Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega became President of Nicaragua in a fair election. In the same year, Congress officially cut off U.S. military aid to the Contras.
In 1985, persuaded by NSC officials including Robert McFarlane and Lt. Col. Oliver North, Reagan secretly agreed to send antitank missiles and other military equipment to Iran in the hope of securing the release of the U.S. hostages held there. When these activities became public knowledge in November 1986, together with the disclosure that money obtained from the arms sales to Iran had been sent to the Contras in Nicaragua, the Iran/Contra affair exploded.
Weinberger and his counterpart, Secretary of State Shultz, had opposed providing military equipment to Iran. Weinberger, according to his own account, did not know that proceeds from the Iranian arms sales were going to the Contras. He played an unwilling role in the arms transfer to Iran by agreeing to a sale by DoD to the CIA of 4,000 TOW missiles, which the CIA transferred to Iran through Israel. Weinberger later stated that at the time he had warned the administration that the direct transfer of arms from DoD to Iran would be a violation of the Arms Control Export Act. Some years after, in spite of the extenuating circumstances, Weinberger was indicted on the recommendation of a Special Counsel for the Iran/Contra affair, some six years later, DURING the lead up to the 1992 Presidential election. Timing is everything.
Fourteen other Reagan/Bush administration officials were indicted, including Caspar Weinberger who resigned before trial. Following his resignation as Secretary of Defense, legal proceedings against him were brought by Independent Special Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh. A federal grand jury then indicted Weinberger on two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice on June 16, 1992. Prosecutors brought an additional indictment FOUR days before the 1992 presidential election. This was controversial because it cited a Weinberger diary entry contradicting a claim made by President George H. W. Bush.
Republicans claimed that the witch-hunt contributed to President Bush’s defeat. Clinton won with 43% of the vote, Bush 37%, and Perot 19%. On December 11, 1992, Judge Thomas F. Hogan threw out the indictment because it violated the five-year statute of limitations and improperly broadened the original charges. Weinberger received a pardon from President Bush before he left office, who was Reagan's Vice President during the scandal, on December 24, 1992.
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