Lt. Colonel Oliver North was in the media tent just outside the convention center. He now has a talk show on MSNBC. Oliver North, of course, was the point man on the Iran-Contra scandal—the Reagan Administration’s circumvention of the congressional ban on funding for the Contras by secretly selling arms to Iran, then funneling the profits to the Contras.
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Daily News Digest
In a Senate hearing today, Pentagon officials claimed President Obama and future presidents have the power to send troops anywhere in the world to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda, based in part on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed by Congress days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. [includes rush transcript]
