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Subject: Part 1, CHRISTIC INSTITUTE Combats Treasonous CIA Crime Chieftains
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Part 1, CHRISTIC INSTITUTE Combats Treasonous CIA Crime Chieftains
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This is UNDERCURRENTS, with Robert Knight in New York.
Months ago, while other publications were predicting that the former
ambassador to China would be President Bush's nominee to head the
Central Intelligence Agency, there is one analyst, who has been on
top of such affairs for years and years, who said very clearly,
"No. The nominee will be Robert Gates." That man was Danny Sheehan.
You heard that on this air. Danny Sheehan now joins us live from
Washington, D.C. where he is the lead attorney for the Christic
Institute, a name familiar to listeners of UNDERCURRENTS for its
work on the Iran-Contra Affair, on the Sanctuary Movement and on the
dirtier moves towards fascism in this country, and the clandestine
control of populations here and abroad.
Danny, this is the beginning of the week for the hearings on the
nomination of Robert Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence.
In today's New York Times, Senator Boren says he is not among those
who have made an "early negative judgement about Robert Gates" --
that there is no "smoking gun." What is your estimate
of this nomination?
DANIEL SHEEHAN:
Well, I think that the difficulty, Robert, in dealing with these
nominations is in having to try to relate objective reality to the
fictions and fantasies that the executive branch projects, in which
many members of Congress are perfectly willing to endorse, even
though they know that they are false.
That, of course, is what the entire realm of the Central
Intelligence Agency is all about. And so, the objective reality of
this is perfectly clear: that Robert Gates was intimately involved
in covering up and concealing and lying directly to the United
States Congress about the activities of the Central Intelligence
Agency in supporting the illegal weapons shipments to the Contras
and, of course, in selling weapons to the Iranian Hezbollah, and
also the diversion of the profits from the TOW missiles to the
Contras.
All of these are major issues that any logical body that was
analyzing Robert Gates would cause to reject him, but the fact of
the matter is that many of the same facts are obtained with regard
to Donald Gregg, the National Security Advisor for George Bush when
Bush was vice-president. And when the information that was
objectively put forth before the Senate showed that he was directly
involved in helping to supervise the criminal weapons shipments to
the Contras, and had lied regularly about it, they went ahead in the
Senate and confirmed him anyhow, saying such bizarre things as,
"Well, Don Gregg told as much of the truth as he could, under
the circumstances."
or that
"No evidence of an admissible nature will probably surface in any
criminal trial to show that he is guilty of criminal conduct.
And so, therefore, since the Vice-President has assured us that
he didn't do this, then we'll have to nominate him."
So that is the major problem. One could go on at some length, laying
forth the objective evidence showing that Robert Gates was
thoroughly involved in this, and that he knew about it and lied.
I happen to be in a personal position of knowing for an absolute
CERTAINTY that he knew, because I personally briefed Ken Ferguson,
who was the deputy to Bob Gates, on April 14th of 1986, in great
detail about the illegal weapons shipments, the involvement of
high-level Central Intelligence Agency officials about this. I named
Vincent Canistrero of the CIA as being intimately involved in all of
this. And Ken Ferguson went right to Bob Gates and briefed him in
detail. Bob Gates was then made the Deputy Director of the CIA on
April 17th of 1986, and he still maintains that he was never told
about any of this.
So I know that he was told, and I know that he was intimately
involved in it. I KNOW that he personally participated in
constructing the falsified and altered chronology that was presented
by [CIA Director] Bill Casey to the United States [Congressional]
Intelligence Committees shortly before the scandal was publicly
exposed. So all of these objective pieces of data would make it
perfectly clear that any legislative body with any integrity would
have to reject Robert Gates.
Now, when we're talking about a legislative body possessing
integrity, we're not necessarily talking about the present United
States Senate, as we can see, of course, from the fact that they're
getting ready to ratify the nomination of Clarence Thomas, despite
his transparent lack of abilities and competence to hold the post of
Supreme Court Justice.
So, what we have to realize is that the American PEOPLE need to rise
up and need to send massive amounts of telegrams to the United
States Senators who are on the Intelligence Committee and who are in
the general Senate, saying,
"Look, we know POSITIVELY that Robert Gates was involved in the
Contra operation. We know for certain, to a moral certainty, that
he was lying to the United States Congress. And for you to ratify
this man is a breach of your Constitutional oath of office."
(to be continued)
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If you value your human rights and your Constitutional rights
-- and if you are concerned about the liberties and rights of
your children and grandchildren-to-be, your conscience must
dictate that you oppose this fascist tide that is sweeping away
the edifice of our democracy, like an ocean wave would sweep
away a sand castle.
Tell the Christic Institute that you support their efforts to
defend our laws and the Constitution upon which they rest.
Tell it to:
William Davis
The Christic Institute
8773 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
1(310)287-1556
John DiNardo
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If we seriously listen to this "God within us" ["conscience",
if you will], we usually find ourselves being urged to take the
more difficult path, the path of more effort rather than less.
... Each and every one of us, more or less frequently, will hold
back from this work. .... Like every one of our ancestors before
us, we are all lazy. So original sin does exist; it is our laziness.
M. Scott Peck
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED
