How "Iran" and "Contra" came to be said in the same breath ... Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh investigated the affair for the next eight years. Fourteen people were charged with either ...

March 5 is a date that has witnessed significant events throughout history, spanning various categories such as politics, ...

Special counsel Jack Smith told the Supreme Court it must not delay Donald Trump's criminal trial even if it thinks ...

Abrams was pardoned over his role in the infamous Iran-Contra affair, but many haven't forgotten Given Abrams' convoluted, controversial background in Latin America and world affairs more ...

Arguably the messiest, most explosive political scandal of the 1980s, the Iran-Contra affair was such a PR blunder for the U.S. government that Reagan was forced to take full responsibility for it ...

Both characterisations, wrote Mr Will, are too kind. The Iran-Contra affair was not, he wrote, an aberration – it was a policy of the same pattern as the Daniloff debacle, and the Iceland summit ...

as well as at least one bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut.The policy humiliations of the Iran-Contra affair stemmed directly from the attempts of senior U.S. officials to gain the release of U ...

Consider the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s, when senior US officials conspired to sell weapons to Iran – then under an arms embargo – and channel the proceeds to rebels trying to oust ...

1987 – The Tower Commission rebuked U.S. President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff in the wake of ...