Neocon Iran-Contra Elliot Abrams for Key Deputy Secretary of State Position?
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By Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Elliot Abrams
Trump is considering him for the department’s number two position – perhaps an especially powerful one while Rex Tillerson transitions from Big Oil to diplomacy.
Trump transition advisor James Carafano believes Abrams is “pretty close to being named” - best known for his role in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair.
It involved covertly selling arms to Iran to fund Contra anti-Sandinista terrorists in Nicaragua. The Boland Amendment prohibited it.
For his role in the scheme, Abrams was indicted for lying to Congress, pled guilty to two lesser offenses of withholding information from Congress to avoid a trial, possible conviction and imprisonment.
On Christmas night 1992, GHW Bush pardoned him and other Iran-Contra defendants –...