Nancy Hamilton Dead: Wife Of Former Congressman Lee Hamilton Dies After Car Accident

It's always sad when some dies unexpectedly, but from reading some of the comments, it seems that most readers are either staunch hawk Republicans or ill-informed about Lee Hamilton.  

Lee Hamilton, Republicans Favorite Investigator

Key October Surprise Evidence Hidden

Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Hyde

Bohemian Grove & Reagan's 'Treason'  

IranContraTaskForce chief counsel LarryBarcella said that so much incriminating evidence was pouring in to the task force at the end of 1992 that he recommended to Hamilton that the investigation be extended a few months so the new material could be evaluated.

Hamilton refused and instead ordered the report to be issued exonerating the Bush-Casey crowd. Barcella said Hamilton cited the complexity of getting the task force re-authorized heading into a new Congress.

But shouldn't evidence of such a serious political crime and of such an important historical event take precedence over clerical matters like getting an extension approved?

Two, on Jan. 11, 1993, just two days before the House task force issued its debunking report, Hamilton received a classified report from the Russian Duma's national security committee revealing what Moscow's intelligence files showed about the US OctoberSurprise controversy.

The Russian report confirmed that Casey, Bush and CIA officer RobertGates had attended meetings in Europe with senior Iranian officials regarding the Iran hostage crisis in 1980.

However, the House task force did nothing with this remarkable report, besides stick it in a box with other papers from the investigation.

Two days later, on Jan. 13, 1993, Hamilton presided over a press conference dismissing the OctoberSurprise allegations, but he made no reference then or at any time since to the Russian report, later recovered from the files.

Barcella said that the task force didn't want to be bothered with trying to get it declassified. So they stuck it in the box. (He envisioned it ending up in a giant government warehouse, like in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”)

But why didn't Hamilton (who took over as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in 1993) arrange for the Russian report to be declassified and shared with the American people?

Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, Bill Casey, Robert Gates, committed treason. 

Had Hamilton done his job, there never would have been a BushCheney administration.  There never would have been an IraqWar.  There may also never have been a 9/11, that "changed everything".  But then again, Hamilton wouldn't have had the opportunity to cover up again for the Bushes, as chairman of the 9/11 Commission.

A patriot, Lee Hamilton is not.
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