Roar Mikalsen - HUMAN RISING - radiofri..

that nobody wants revealed. And these people are considered unreliable, so they are
simply done away with.
As we mentioned, more than 400 people out of the 5000 involved [in Iran-Contra]
would be in that category.” 478
Rodney Stich som vi møtte tidligere, var ikke selv involvert i Iran-Contra.
Men også han har vært utsatt for justisdepartementets falske anklager, og blitt
urettmessig straffeforfulgt på grunn av hva han visste. Han har også vært i
kontakt med en rekke andre eks-agenter som har opplevd det samme, og
forteller dette om hvordan de opplevde prosessen:
“Whatever the reason, CIA and Justice Department officials acted in unison with
federal judges, eliminating people who constituted a threat of exposure. The standard
tactic is to charge the targeted individual with a federal offense for some act they were
ordered to perform by their CIA handlers, deny them adequate legal counsel, deny
them the right to have CIA witnesses testify on their behalf, and deny them the right to
present CIA documents. A standard and sham excuse for denying these defenses is
that they are not relevant to the immediate charge, when the matter of who gave the
person his or her orders is absolutely relevant.
From 200 to 300 former CIA operatives or contract agents had been sentenced to
prison by Justice Department prosecutors during the 1980s on charges arising out of
covert activities they were ordered to perform by their CIA bosses.” 479
Det var i det store og hele systemtro dommere som tok slike saker. Al
Martin viser oss i boken sin The Conspirators, hvordan det for eksempel
foregikk ved statsadvokatens kontor (US Attorney’s office) i Miami:
”All politically sensitive, Iran-Contra politically sensitive cases, would be heard by one
of two judges — either the chief federal district judge, Lawrence King, now retired, or
the cases would be held by the newly ensconced Republican judge Fred Merano. In
some cases, when there was an overload, the cases would be bumped up to the
retired judge, Claude Atkins, a solid Republican. The defendants were convicted in
every single Iran-Contra sensitive case heard by these three federal district judges.” 480
Disse rettssakene var med andre ord, akkurat som kongressens og
senatets Iran-Contra høringer, politisk manipulert og satt opp til å feile, slik at
virkelighetsbildet kunne fordreies i statsmaktens favør.
For på samme måte som tiltalte i disse rettsakene aldri hadde noen
mulighet til å nå frem med sannheten, hadde heller ikke de som vitnet for
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