Torie
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« on: March 19, 2023, 10:47:41 AM » |
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From the NYT article:
None of that establishes whether Mr. Reagan knew about the trip, nor could Mr. Barnes say that Mr. Casey directed Mr. Connally to take the journey. Likewise, he does not know if the message transmitted to multiple Middle Eastern leaders got to the Iranians, much less whether it influenced their decision making. But Iran did hold the hostages until after the election, which Mr. Reagan won, and did not release them until minutes after noon on Jan. 20, 1981, when Mr. Carter left office.
The dots are not that well connected, and I am skeptical that the Reagan campaign was colluding to keep the hostages locked up until after the election, if only because the risk reward ratio for the Reagan campaign sucked. If caught, it would have been curtains for them, and it would take only one foreign leader to spill the beans for it all to come tumbling down.
Too bad that at this point I guess just about all of those who would have been in the know to comment are dead.
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