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32. Our Pentagon assets are hotter and smarter than your Pentagon assets

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While considering this smartass answer I looked for Reagan Pentagon assets which led me to a Wikipedia page that needs attention and rewrite. This is the lame description of the Iran-Contra fiasco on the ‘Reagan Doctrine’ Wikipedia page:

Iran–Contra affair
U.S. funding for the Contras, who opposed the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, was obtained from covert sources. The U.S. Congress did not authorize sufficient funds for the Contras' efforts, and the Boland Amendment barred further funding. In 1986, in an episode that became known as The Iran–Contra affair, the Reagan administration illegally facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, in the hope that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Doctrine

This paragraph is phrased to minimize something that was a massive scandal at the time. “Obtained from covert sources”? Reagan was illegally arming both sides of a war to create a slush fund for the purpose of supporting Nicaraguan rebels in the hopes of overthrowing yet another democratically elected left-wing government.

M comments:
Iran–Contra affair
U.S. funding for (really, “Reagan’s funding of” since Congress had already passed a law against it) for the Contras, who opposed the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, was obtained (passive) from covert sources. The U.S. Congress did not authorize sufficient funds (oh, bad Congress for not giving “sufficient” funds…as judged by the plotters in Reagan’s circle?) for the Contras' efforts, and the Boland Amendment barred further funding. In 1986, in an episode (Reagan just had an ‘episode’ while Bill’s affair rises to the level of a ‘scandal’) that became known as The Iran–Contra affair, the Reagan administration illegally facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo, in the hope that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages was that really their main purpose or hope? An amnesiac public will carelessly link this to the Iranian hostages that ‘Reagan brought home’) and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.

Somebody ought to rewrite this.