McCain Featured In Iran-Contra Group's Newsletter

A newsletter from 1984 provides more embarrassing evidence of John McCain's relationship with the U.S. Council on World Freedom, a group that was involved in funding militant anti-communists and espoused some anti-Semitic views.

McCain's face graces the front page of the group's "World Freedom Report," published on Dec. 15, 1984, a copy of which was obtained from the research library at the University of Kansas. The front page also features a reprint of an article McCain penned that same month for Reader's Digest.

In the early 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board of the Council on World Freedom, which funded and provided arms to what the Associated Press described as "ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America." The group also "aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua," which landed it "in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair and in legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which revoked the charitable organization's tax exemption."

When McCain's connection to the council received its first blast of press attention earlier this month, his campaign told Politico that McCain "disassociated himself" from the group in 1984 "when questions were raised about its activities."

But the group's tax filing in 1985, covering the previous year, lists McCain as a member of the advisory board. And in October 1985, a States News Service report placed McCain "at a Washington awards ceremony staged by the council."

Moreover, in 1986, McCain himself told the Phoenix New Times that his reason for leaving the group merely had to do with a lack of time.

Asked by the AP this year about McCain's alleged efforts to distance himself from the council in both 1984 and 1986 (when McCain had to ask to have his name removed from the group's stationary), founder John Singlaub said: "That's a surprise to me. ... I don't ever remember hearing about his resigning."

Though the group's founder also said it was possible that McCain had asked to resign and he hadn't heard about the "housekeeping" details, the Council's unearthed newsletter from late 1984 would seem to support Singlaub's -- and not McCain's -- memory of the events.

Comments

[getoffthecross]

09:47 AM on 10/26/2008

the Iran Contra "group" has a newsletter­???

G. Gorden Liddy must feel pretty lazy, what with there being no "plumber's sentinel" or something.­..

http://www­.jokerzint­ernetradio­.com/phpmo­tion/play.­php?vid=10­8

[bob8788]

08:36 AM on 10/26/2008

John mccain is simply a loser

http://www­.barackoba­macans.blo­gspot.com/

[robbie44]

12:28 AM on 10/26/2008

You guys sure do bust McCain a lot.

[Revolt916]

10:06 PM on 10/25/2008

I guess we need to vet Mc Cain some more.

[1differentdrummer]

06:30 PM on 10/25/2008

Good old John. What a sordid past and sorry present.

[dizmo4]

03:08 PM on 10/25/2008

Lets hope the MSM covers this. I doubt this will make a huge impact but it could stall any gains mcCain tries to make for a day..

[syllepsis]

01:27 PM on 10/25/2008

So McCain supported a group that was a front for Reagan Admin terrorist activity, and that subverted the express will of Congress.
We have another Contra supporter subverting the will of Congress in a prominent public office right now: His name is Dick Cheney.

[westcoastsc]

01:44 AM on 10/26/2008

Don't forget the importatio­n of bad white stuff for sale in America, hundreds of tons and they sold them in African American neighborho­ods.

[sherbug]

11:01 AM on 10/25/2008

McCain will buy up all the copies and send them out as Christmas cards. His sins are never punished. Nobody pays any attention to Keating or his meeting with the Chilean dictator or any of his past sins and nobody will pay attention to this. The liberal media is the only outlet that will talk about this and the right will spin it as liberal mischief. The choice of Palin was McCain's down fall. He seems to be made of teflon, but Palin isn't. Pretty much everything sticks to her.

[westcoastsc]

01:11 PM on 10/25/2008

When you have people preventing investigat­ions and controllin­g of the media Teflon, you're buying into their smoke and mirrors game, the image they have put out as untouchabl­e. If we had prosecuted the Nixon and all of his cohorts, G. Gordon Liddy to the fullest extent of the law, do you think we would be in this mess today? You have even bought into calling things right or left. Avoid polemic thinking. Let us talk about truth. So called liberals seem a lot more fiscally conservati­ve than people who call themselves conservati­ve. They sit there and demand equal time to tell blatant lies, labeling people who speak the truth liberal with derision, saying it enough times as if it is some bad word. Don't let them dominate discussion with their labels. What is liberal? What is conservati­ve? What is progressiv­e? Let us talk about what these words really mean and how some have been corrupted in politics. What is more of the same? What is change?

[songoftherushes]

10:41 AM on 10/25/2008

This isn't a great angle to hit mc on. He didn't write the story FOR the mag, it was "a reprint of an article McCain penned that same month for Reader's Digest."
And the rest of it is too fuzzy, ie when he disassocia­ted himself from the group. Unless there is more evidence of active involvemen­t, this is a non-runner­.

[westcoastsc]

12:57 PM on 10/25/2008

Please, look a little more and find out how tight he is with Singlaub.

[songoftherushes]

02:39 PM on 10/25/2008

But it is too late in the day for this. There was 'reform' and Ronald Reagan approval etc... the average punter isn't going to be swayed by any of this, certainly not as it would be portrayed in the msm. It would be a distractio­n.

[toddag]

02:01 AM on 10/25/2008

One consistant technique the McCaine camp has tried to use is projection­. Anything they say about Obama, turns out to be true in spades about McCain.

[lola85]

12:07 AM on 10/26/2008

Absolutely true. I think it is SO STRANGE that McCain doesn't realize we can look all this stuff up. McCain and Palin are total hypocrites­.

Obama/Bide­n '08
Keep HOPE alive

[mesuki]

01:50 AM on 10/25/2008

Why is it that it's always the folks that live in glass houses that always throws the first stone. McCain better thank his lucky stars that Obama is a decent and honest man......I­'m sure Obama knows about these things,but chooses to take the high road instead of the gutter. I give Obama lots of credit cause I don't think I would be able to hold back from slaming Mccain with the same stuff that he's dishing out....Mcc­ain is such a hypocrite!

[westcoastsc]

02:20 AM on 10/25/2008

They need to be revealed. They need to go to see how they withstand the full extent of the law and investigat­ion. Nancy Pelosi needs to take action in order to protect Obama.

[chosenson]

07:51 PM on 10/24/2008

This group armed the Taliban and Osama.

[HST]

03:07 AM on 10/25/2008

McSame pals around with people who fund terrorists­! There's just too much about McSame we don't know.

[Daw8it]

07:44 PM on 10/24/2008

Iran Contra, Dictator Pinochet, Keating 5, Abortion Clinic Bomber

His whole career he surrounded himself with the worsts people. What makes you think that he won't do the same if elected president

[jlarue]

08:29 PM on 10/24/2008

Dont forget Cindy!

[LALC]

09:27 PM on 10/24/2008

What about Liddy, Timmons, Lindner &......??

[ANewAmerica]

07:30 PM on 10/24/2008

someone needs to send this to elizabeth hasselback on the view... her precious and innocent candidate pals around with terrorists­...

[stateretiree]

09:10 PM on 10/24/2008

She wouldn't believe it or she would have some half brained neocon explanatio­n for it.

[RoaringMoose]

01:26 AM on 10/25/2008

I have family like that; "Don't confuss me with Facts my mind is made up" Dah

[westcoastsc]

02:30 AM on 10/25/2008

She bet her "highlight­s" that Obama was worse than McCain. Nuff said.

[Dave01]

06:45 PM on 10/24/2008

Everyone SERIOUSLY needs to digg this so that MSM will pick up on it.