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In addition to the role of future President Clinton, controversy has also focused upon the role of future President George H. W. Bush. The Walsh report noted:
In addition to the role of future President Clinton, controversy has also focused upon the role of future President George H. W. Bush. The Walsh report noted:
{{cquote| In an early interview with the FBI in December 1986 and in the OIC deposition in January 1988, Bush acknowledged that he was regularly informed of events connected with the Iran arms sales, including the 1985 Israeli missile shipments.2 These statements conflicted with his more extreme public assertions that he was "out of the loop" regarding the operational details of the Iran initiative and was generally unaware of the strong opposition to the arms sales by Secretary of Defense Weinberger and Secretary of State George P. Shultz. He denied knowledge of the diversion of proceeds from the arms sales to assist the contras.3 He also denied knowledge of the secret contra-resupply operation supervised by North.4<ref>http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_28.htm</ref>}}
{{cquote| In an early interview with the FBI in December 1986 and in the OIC deposition in January 1988, Bush acknowledged that he was regularly informed of events connected with the Iran arms sales, including the 1985 Israeli missile shipments.2 These statements conflicted with his more extreme public assertions that he was "out of the loop" regarding the operational details of the Iran initiative and was generally unaware of the strong opposition to the arms sales by Secretary of Defense Weinberger and Secretary of State George P. Shultz. He denied knowledge of the diversion of proceeds from the arms sales to assist the contras.3 He also denied knowledge of the secret contra-resupply operation supervised by North.4<ref>http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_28.htm</ref>}}
Bush had also failed to produce his private diary in response to the independent counsel's subpeonas. On December 24, 1992, Bush pardoned Weinberger and five other government officials accused of Iran-Contra crimes. Following the pardon, then-President Bush refused to be interviewed further about the topic.
Bush had also failed to produce his private diary in response to the independent counsel's subpeonas.
This also acted as a focal point early into the [[1988 Presidential Election]], which ironically also ended up humiliating the mainstream media. On January 25, 1988, Then-CBS News Anchor [[Dan Rather]] proceeded to do ambush journalism on the then-Republican Presidential Candidate where he, under the pretense of a campaign profile interview, screamed at him about the [[Iran-Contra affair]] and that it made America look like a hypocrite to the world in an attempt at publicly embarrassing the candidate. However, Bush did not flinch and instead calmly retorted "It’s not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your whole career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?", referring to an incident Rather was involved in several months beforehand where Rather, irritated at having his newscast held up by a tennis match in Miami, Florida, walked off the set to complain to his bosses about the assignment while the news segment was still ongoing, resulting in six full minutes of a blank screen. It resulted in several journalists, themselves of the left such as ''60 Minutes'' co-host Mike Wallace, ABC's Sam Donaldson, and then ''Time'' editor and later Obama official Richard Stengel, condemned Rather for his behavior, with their conceding by a significant margin of 42 percent to 27 percent that Bush won that encounter, and that Rather was considered rude in a similar poll, which stated that 51% considering him rude, and only 38 percent thought otherwise.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2018/01/25/flashback-30-years-ago-tonight-dan-rathers-failed-fake-news</ref>
On December 24, 1992, Bush pardoned Weinberger and five other government officials accused of Iran-Contra crimes. Following the pardon, then-President Bush refused to be interviewed further about the topic.
==See also==
==See also==