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Topic: Iran-contra scandal

Richard Nixon and Bill Barr (Getty Images/Salon)

How GOP became the party of crime

Paul Rosenberg
(Getty/Jim Watson)

Democrats must act before it's too late

Heather Digby Parton
(Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

How GOP trained its base not to care

Amanda Marcotte
Elliott Abrams; George H. W. Bush; Caspar Weinberger; William Barr (AP/Getty/Salon)

Media ignores Barr's Iran-Contra pardons

Sam Husseini - FAIR
Ken Starr; Archibald Cox; Robert Mueller; Leon Jaworski (AP/Getty/Salon)

Why Robert Mueller can't save us

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump; William Barr (Wikimedia/Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Why Barr is a terrible AG nominee

William Rivers Pitt - Truthout
Al Gore; Barack Obama; Bill Clinton; Nancy Pelosi (AP/Getty/Salon)

Democrats: Playing nice is not an option

Paul Rosenberg
Investigative Journalist, Robert Parry. (AP)

Robert Parry: More than a muckraker

Patrick Lawrence
Erik Prince; Oliver North (AP/Gerry Broome/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump's super-secret spy team

Heather Digby Parton
Tom Cruise as Barry Seal in "American Made" (Universal Pictures)

Tom Cruise plays a giddy drug-runner

Max Cea
Oliver North, Ronald Reagan (Getty/Staff/Handout)

Watergate or Iran-Contra?

Paul Rosenberg
(Getty/Mark Makela)

Flynn: Right-wing hero?

Amanda Marcotte
Oliver North (AP/Susan Walsh)

The worst Bergdahl hypocrite

Heather Digby Parton
Sharyl Attkisson (CBS News)

Attkisson's Benghazi obsession

Simon Maloy
Ben Affleck and Bryan Cranston in "Argo"

Can Affleck save Jimmy Carter?

Andrew O'Hehir
President Ronald Reagan shortly after the Iran-contra scandal engulfed his administration in November 1986. (AP/Dennis Cook)

The Iran-contra scandal, 25 years later

Peter Kornbluh
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