Iran-Contra Hearings Day 18: Fawn Hall Testimony Part 6 (1987)

June 8, 1987 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DRMTZS?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link... Watch the full testimony: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/09/iran-contra-hearings-day-18-fawn-...

A traveler's cheque (also traveller's cheque, travellers cheque, traveller's check or traveler's check) is a preprinted, fixed-amount cheque designed to allow the person signing it to make an unconditional payment to someone else as a result of having paid the issuer for that privilege.

Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American lawyer and politician who served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He is currently a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

During the Reagan administration, Abrams gained notoriety for his involvement controversial foreign policy decisions regarding Nicaragua and El Salvador. During Bush's first term, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. At the start of Bush's second term, Abrams was promoted to be his Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy, in charge of promoting Bush's strategy of advancing democracy abroad. His appointment by Bush was controversial due to his conviction in 1991 on two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra Affair investigation.

Abrams first came to national prominence when he served as Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the early 1980s and later as Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs. His nomination to Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs was unanimously approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on November 17, 1981. Abrams was Reagan's second choice for the position; his first nominee, Ernest W. Lefever, had been rejected by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on June 5, 1981.

During this time, Abrams clashed regularly with church groups and human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch. and Amnesty International, over the Reagan administration's foreign policies. They accused him of covering up atrocities committed by the military forces of US-backed governments, such as those in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, and the rebel Contras in Nicaragua.

When Congress shut down funding for the Contras' efforts to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government with the 1982 Boland Amendment, the Reagan administration began looking for other avenues for funding the group. Congress opened a couple of such avenues when it modified the Boland Amendment for fiscal year 1986 by approving $27 million in direct aid to the Contras and allowing the administration to legally solicit funds for the Contras from foreign governments. Neither the direct aid, nor any foreign contributions, could be used to purchase weapons. Guided by the new provisions of the modified Boland Amendment, Abrams flew to London in August 1986 and met secretly with Bruneian defense minister General Ibnu to solicit a $10-million contribution from the Sultan of Brunei. Ultimately, the Contras never received this money because a clerical error in Oliver North's office (a mistyped account number) sent the Bruneian money to the wrong Swiss bank account.

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[letstalkaboutstuff]

@PunkysDilema1970 I don't know if she's dumb, but back then she was young and a very obedient pet criminal for the boys.

[letstalkaboutstuff]

@winstonsmith6076 Wikipedia seems to limit Hall's activities. There's a lot more about her I'm sure they will never add, as is the case for Wikipedia and MOST government crimes and serious scandals. Wikipedia is highly censored.

[deadmanshand2010]

i'd bang her.

[winstonsmith6076]

From Wikipedia: Hall underwent drug rehabilitation for an addiction to crack cocaine in the mid-1990s, it being reported at the time that Sugerman first exposed Hall to the drug.

[JennRighter]

@PunkysDilema1970 Are you holding a mirror or something?

[PunkysDilema1970]

hey, look,. . . it's a dumb girl