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follow the money from bushes to barnes

HIS­TORY NEEDS TO KNOW that former Lieutenant-Governor of Texas Ben Barnes has ac­knowl­edged being in­volved in an ef­fort to get Iran to hold the Amer­ican hostages so that Ronald Reagan could win the pres­i­dency in 1980. This is known as the Oc­tober Sur­prise and there is a trail from this through the Bushes to Barnes. [Read more] “follow the money from bushes to barnes”

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why the hell wasn’t this october surprise story followed for years?

SOMEONE IN THE REAGAN CAMP ap­proached the Iranian hostage takers in 1980 about not making a deal with Pres­i­dent Carter until after the US elec­tions of that year. Why wasn’t this story fol­lowed by the media and others for years ex­cept for a few people? And you know what they called us, right? [Read more] “why the hell wasn’t this october surprise story followed for years?”