{"id":879,"date":"2004-06-11T02:07:15","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T07:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/i-cant-remember-either\/"},"modified":"2004-06-11T02:07:15","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T07:07:15","slug":"i-cant-remember-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/i-cant-remember-either\/","title":{"rendered":"i can&#8217;t remember either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>reelection on reagan&#8217;s coattails&#8230; you can&#8217;t ask for better timing than this&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/06\/20040610-36.html\">President Bush Holds Press Conference Following the G8 Summit<\/a> [the white house]<\/div>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: I can&#8217;t remember if I&#8217;ve seen the memo or not,  but I gave those instructions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/offdocs\/walsh\/chap_27.htm\">final report of the independent counsel for iran\/contra matters<\/a>, volume 1, chapter 27.  Grand Jury Interrogatories, Answer to Question 24 from Ronald Reagan<\/div>\n<p>I do not recall signing a Finding relating to Iranian arms transactions in November or December 1985. I am aware that an unsigned version of such a Finding exists . . . although I am told that a signed version has not been found. I have been advised that the CIA was told contemporaneously that on December 5, 1985, I signed a Finding relating to this initiative. While I do not deny having signed such a Finding, I have no current recollection of doing so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>bush doesn&#8217;t remember seeing the memos telling him how he could justify authorizing torture of prisoners in american custody, in apparent violation of united states law, and reagan couldn&#8217;t remember seeing the operational details of how his staff could get around congressional restrictions on arms sales to the contras.<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t remember why we tolerate this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reelection on reagan&#8217;s coattails&#8230; you can&#8217;t ask for better timing than this&#8230; President Bush Holds Press Conference Following the G8 Summit [the white house] THE PRESIDENT: I can&#8217;t remember if I&#8217;ve seen the memo or not, but I gave those instructions. final report of the independent counsel for iran\/contra matters, volume 1, chapter 27. Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}