Wow, looks like W wasn't the only right-winger who stole elections.

I always thought it was suspicious that the Iranians delayed releasing the American hostages until the day Ronald Reagan actually was sworn in as President Of The United States. I found it even more so, that his Vice-President (George Herbert Walker Bush) was once a director of the CIA.

There was also this pesky, nagging thought in the back of my head, that some of the Iranian radicals behind the group that overthrew the Shah had ties to the CIA.

Still ... all just conjecture, right? It's not like that had any impact on the 1980 US Presidential Election, right?

Well ...

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/09/09/bushs-october-surprise-file-in-dispute/

Wow ...

"The National Archives is reconsidering its initial refusal to release Secret Service records regarding the whereabouts of George H.W. Bush on Oct. 19, 1980, when the then-Republican vice presidential candidate is alleged by some witnesses to have secretly traveled to Paris for illicit meetings with Iranian officials.


Gary M. Stern, general counsel for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), told me that a “serious review” is under way regarding my complaint that an earlier decision – to withhold that information out of concern for the safety of Secret Service agents – made no sense.

Stern said a decision is likely in the next couple of weeks, a time frame that suggests that Bush’s approval is being sought before any final decision is reached. Under existing rules, Bush could assert executive privilege to prevent a release, but that could be overturned by President Barack Obama or the White House counsel’s office.

For the past two decades, the senior George Bush has resisted releasing this information, even when it was sought by congressional investigators in 1992 as part of an inquiry into whether Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign went behind President Jimmy Carter’s back to delay release of 52 Americans then held hostage in Iran, the so-called October Surprise controversy.

Though redacted Secret Service reports were released in the early 1990s showing that Bush was taking that weekend off in Washington (with two non-public visits on Oct. 19, 1980), key details of those movements were whited-out, including the destination of an afternoon trip."

Why is it I'm not surprised that a cheating family is behind much of the disasters that have hit America?