The link to the report doesn't go beyond the title page. Here's a link that seems to work:

Oops. Link fixed. Thanks.

"Yeah, imagine suspecting that people in the White House might be illegally conspiring with terrorists, drug dealers, and hostile foreign powers. "

But, you see, that was different. It was morning in America, and it hadn't had its coffee yet.

and after they were so continent about the Clinton paranoia...

Shame on us.

Thanks, Ollie, for that nice long list of conspiracy theories. What a handy reference. It's missing all the rebuttals, of course, but no matter. I can overlook that.

What has boggled my mind for the past couple of years, is how the heck did Oliver North ever get back enough credibility to appear regularly on the news and report on factual things. It's not just that he won't shut up. It's that there are potentially many people in positions of power who reviewed his credentials, and then said, "He seems like a stand up guy. Let's hire him."
But then again, considering most of the interviews I've ever had, it's the most plausible thing I can think of.

Steven, what you're missing is the sizable faction that thinks North is a hero for lying to Congress himself and sparing Ronnie the trouble. Not to mention for saving the Western Hemisphere from Communism.

He tried to undermine the Constitution of the United States. His actions may not fit the legal definition of 'treason', but I think he's a traitor.

Wacky country we live in.

North did more than try to undermine the Constitution; he schemed with the government of Iran to hold on to the hostages (people who put their lives on the line and endured torture as representatives of this country) for longer, so that the Republicans could win the election. I'm not in favor of capital punishment; North is. By his own standards, he should have gone to the chair.

However, I must admit I watched him with fascination during the Iran-Contra hearings. The guy should be polishing an Oscar in his prison cell. He does have charisma, as well as an "aw shucks, I'm just a lowly Lt. Col." act that a lot of people just ate up. Heck, folks, there's nothing to worry about. Next thing you know, people will be getting all worked up and starting to believe this administration knew about 9/11 beforehand or some other kind of wacky idea...

Actually, reading North's piece is interesting; he tars the Democrats by lumping well-documented "conspiracy theories" with more fringe beliefs (e.g., about JFK's assassination). Those wacky Democrats are trying to push zany theories like the flat Earth, phlogiston, and the wacky belief that LBJ faked the Gulf of Tonkin incident...

It's the old Star Trek trick: You know, the one where Kirk talks about "all the classic authors -- Shakespeare, Homer, and Pragnol of Rebumar VII."

I'm worried that we're at the point at which rality has in fact lapped satire.

I especially enjoyed the part where Col. North announced that he would cheerfully die if his president wanted him to and then ratted him out to congress for hours and hours and hours.

"During the 1980 election, Democrats claimed that Ronald Reagan made a secret pact with Iranian fundamentalists, in order to prolong the hostage crisis and cause Jimmy Carter's support to further hemorrhage."

Gosh, guess they missed that one, too, eh?

See you're just upset because Bush's defintion of a progressive policy and yours is somewhat differing:
scroll all the way down do you see?

I'm maybe a fool, but since that web-site invites comments, I commented.

Politely...

However, I did perhaps make a mistake in resorting to words of more than one syllable. I applied reasoned argument. I fear that I resorted to my amateurish rhetoric. Worst of all, I even used a semi-colon.

So I doubt they understood me.

Ollie North. His supporters see this mature, noble Boy Scout. He looks the part, from the nose up. Something about his jaw, though, looks like Joe McCarthy, or maybe the Ewell guy who spits on Atticus Finch in the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird. I always expected that if Walt Kelly were to draw him, he'd make him a jackal.

It was a pleasure to vote against him. Well, sort of nerve-wracking: what if he'd won? I meant to steal one of his yard signs after it was over, as a souvenir of the guy who had nothing but contempt for the institution he was trying to join.

Shields are down, Captain...