>You mean conspiring with terrorists to have them keep US hostages longer than the terrorists intended is not a crime? Really?
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>Can't you do better than that? Usually you make better academic (if trivial and unsubstantiated) arguments to try to support whatever you are blaming the US government for.

If Iran-Contra affair left no trace on him, why would this? And why would anyone investigate a happy ending? It doesn't matter at all whether it was a crime or not, what matters is how far were the investigations allowed to go.

No, it must be the devious, cunning Persians who must have insisted on releasing the hostages on inauguration day, so to make it look like the new incumbent had a deal with them, cast a shadow of doubt... they surely knew how it would be spun in the media once it saw the light of day. Yeah, right.