A wee item about the #Sackler foundation donating money, in this case to an #NHS trust caught. Rightful outrage and questions about how they have managed avoid prison.
Then I remembered that the USA is a country that funded arms to #Iran, in order to support Central American terrorists by promoting the sale and distribution of drugs in their own country (#IranContra). If it was a film script or a novel it would be rejected as fantasy. The Sacklers fit in.
Whistleblower Was Ignored After He Provided Information About 9/11 Attacks to CIA
In December 1998, Michael Riconosciuto was serving out a 26-year prison sentence at Allenwood Penitentiary in Pennsylvania on drug charges when he was given information by a rabbi close to his family about an al-Qaeda plot to hijack airplanes and crash...#TIL that #FawnHall married her former boss #OliverNorth in August of 2025.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_Hall
As someone who came of age during #IranContra, I'm not sure what to do with that information.
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116143925499609222
Ah, the old “Ronald Reagan” defense…
The #Reagan admin engaged in blatant violations of federal #law during the #IranContra scandal, in which it sold weapons to the #Iran regime & used the finances to support anti-communist death squads in #Nicaragua. George H. W. #Bush, the former head of the #CIA, pardoned nearly all of the officials implicated in Iran-Contra—a move that many Americans supported, because they believed that fighting communism justified extreme measures.