The Honor of Elliott Abrams
By The Editors
February 14, 2019 5:00 PM
Three weeks ago, Elliott Abrams returned to government. This was very good news for U.S. foreign policy. He is the State Department’s special representative for Venezuela. And his presence on the public stage has reignited passions about the Reagan administration’s record in Latin America.
Abrams was the assistant secretary of state for Latin America in Reagan’s second term. During the first, he had been assistant secretary for international organizations, and then for human rights. (Abrams joined the administration when he was in his early 30s.)
Like many others he was caught up in the Iran-Contra affair, and he pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress. (Two misdemeanor counts.) He was pardoned by the first President Bush. There is a story to be told about all this, which we will not get into here. Abrams told it in a book, Undue Process: A Story of How Political Differences Are Turned into Crimes.
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Typical National Review, often they become "apologists" or "defenders"; I'm not criticizing them and they may be right and there is a lot of anti-Abrams/Reagan/Bush/North stuff out there. So, it needs to be said. See comments too. A difficult period.
Link in comments:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000049067.pdfWe have declassified a lot of these documents, I think we are compelled to release all of them on a timely basis or FOIA.
