Documented facts from IranContra are now being downplayed as 'speculation', eh? [View all]

Since when are facts that can be found in many of Robert Parry's articles and Sen. John Kerry's reports considered 'speculation' that needs to be hidden from main forums here on DU? No relevance to our support for Obama's choice or for Kerry's qualifications for Sec of State?

http://www.salon.com/2004/10/25/contra/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-ross/how-john-kerry-exposed-th_b_2469665.html

We All Failed Gary Webb
By Robert Parry
December 10, 2008 (A Special Report)

Since Gary Webb’s suicide four years ago, I have written annual retrospectives about the late journalist’s important contribution to the historical record -- he forced devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan administration in the 1980s...
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/120908.html