Reply #2: U.S. Senator challenged Bush in 1988 over Posada Carriles case [View All]

FWIW I came across this last week, more at link from the 1988 Congressional record.

http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/posada/posada16may.htm

"Since the public announcement that self-confessed terrorist Luís Posada Carriles had entered U.S. territory and requested political asylum, a number of documents have appeared giving interesting details on the case. One of them contains a comment directed at George Bush that is especially eye-opening: "The Posada case demonstrates that you didn't bother to use your offices and your International Terrorism Task Force to investigate the activities of a known international terrorist. Was it because of Posada's past ties with the CIA?"

One might think that these words came from one of Cuba's recent pronouncements on the subject, but, interestingly enough, it came from a U.S. senator during a Senate hearing in 1988 on the Iran-Contra scandal.

Tom Harkin, Democratic senator for Indiana since 1984, specifically aimed his remarks at then Vice-President George H.W. Bush - father of the current president - to explain everything he knew regarding Posada Carriles and why he had not acted against the terrorist.

There's more. Harkin added: "You owe it to America's voters to reaffirm your commitment against terrorism and the first step is to come clean about Luis Posada, the international terrorist."

Congressional Record - Senate

Thursday, September 22, 1988;
(Legislative day of Wednesday, September 7, 1988)"