Trish Regan Quotes
During the Mueller investigation, Roger Stone lied to federal investigators and allegedly pressured one potential witness. Not good. Never good.
Regan, Trish. Trish Regan Primetime. Fox Business Network, 2018-2020.
Casey frequently withheld information from Congress that he was legally required to report, did things without Congressional authorization and often lied in his testimony and reports to Congress.
In the first real code of laws of the first American Coony in Virginia,, lying under oath was a capital offense.
During his Ambassadorial confirmation hearings Helms lied about the role the CIA under his direction had played in the destabilization of Chile and the Allende administration. In 1977 he was convicted of perjury. He was not convicted for carrying out any presidential orders but for lying under oath to Congress. No President had ordered him to do that. The CIA had covertly aided in a coup usurping the popular, elected President Salvador Allende—today a national hero in Chile. We picked the wrong side in the political battle in Chile. We helped a military dictator overthrow a democratically elected president. See {622168}.
He was replying to Senator Grassley--{637990}. This quotation is one of the saddest admissions in American law enforcement and corporate regulatory history. A small group of very wealthy men, working for huge financial corporations caused the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The Government regulators were reined in by the Bush Presidential administration and were none to competent anyway. The Clinton Administration repealed the Glass Stiegel Act allowing banks to gamble with customer’s The Congress made matters worse by kowtowing to the housing and real estate special interests and overheating the housing market. But with all that some of the many of the financial executives committed crimes ranging from financial fraud to forgery of court documents. But they had put the country into such a poor economic state, that the Obama administration feared that prosecution of some of the leading financial executive criminals would spook the financial markets and cause an even greater economic situation. At least the Attorney General admitted the truth of Senator Grassley’s suspicion--{637990}.
the CIA and the FBI This was not the only time where the CIA and the FBI impeded investigations of serious criminals. Both for example withheld evidence and lied to the Warren Commission investigating the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. The FBI for years helped Southern Law Enforcement officials cover up their and other racial murders and assaults. The CIA had a history of lying to a number of presidents. Each time a reorganization and house cleaning promised to change the agency, but it only works for a while. In the case of the Nazis, it started with our intelligence agencies trying to bring Nazi and Japanese scientists who had committed war crimes to the U. S. to help develop weapons against the Russians, who were also lying to their own people and bringing them to Russia to develop weapons for use against the West. Then Nazi spymasters were brought over and soon, any Nazi War criminal who would claim that he and information about the Communists of Eastern Europe or Russia. Finally, it was lower level Nazi concentration camp guards who had murdered inmates. At that time the intelligence agencies did not want American knowing that many war criminals were living well in the United States even though they were often wanted for crimes in Germany of other European countries. So they preferred that the investigations cease and the media not focus on the problem. There is no evidence that President Reagan knew about the investigation obstructions, however his assistant Pat Buchanan had a history of trying to stop of delay the deportation of Nazi War criminals who had lied on their applications to enter the United States. Many analysts noted a tendency toward anti-semitism in his personal and public life, and he was particularly unconcerned when the victims of the war crimes had been Russians or other European communists.
Helms, then Deputy CIA Director, and other CIA witnesses, even though under oath, covered up the fact that they had initiated and failed in a number of attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro which since became public knowledge. There may well have been other CIA motivations for misleading the commission. The fact that they did, as well as the FBI which also was not truthful with the commission, has led credence to all the wild conspiracy theories that people have come up with about the assassination. See {642340}.
Patricia Ann Regan is a conservative American television talk show host and author. She hosted Trish Regan Primetime on the Fox Business Network from 2015 to 2020.
