Iran Contra II?

Laura Rozen (3:43AM) link

My new story is up at the Washington Monthly, the first of a two-part investigation undertaken by me and my colleagues. And I can now say that I tracked down and interviewed the Iran Contra arms merchant Manucher Ghorbanifar for it, earlier this month. Why should you care? Because over the past three years, Mr. Ghorbanifar has been part of a secret back channel with a small group of neoconservative hardliners, including two who work for Doug Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy. One of the Pentagon officials involved in the back channel, Larry Franklin, is now reportedly the subject of an FBI investigation for allegedly passing classified US documents to Israel, via the lobbying group, Aipac. Both the secret Ghorbanifar-DoD back channel, and the classified documents Franklin is alleged to have given the Israelis, concern US policy to Iran. Given that, the meetings we describe in the story have become the subject of great interest to FBI investigators and the Senate Select Intelligence Committee alike.