Did Oliver North warn Al Gore about Osama bin Laden at Senate hearings in 1987?
This ridiculous hoax has been circulating since 2001, even though the secretary of the U.S. Senate and North himself have debunked it. FULL QUESTION To the editor, I’ve gotten this e-mail more than once. Is it true? Do you remember 1987…….. Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of information……… ⬐ Click to expand/collapse the full text ⬏ expand(document.getElementById(‘eet556337934’));expand(document.getElementById(‘eetlink556337934’)) It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt. Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Co ntra hearings during the Reagan Administration. There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning! He was being drilled by a senator; ‘Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?’ Ollie replied, ‘Yes, I did, Sir.’ The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, ‘Isn’t that just a little excessive?’ ‘No, sir,’ continued
