Fiasco

Matt Roush says...

From the podcasting folks that produced last year’s riveting Slow Burn docuseries about Watergate, a new six-part series tackles one of the biggest political scandals of the 1980s: the Iran-Contra affair, a low point for the Reagan presidency. Key players and journalists lay out the facts involving the illegal “arms-for-hostages” deal with Iran, with proceeds intending to fund the Contras in Nicaragua, which Congress had prohibited. The hearings were spellbinding TV, and this ought to be as well.

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