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In 1989, a trial jury in Federal Court found North guilty of three charges: lying to Congress, destroying evidence, and diverting public money to his personal use. The conviction was overturned on appeal by a 2-1 vote in the appeals court based upon a technicality, i.e., that the prosecution’s case was put together using information presented by North in testimony at a Congressional hearing, for which testimony he was granted immunity from prosecution. The appeal court based its decision entirely upon that technicality; the issue of North’s guilt or innocence of the charges had no bearing on the appeals court’s decision.
Those three charges, however alarming, were merely the minor sweepings with which the prosecutor was left to pursue North after Congress granted him immunity from prosecution for his testimony in the Iran-Contra scandal hearings. That grant of immunity swept aside violations of a host of U.S. laws related to exports of munitions items from the United States, about which I have close personal knowledge based upon my own job. In his testimony to Congress, North admitted his central role in arranging the export to Iran of over 2000 U.S. TOW (anti-tank) and HAWK (anti-aircraft) missiles and spare parts, to
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