The intriguing question arising at Oliver North's Iran-contra trial goes beyond whether Ronald Reagan was aware of the secret policy his subordinates carried out in his name. Put bluntly, the new question is, Did the former President not only approve of the policy but lie about it in 1987 when he told the Tower commission that he did not know of the National Security Council's assistance to the rebels?
According to the report of the three-man board (John Tower, Edmund Muskie and Brent Scowcroft), which interviewed Reagan twice, the President insisted "he did not know that the NSC staff was engaged...
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