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Michael Malbin

1 article 2007

Michael Malbin is a political scientist and expert on campaign finance who serves as a professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, and is the co-founder of the Campaign Finance Institute. He previously served as a staff member on the congressional Iran-Contra committee. He contributed to The Weekly Standard with analysis of the Iran-Contra affair's political legacy.

The Iran-ContraMinority Redux

July 17, 2007 · Blog

IN A RECENT New York Times op-ed, "Mr. Cheney's Minority Report" (July 19), historian Sean Wilentz claimed that there was a direct connection between Oliver North, the Iran-Contra Committee's Republican minority led by then-Rep. Richard B. Cheney, and the current Administration's view of executive…