Firewall

With Ronald Reagan's knowledge and support, the United States attempted to trade arms for hostages held by Iranian terrorists; some of the secret money then funded the guerrilla activities of the Nicaraguan Contras, a counter-revolutionary group that Congress had specifically forbidden the administration to support. In this historic, first-person account, the independent counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation exposes the extraordinary duplicity of the highest officials of the Reagan administration and the paralyzing effects of the cover-up.
In its chilling and unsparing revelations, "Firewall" offers the definitive account of the most dangerous breach of presidential authority since Watergate: The Iran-Contra conspiracy and cover-up . Photos.
Lawrence E. Walsh (1912--2014) was an American lawyer and former U.S. District Court judge and Deputy Attorney General who was appointed Independent Counsel in December 1986 to investigate the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan Administration.
We would never have known the truth about Iran-Contra without the tenacious seven-year struggle by the independent counsel in the affair, Lawrence Walsh, to get to the bottom of it...Of first-rate historical importance.--Doug Ireland
Not simply an important public accounting of an egregiously misconceived policy, but a cautionary tale of power.--August Richard Norton