Question 8 • United States History and Geography
The Reagan administration secretly supported the Contra rebels fighting Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, even after Congress restricted U.S. aid to the Contras. The Iran-Contra affair revealed that officials were willing to bypass those legal limits to pursue their anti-Communist goals. Therefore, the best answer is “It was willing to operate outside the law to achieve its goals.”
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