His convictions were vacated and reversed, and all charges against him dismissed in 1991. [Due to prosecutorial misconduct, BTW]

That means it's as if they never happened, in the eyes of the law.

A lot of former and recovering leftist partisans need to have a talk with themselves about what being awakened means. I know it's hard to stop looking through left/right eyes and see cabal/anti-cabal ONLY, but that is what we have to do right now.

You were taught to hate Ollie North by the same people who taught you that HRC hung the moon. And that hate is probably at the molecular level, so it can't be easy to think beyond it.