The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

[jayjayj 571]

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

 

"In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.

The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.

Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies."

[jayjayj 571]

I guess when the President derails an ongoing law enforcement operation for purely political reasons, it isn't obstruction of justice - it sure sounds like it though.

[jayjayj 571]

This is bad.  

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/17/obama-administration-undermined-anti-hezbollah-task-force-to-help-secure-iran-nuke-deal-report-says.html

 

"The Obama administration gave a free pass to Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations — some of which were unfolding inside the U.S. — to help ensure the Iran nuclear deal would stay on track, according to a bombshell exposé in Politico Sunday.

An elaborate campaign led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, known as Project Cassandra, reportedly targeted the Lebanese militant group’s criminal activities. But by tossing a string of roadblocks holding back the project, Obama administration officials helped allow the 35-year-old anti-Israel criminal enterprise to evolve into a major global security threat bankrolling terrorist and military operations, the report added.

“This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision,” David Asher, who helped establish Project Cassandra as a Defense Department illicit finance analyst in 2008, told Politico. “They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down.”"

[eieio 1,594]

Obama plan. If someone wants to kill you....blame America, give terrorists money, claim victory, bury head in sand.

[Dashinka 24,793]

Apparently Obama wanted them to move up to the varsity level.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Please stick to the subject of Trump. Please do not point out the wrongliness of Obama  and Hillary as they are not in office any more, and what does it matter anyway

 

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