It’s a constitutional separation of powers question.
Neither of these meetings , while perhaps not technically illegal considering the current state of affairs, are not to seemly anyway you view them, nonetheless, coupled with their’s and others overall reaching-out effort to the more suspect leaders on the Middle East also has a tremendous potential of use as propaganda and clearly circumvents the President in performing the duties and responsibility to handling the foreign affairs side of things...
I don’t particularly care for a “democracy” established that leaves a back door open for the dems to wander in and out whenever it is convenient for them on a first name basis, regardless the effect on our nation and allies or which party holds the WH.
Yes, back on the real topic: what matters to America and our interests. I agree on all points - Pelosi is a loose canon.
From http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/52768.htm
Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. was sworn in as Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt on August 26, 2005. He was nominated by President Bush on July 25, 2005, and confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 2005. Ambassador Ricciardone previously served as Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau from 2002 to 2005. Prior to that, Ambassador Ricciardone served as Director of the Department’s Task Force on the Coalition Against Terrorism and as a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service. From March 1999 until early 2001, he served as the Secretary of State’s Special Coordinator for the Transition of Iraq.
Ambassador Ricciardone was born in Boston and graduated from Malden Catholic High School. Upon graduation summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1973, he received a Fulbright Scholarship for teaching and study in Italy. He went to Iran as a teacher in 1976, traveling widely in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Middle East until he entered the Foreign Service in 1978.
Ambassador Ricciardone’s Foreign Service assignments include two tours in Turkey, most recently (1995-1999) as Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires; and service in Cairo, Amman, and London. He served in two multinational military deployments: as chief of the Civilian Observer Unit of the Multinational Force and Observers in Egypt’s Sinai Desert, and as Political Advisor to the U.S. and Turkish commanding generals of Operation Provide Comfort, based in Turkey and operating in Iraq. In Washington, DC, Ambassador Ricciardone has served in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, and in senior management positions under the Director General of the Foreign Service and of Human Resources. He has won high awards for policy and program management and for political reporting.
Mr. Ricciardone speaks Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and French. (End)
I dunno between maybe some bugs and maybe a full blown traitor. I hope to God it’s bugs.