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Did Hillary refuse to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization?
Hot Air ^ | 5/08/14 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 05/08/2014 8:34:18 AM PDT by blueyon

Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in Nigeria and portions of surrounding nations since 2009, when the Nigerian government tried to crack down on their arms-gathering operations. The group of Islamist terrorists had been known for much of that time to have ties to al-Qaeda, both ideological and tactical. Hundreds, perhaps thousands died in terrorist attacks from 2009 to 2013, many of them targeted for their Christianity. And yet, not until November 2013 did the US finally list Boko Haram as a terrorist group.

Why? We should ask Hillary Clinton. Josh Rogin at The Daily Beast reported last night that the State Department was asked repeatedly during her tenure as Secretary of State to add it to their list of terrorist organizations — but refused to do so:

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 5ththread; clinton; obama; sos; terrorism
I can hear her dismissing this now.........."what difference does it make..."
1 posted on 05/08/2014 8:34:18 AM PDT by blueyon
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To: blueyon

2 posted on 05/08/2014 8:36:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: blueyon

Boko Haram hates the West. So does Hillary, so why should she be critical of Boko Haram?


3 posted on 05/08/2014 8:36:43 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: blueyon

Boko Haram.....hmmmm. Wasn’t Robin Trower their guitarist in the early days?


4 posted on 05/08/2014 8:38:38 AM PDT by harwood (You don't wanna go there.)
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Boko Haram, Procol Haram...what difference does it make?
5 posted on 05/08/2014 8:39:23 AM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: BenLurkin

Uh huh. Thanks for the reminder.


6 posted on 05/08/2014 8:41:36 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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Hillary has a LOT of explaining to do.

THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BE PRESIDENT

Hillary Clinton decried the infamous kidnapping of 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, but she never mentioned that her State Department (which she ruled w/ an iron hand)---- refused to place the savage "Boko Haram" terrorist group on the State Dept list of foreign terrorist organizations...... way back in 2011, after the group bombed UN headquarters in Abuja.

Hillary's refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen Senators and Congressmen.

“The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didn’t use. And nobody can say she wasn’t urged to do it. It’s gross hypocrisy,” said a former senior U.S. official who was involved in the debate.

“The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department really wanted Boko Haram designated, they wanted the authorities that would provide to go after them, and they voiced that repeatedly to elected officials.” (Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...

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Web site--- Details on US aid to Nigeria---the agencies involved. Totals some $600,000,000.

http://us-foreign-aid.findthebest.com/l/127/Nigeria

7 posted on 05/08/2014 8:42:59 AM PDT by Liz
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To: harwood

Their charming leader looks like nothing so much as a crackhead in my NYC neighborhood circa 1989.


8 posted on 05/08/2014 8:43:26 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: JPG

In the nineties Hillary had people shot, gassed and burned because they were - wait for it - Religious fanatics who allegedly possessed fully automatic firearms, and who were allegedly molesting children. But that was then, and this is now.


9 posted on 05/08/2014 8:46:02 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: blueyon
#HillaryFailedOurGirls
10 posted on 05/08/2014 8:54:17 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: blueyon

Every one of those children can die and a dozen more replace them, and die, everyday for a year and STILL liberals will not DARE say anything politically incorrect.

A liberal can go as far as every single christian on earth having been killed by muslims until he is the last one standing... with a sword to his throat about to be executed... and he would STILL not say anything politically incorrect.


11 posted on 05/08/2014 8:56:06 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: blueyon

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hillary-s-state-department-refused-to-brand-boko-haram-as-terrorists.html

For additional reading pleasure..... ;-)


12 posted on 05/08/2014 8:59:32 AM PDT by bergmeid
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To: blueyon

Libs - “ANOTHER PHONEY SCANDAL!”


13 posted on 05/08/2014 9:05:04 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

What diffference, at this point, does it make?


14 posted on 05/08/2014 9:25:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber (Just doing laps around the sun and shaking my head that progressives can believe what they do!)
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To: blueyon

Forget picking up the phone at 3 AM, her answering machine was full from the requests from the FBI and others.


15 posted on 05/08/2014 9:29:39 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: blueyon

Hilary was listening to the music. She and Bill used to inhale to the 1960’s band Procol Harum and wanted to hear them play again.


16 posted on 05/08/2014 9:45:54 AM PDT by ncfool (Taking back America 2016.)
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To: harwood; blueyon
Boko Haram.....hmmmm. Wasn’t Robin Trower their guitarist in the early days?

Boko Haram, Procol Haram...what difference does it make?

BWAHAHA!...is it Friday already?

FMCDH(BITS)

17 posted on 05/08/2014 9:59:48 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: harwood
"all and all, it's still the same, but call me if there's any change..."

FMCDH(BITS)

18 posted on 05/08/2014 10:03:04 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: blueyon

hillary was just reflecting the opinions of her boss, who loves anyone who hates this country.


19 posted on 05/08/2014 10:53:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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