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Kerry 'taken aback' by James Foley's mother's reaction to handling of case
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/12/us/james-foley-mother-us-response/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 ^ | September 12, 2014 | Chelsea J. Carter

Posted on 09/12/2014 9:51:23 PM PDT by plain talk

The U.S. government Friday defended its handling of James Foley's case after the slain journalist's mother told CNN that officials suggested the family could be charged if they tried to raise money to free him. Saying everything possible had been done to bring the journalist home, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters officials worked very closely with Foley's family and with his employer, GlobalPost CEO Philip Balboni.

"Any advice that this department or other departments give to the families about what they should do in these situations is based solely on what is best for returning their loved one home, period," Harf said during a sometimes testy exchange with reporters. "Any accusation to the contrary is flatly wrong."

"It's part of our job to help the family understand what our laws are about ... " she said. "But this department would never, and did not ever, intend to, nor do we think we ever did anything that we would consider threatening" the family over a possible ransom.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foley; foleybeheading; foleyfamily; hostage; jamesfoley; kerry; secstatekerry
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To: doc1019
"Would love to know this idiots IQ."

Why not ask the man himself?

Hey John, what's your IQ?


21 posted on 09/12/2014 10:15:25 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: plain talk

Harf is a communist BS artist and national embarrassment.


22 posted on 09/12/2014 10:17:00 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: TigersEye
JV team.


23 posted on 09/12/2014 10:19:22 PM PDT by maggief
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To: bobo1

Yep. This isn’t left vs right. Keep the citizens divided and the American government will not change. We need a complete reset of American government, a coup followed by a shutdown of much of the government, a restoration to the original constitution with no compromise. Then a massive gutting of this behemoth. With a complete 180 to American cultural identity, ideals, and traditions.

But we need sympathizers in government for this to happen. I figure there may be a dozen in congress right now that could help make this happen. The surgery to remove this corruption is long over due.

This or secession of a few of the more conservative states is what is going to eventually happen. Or they are going to take the guns, once that happens our chances of stopping this downward spiral to death go from (best guess) around 30-40% (maybe I am being generous) to about 0-5%.

If say, Texas would secede I would pack up and move now. Only if they were to use the original constitution, and hold accountable those in public office. Officials get away with everything from fraud to murder because we let them. There is zero accountability. If you committed even one of the atrocities Obama is responsible for as head of any business you would be out on your ass in a heartbeat.


24 posted on 09/12/2014 10:19:46 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: headstamp 2

I wouldn’t be surprised if some under his command in Vietnam discussed, or even failed a plan to do so.


25 posted on 09/12/2014 10:20:45 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FlyingEagle

I believe it, but no lawyer in the world would take that case. Public officials everywhere in the world are held to zero accountability. They aren’t even afraid anymore. The respect and fear of governing a nation badly needs to be instilled into Western officials.

All we have is the illusion of being free, when really only the ones in charge are free. If you really think about it you realize that they have all been conning us for years, and if anyone gets in their way that person usually gets assassinated. They tried to get Reagan and failed, thank God for that mercy.


26 posted on 09/12/2014 10:24:31 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: maggief
I have an Oxford's and a Merriam's dictionary but I don't have a 90210 Word Explainer Book, Mizz Harf. But thanks anyway.

;^)

27 posted on 09/12/2014 10:25:39 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: TigersEye

She’s a disgrace.


28 posted on 09/12/2014 10:28:42 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

They are all a disgrace.


29 posted on 09/12/2014 10:30:44 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: plain talk

30 posted on 09/12/2014 10:33:24 PM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box then 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Impala64ssa

Awesome!

And those photos illustrate perfectly the Hollywood illusion that, to make an idiot look smart, employ thick framed, black glasses frames.


31 posted on 09/12/2014 10:42:53 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: Impala64ssa

Ever see Dana Carvey as Garth from Wayne’s World and Marie Harf at the same time?
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Excellent! That’s hilarious!


32 posted on 09/12/2014 10:59:12 PM PDT by octex
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To: plain talk

The coalition that never will be, produced by Barack Hussein Obama and John Kerry. That is all you need to know!!! The Foley family has more smarts, guts, love and determination in their “Pinky” fingers....then Obama/Kerry have in their bodies!!! Jim Foley, may you forever rest in peace, brave/loyal American!!! Obama/Kerry, failed youand our country!!!


33 posted on 09/12/2014 11:58:34 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: plain talk
"It's part of our job to help the family understand what our laws are about ... "

So says the most lawless "American" Regime ever.

34 posted on 09/13/2014 12:28:05 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: plain talk

“taken aback”
That’s fag talk. Did he then faint or ‘swoon’?

Kerry and 0bama can’t even agree on what to call this thing;
a war? An extreme conflict? ‘Same song, second verse’? An unfortunate series of events?
You would think with both of them being homosexuals they could have a tete a tete sister-talk every now and then.


35 posted on 09/13/2014 12:31:41 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: plain talk

Yeah I am fairly sure the one deserter they did negotiate for probably drove the price way up for both the American journalists...


36 posted on 09/13/2014 12:45:30 AM PDT by AzNASCARfan
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To: plain talk

Obama’s “rebels” sold the reporter to Obama’s
“sons” IS.

Like the MANPADs at Benghazi, the corrupt treasonous
State Dept would do ANYTHING to make certain the
“rebels” and IS win. ANYTHING.


37 posted on 09/13/2014 3:32:39 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: plain talk
Now that the parents have embarrassed the Regime, the thought police in the form of the IRS and others will be looking into their collection of funds and their personal returns to assure that correct thinking is resumed.
38 posted on 09/13/2014 3:44:01 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: DanielRedfoot
Marie Harf isn’t qualified to man the complaints department of the lemonaid stand that Obama isn’t qualified to run

You've got that right.

39 posted on 09/13/2014 4:44:12 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: plain talk
Examining this issue purely on the facts, I would say the State Department was right, however I am going to enjoy the grief the administration gets just from the point of view of schandefreude. You see this is the type of thing that W would have been savaged over. The media would always use the emotional angle to beat Bush over the head with, the facts of the case be damned. They would always find a grieving family to attack him over, nevermind the culprits were the Islamic savages. Though my head says we should never negotiate or pay ransom to terrorists, I will sit back and enjoy the pay back.
40 posted on 09/13/2014 4:48:39 AM PDT by gusty
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