Posted on 04/24/2017 5:26:50 PM PDT by Art in Idaho
When President Barack Obama announced the “one-time gesture” of releasing Iranian-born prisoners who “were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses” last year, his administration presented the move as a modest trade-off for the greater good of the Iran nuclear agreement and Tehran’s pledge to free five Americans.
“Iran had a significantly higher number of individuals, of course, at the beginning of this negotiation that they would have liked to have seen released,” one senior Obama administration official told reporters in a background briefing arranged by the White House, adding that “we were able to winnow that down to these seven individuals, six of whom are Iranian-Americans.”
But Obama, the senior official and other administration representatives weren’t telling the whole story on Jan. 17, 2016, in their highly choreographed rollout of the prisoner swap and simultaneous implementation of the six-party nuclear deal, according to a POLITICO investigation.
In his Sunday morning address to the American people, Obama portrayed the seven men he freed as “civilians.” The senior official described them as businessmen convicted of or awaiting trial for mere “sanctions-related offenses, violations of the trade embargo.”
In reality, some of them were accused by Obama’s own Justice Department of posing threats to national security. Three allegedly were part of an illegal procurement network supplying Iran with U.S.-made microelectronics with applications in surface-to-air and cruise missiles like the kind Tehran test-fired recently, prompting a still-escalating exchange of threats with the Trump administration. Another was serving an eight-year sentence for conspiring to supply Iran with satellite technology and hardware. As part of the deal, U.S. officials even dropped their demand for $10 million that a jury said the aerospace engineer illegally received from Tehran.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
You will not believe this article. I know it's Politico but it's well researched and in depth.
What Obama did was straight out treason. He did everything he could to insure that Iran will indeed get a nuclear weapon. He released people in custody or being investigated as part of the Iran deal. I actually had a hard time getting through this.
As others have said, why wasn't Obama arrested when he landed? The topper is I just read he's going to get a cool $400,000 for a luncheon speech next September. Hopefully Jeff Sessions and the justice department will have something to say about his sedition and treason before then.
Grab a cup of coffee and try and get relaxed before you read this. Obama colluded with the Iranians, pure and simple. Iran got tons of money, prisoners released and Obama helped Iran get technologies to help build nuclear weapons.
Just damn disgusting and unbelievable. Is he going to be allowed to prance around with that dumb-ass smile and continue to walk free? We the People cannot let this stand.
Obama is a terrorist sympathizer at the least.
. . "That may be true for the seven men granted clemency in the United States, but it certainly wasn’t the case for the 14 fugitives."
“These were people under active investigation, who we wanted very badly because they were operating at such a high level that they could help us begin to find out what was happening inside the black box of how Iran’s procurement networks really operate,” said Aaron Arnold, a former intelligence analyst at CPC2, the FBI’s special Counterproliferation Center unit dedicated to thwarting Iranian nuclear and weapons smuggling. “Without that kind of strategic insight, it leaves our analysts, but more importantly, our policy-makers just guessing at what Iran is up to and how to stop it.”
"Fifteen months later, the fallout from the nuclear deal and prisoner swap — and questions about the events leading up to them — continue to reverberate through the Justice Department and the specialized units at the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Commerce Department created to neutralize the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear and military ambitions."
"The National Counterproliferation Initiative, created with much fanfare a decade ago, has suffered greatly, many participants said, even as they acknowledged that metrics are hard to come by. Much of the work is done in secret, and in long-range efforts that can’t be publicly disclosed, much less measured in annual arrest or conviction statistics."
"But key enforcement efforts are in limbo as the result of stalled or stymied investigations and prosecutions, and the trail of some high-value targets has gone cold, numerous participants said."
Guilty as hell and free as bird
Obama doesn’t work, this was Valerie’s job and Zero just gave her cover like he did all the other traitorous acts.
That’s the true legacy of the criminal in chief.
So. When are we gonna get out there and protest where Obama’s speaking. Sit in front of his house behind that great Wall he put up and bang pots and pans and sing Kumbaya.
“What Obama did was straight out treason.”
Count #1078.
The opposition party in congress allowed all of this to go on for 6 years. They are all unindicted co-conspirators to his TREASON.
Yup, until Jeff Sessions investigates this further.
A new report reveals Obama misled the public about a quiet giveaway to Iran
His prison swap was a bigger gift to Iran than he ever let on.
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/4/24/15407078/obama-iran-prison-swap
PING!!!
Article and comments, esp #1
The depth of sedition and treason from Obama just keeps growing.....Grab a cup of coffee and try and get relaxed before you read this. Obama colluded with the Iranians, pure and simple. Iran got tons of money, prisoners released and Obama helped Iran get technologies to help build nuclear weapons.
Thanks, Art in Idaho
Ping for later.
Marking is hitting the ball out of the park with this.
Art in Idaho,
Have you sent this to President Trump’s website?
Ping to LS.
I just sent an email to the President and whitehouse.gov
Obama and the rest of the swamp. Is it pitchfork time? And what about Hillary?
Sessions on Hannity, when asked about Hillary, said he couldn't comment on whether there was an investigation ongoing or not, 'it just creates problems' he said. I got the feeling that they still are investigating Hillary and the Foundation.
Other important paragraphs from the article:
"Indeed, in the eyes of Obama’s own Justice Department, many of them were engaged in activities that were directly at odds with the administration’s concerns about Iran’s weapons programs:
Three allegedly were part of an illegal procurement network supplying Iran with U.S.-made microelectronics with applications in surface-to-air and cruise missiles like the kind Tehran test-fired recently, prompting a still-escalating exchange of threats with the Trump administration. Another was serving an eight-year sentence for conspiring to supply Iran with satellite technology and hardware. As part of the deal, U.S. officials even dropped their demand for $10 million that a jury said the aerospace engineer illegally received from Tehran."
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