Posted on 09/12/2014 6:15:02 PM PDT by Nachum
The parents of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff were told by a White House counterterrorism official at a meeting last May that they could face criminal prosecution if they paid ransom to try to free their son, a spokesman for the family told Yahoo News Friday night.
"The family felt completely and utterly helpless when they heard this," said Barak Barfi, a friend of Sotloff who is serving as a spokesman for his family. "The Sotloffs felt there was nothing they could do to get Steve out."
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Ransom for Bergdahl good ---- Ransom for Jewish Journalist bad.
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Only the government is allowed to pay ransom.
Its the only way they can be sure the right terrorists get the money.
Bump
Obama engaging in a profound racial hatred of the American people
I corrected it for you.
Oh, I can think of a few things ... and I think Claire Wolfe agrees with me.
I would have dared them to prosecute.
I don’t like the idea of a ransom being paid but I certainly wouldn’t stand in the way of a family doing so.
Agreed.
well shoot - that’s an easy decision. pay the dang ransom to get your son back. Screw the government.
And they might just prosecute you. They don’t like to be defied and the matter of “optics” always seems to occur to them after the deed is done.
And then there is the other consideration. Sotloff was a Jew and they did not want this one to get away alive when all they had to do was wait and he would be killed. Yeah, Obama is like Eichmann.
So trading 5 murderers for known traitor and all around A-hole is more appropriate and fully within the law?.
And a Marine vet in a Mexican jail? Not even worth a "mention".
FBHO and all of his followers.
When Barry mentioned in his speech the word ‘dignity’ I wanted to puke on the spot. He and his Dem apparatchiks have ZERO of it.
If anyone doesn’t realize by now that we are being RULED by an anti-American Muslim loving collection of pseudo Marxists then they really are blind or have not been paying attention to anything.
Florida resident news....BEING IGNORED BY THE OBAMA BUTTLICKING MEDIA IN THE STATE!!!
I assume this "kid" was a lib "journalist" anti-Semite like the other one?
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