Posted on 12/25/2014 6:21:36 AM PST by Din Maker
Up until last week, it looked like Gerardo Hernandez would spend the rest of his life behind bars. Part of a spy cabal known as the “Cuban Five,” Hernandez had been in federal prison since 1998, serving out two consecutive life sentences for espionage.
But in a prisoner exchange to free detained American contractor Alan Gross, Hernandez and two other members of the “Cuban Five” were released. At a public homecoming event, Hernandez was seen rubbing his wife Adriana Perez’s pregnant belly. He returned home just in time for the birth of their child, who they’d conceived long distance with the help of U.S. officials.
Sen. Patrick Leahy’s office confirmed Monday that the Democrat from Vermont had brokered the binational artificial insemination. In February of last year, Perez had heard that Leahy, who’d long been working to repair U.S.-Cuban relations, would be travelling to Havana with his wife, Marcelle. Perez asked for a meeting.
“She was probably 42 or 43 and she had no expectation her husband was ever getting out prison — he was serving two consecutive life sentences — and she was desperate to have a child,” Leahy aide Tim Rieser told NBC News. “Senator Leahy and Marcelle Leahy are parents and grandparents, and they sympathized with her on a human level and they wanted to help her, and they did it for her.”
With the help of State Department and Bureau of Prisons officials who, Rieser said, “understood that the Senator’s purpose was purely humanitarian” and “were also asking the Cubans to do things that would help improve the conditions of Alan Gross,” Leahy arranged to have Hernandez’s sperm flown from the U.S. to Cuba. That's where Perez would undergo the insemination procedure, paid for by the Cubans. Following one failed attempt, Perez became pregnant.
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I agree!
And they had to try twice...that must have cost a fortune.
Mr. Leaky Leahy should submit to a DNA paternity test to verify that he didn’t engage in any hanky panky with the seed.
Request in writing a summary of the expenses from Leahy’s office.
” I think ALL expenses involved should come out of Senator Leahy’s pocket. “
Agree !
A government of idiots for idiots.
Diversity in action.
So I assume that Senator Leahy and his sweet humanitarian wife paid for all this out of their pocket.
Remember it was Leahy who chaired the SR501 to vet McCain. The entire committee which including Hillary and the usurper agreed eligibility required TWO US CITIZEN PARENTS and BORN ON US SOIL. Funny how the usurper never had to be vetted by congress and Nancy had to play fast and dirty to get him on the ballot in Hawaii.
Meanwhile,no help returning cop killers, airline hijack ransom money or seized property. A great deal for Cuba, our President is sure a great negotiator. All of our enemies get everything they want with him at the table.
What is with the left’s obsession with brokering children to communists? Thinking just now of Elian Gonzalez.
Doesn’t Gerardo Hernandez know that’s what friends are for it works in California.
I wish O’Reilly, Hannity, Mark Levin or someone would get hold of this and expose it.
ANSWER Found !
Stalag 17 “Triz’ Trzcinski: [after reading letter from home] I believe it. My wife says, “Darling, you won’t believe it, but I found the most adorable baby on our doorstep and I’ve decided to keep it for our very own. Now you won’t believe it, but it’s got exactly my eyes and nose.” Why does she keep saying I won’t believe it? I believe it! I believe it.
-—http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/quotes
I heard on the Joe Pags radio show that not only were there two attempts at this but there were two flights to accomplish that. Can anyone confirm?
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