Posted on 05/15/2018 8:39:34 AM PDT by GreyFriar
He hasn’t changed a lick in 47 years.
I’ve been asked a number of times about John Kerry’s unauthorized actions with Iran compared to Ted Kennedy’s unauthorized actions with the Kremlin. Kerry, this spring 2018, sought to undermine President Trump’s policies, whereas Kennedy, spring 1983, sought to undermine President Reagan’s policies.
Many people — including the president of the United States — want to know if Kerry’s actions constitute a violation of the Logan Act. It’s a question I’m frequently asked about Kennedy. The short answer, in both cases, is that I’m not the source to provide the answer. Congress is. The Democratic Congress in the 1980s didn’t hesitate to launch criminal proceedings against President Ronald Reagan and his staff (many of them fine men of great integrity) in a militant pursuit for impeachment over “Iran-Contra.” Liberal Democrats did so while turning a blind eye as their leader — House Speaker Jim Wright — buddied up to Sandinista dictator Daniel Ortega in his own negotiations.
And Wright wasn’t secretary of state, just as John Kerry wasn’t secretary of state when he conferred with Iranian officials in secret meetings in New York. In what the Boston Globe described as a “rare move” of “unusual shadow diplomacy,” Kerry met with the Iranian foreign minister (among other high-level foreign officials) “to discuss ways of preserving the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It was the second time in about two months that the two had met to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration, according to a person briefed on the meetings.”
That’s the very deal that President Trump was working to cancel just as Kerry was working to save it.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Ping
Forget Logan, which has never used. It’s treason. We cannot let this one go by.
Should have been done in ‘71.
John Kerry evolved from a young leftist to an old leftist.
Wasn’t Kerry on a PT Boat on the Tigris River on the Christmas of 1996? Or was that Al Gore?
I’ll admit, it’s hard to keep these two people’s sterling military records straight.
John Kerry evolved from a young leftist to an old leftist.
Yes, and he also evolved from a young lying treasonous bastard to an old lying treasonous bastard.
J. Kerry ping.
Did I mention that Effin was in Viet Nam?
This is a good article. Thanks for posting it.
How Heinz and Kerry ever got lined up defies the imagination. She sure must have been hard up to advance her social standing. Amazing.....
No, it is not. Treason has a very definition that is strictly limited by the Constitution. We are not at war with Iran, as so Iran is not our “enemy” under Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution.
If this was treason, then the Adams Administration almost certainly would have had George Logan prosecuted for treason. And, unlike Iran today, we were in a shooting war with France at the time. Instead, the Federalists in the 5th Congress, who I suspect had a pretty good idea of what the Constitution meant, felt the need to pass a law to make it illegal, hence the Logan Act.
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