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According to the left-wing publication Politico, The Obama administration apparently obstructed the Justice Dept's years-long program to investigate and halt a major drugrunning operation into the Unites States by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. This was to keep Iran happy while the negotiations for the nuclear deal with that country were under way.
The number of laws (domestic and international) the U.S. government had to violate to do this, is staggering.
The secretbackstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
An ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah'sbillion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House's desirefor a nuclear deal with Iran.
By Josh Meyer
In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaineinto the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollahhad transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking,money laundering and other criminal activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
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But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.
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“This was a policy decision, it was a systematicdecision,” said David Asher, who helped establish and oversee Project Cassandra as a Defense Department illicit finance analyst. “They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down.”
Lebanese arms dealer Ali Fayad, a suspected topHezbollah operative whom agents believed reported to Russian President VladimirPutin as a key supplier of weapons to Syria and Iraq, was arrested in Prague inthe spring of 2014. But for the nearly two years Fayad was in custody, topObama administration officials declined to apply serious pressure on the Czechgovernment to extradite him to the United States, even as Putin was lobbyingaggressively against it.
Fayad, who had been indicted in U.S. courts on charges of planning the murders of U.S. government employees, attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization and attempting to acquire, transfer and use anti-aircraft missiles, was ultimately sent to Beirut. He is now believed by U.S. officials to be back in business, and helping to arm militants in Syria and elsewhere with Russian heavy weapons.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions just announced that the DOJ will look into this issue.
From what I've heard, it shouldn't be hard for them to find information. It was DOJ agents who were getting obstructed, slowed down, and their efforts shut down. Of course, they will have to ask various Obama administration officials WHY all this obstructing and ignoring was done. And liberal fanatics such as these, are experts at giving misleading answers, "forgetting" various facts and events, etc.
Sessions orders DOJ review after report Obama administration gave Hezbollah a pass
By Alex Pappas, Jake Gibson
EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Jeff Sessions is launching a review of a law enforcement initiative called Project Cassandra after an investigative report was published this week claiming the Obama administration gave a free pass to Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations to help ensure the Iran nuclear deal would stay on track.
The Justice Department said in a statement to Fox News that Sessions on Friday directed a review of prior Drug Enforcement Administration investigations “to evaluate allegations that certain matters were not properly prosecuted and to ensure all matters are appropriately handled.”
“While I am hopeful that there were no barriers constructed by the last administration to allowing DEA agents to fully bring all appropriate cases under Project Cassandra, this is a significant issue for the protection of Americans,” Sessions said in a written statement. “We will review these matters and give full support to investigations of violent drug trafficking organizations.”
"We will review these matters and give full support to investigations of violent drug trafficking organizations"
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions
But when Project Cassandra leaders, who were working out of a DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, Obama Justice and Treasury Department officials delayed, hindered or rejected their requests, according to Politico.
The Obama admin. was crazy town but it was also the most corrupt in modern history. He was working to give cover to a terrorist organization so he could work with another terrorist organization. All for his ego and legacy. A legacy now of lies and deceit and corruption. The postage stamp President exposed.
How odd. This is a scandal dwarfing anything that was ever done in the Watergate affair. Yet the usual leftist hysterics, in and out of the media, are staying away from it like the plague.
I wonder why? Does the President who was behind these hijinks have the wrong letter after his name this time?
I thought the Democrats felt there was noting more important than what they were talking about in Watergate.
Now we are beginning to see that there is something more important: Whether the person doing it is a (D) or an (R).
I have a very hard time believing the US would ever seek to halt or even drastically reduce the flow of illegal drugs into this country. That would be too much of an economic disaster. They need a consistent supply of drugs coming in order to continually justify the funding to fight the war against it.
I have a very hard time believing the US would ever seek to halt or even drastically reduce the flow of illegal drugs into this country. That would be too much of an economic disaster. They need a consistent supply of drugs coming in order to continually justify the funding to fight the war against it.
The drugs were going OUT of the US and into Africa. It was being shipped in destroyed cars packed into shipping containers. Hezbollah was then shipping the drugs to other destinations and using the cash to buy weapons to fund terrorism.
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The drugs were going OUT of the US and into Africa. It was being shipped in destroyed cars packed into shipping containers. Hezbollah was then shipping the drugs to other destinations and using the cash to buy weapons to fund terrorism.
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