The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

In Order to Seal Iran Deal, Obama Administration Shut Down Efforts to Stop Hezballah Drug Trafficking

Hezballah is an Iranian proxy army fighting in Lebanon. Not only are they terrorists, they're a criminal drug gang funding terrorism by smuggling cocaine to the US.

So of course Obama had to derail the investigation into them.

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 cocaine into 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 Hezbollah had 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.

They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.

They followed cocaine shipments, tracked a river of dirty cash, and traced what they believed to be the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.

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.

You'll have to read the article for the details, but here's an exit quote:

"This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision," 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."

 

Politico: Obama Let Hezbollah Run Cocaine Into The US For Iran Deal.

Before Barack Obama decided to pursue the nuclear deal with Iran, the DEA had a major operation called Project Cassandra. This operation had identified Hezbollah as a major supplier of cocaine to the US and other countries, along with its usual terrorist activities on behalf of its sponsors in Tehran. The DEA and FBI had built criminal cases against major players in Hezbollah’s drug and arms networks, succeeding in getting sealed indictments and finding witnesses for prosecution.

And then the Obama administration stepped in to drain it of all resources, just to protect its deal with Iran:

One Obama-era Treasury official, Katherine Bauer, in little-noticed written testimony presented last February to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, acknowledged that “under the Obama administration … these Hezbollah-related investigations were tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.”

As a result, some Hezbollah operatives were not pursued via arrests, indictments, or Treasury designations that would have blocked their access to U.S. financial markets, according to Bauer, a career Treasury official, who served briefly in its Office of Terrorist Financing as a senior policy adviser for Iran before leaving in late 2015. And other “Hezbollah facilitators” arrested in France, Colombia, Lithuania have not been extradited — or indicted — in the U.S., she wrote. …

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/18/obama-let-hezbollahs-drug-arms-dealers-off-hook-iran/

 

Please rush your evidence to the FBI so justice can be served.

 

Collusion: Obama Let Hezbollah Terrorists Off The Hook For Iran Deal.

 

No.

Desperation on the part of Trump-lickers.

 

Of course he did. Selling out to terrorism is what he did best whether it be to Hezbollah or letting terrorists go to get back a traitor you can always count on good old Obama to sell America out.

 

obama didn't hide his love of arab terrorists. He shouted it from the rooftops.

 

Tell that to Osama bin Laden and a few of his buddies.

 

I don't remember that. Got an example? Just one example of him shouting his love of arab terrorsts from the rooftops?

 

And he directly gave the orders, the blood was directly on his hands.

 

As I already posted in another thread. This story is nonsense...started by a guy who works for a known neo con, far right, anti-Iran, pro-Israel think tank.

http://politicalforum.com/index.php...rings-to-appease-iran.521531/#post-1068413775

 

Yes because that totally makes up for capitulation to terrorists. How many times did it take before he finally agreed to take Osama out?

 

So you can't disprove it. what a shocker

 

Zorro's blather and Trump disinformation does not constitute evidence.

 

1) It is almost impossible to prove a negative (that something did not ever happen). I think I heard that first in grade school. Why can you Trumpbots not seem to grasp this INCREDIBLY simple premise?
Here is an example (this is fictional): your father had sex with pigs.
Okay,...now prove he never had sex with pigs?
You see? You cannot do it...because you cannot account for your father's whereabouts for his entire life.
IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PROVE A NEGATIVE...GOT IT?

2) I did not make the claim...YOU POSTED IT. So it is up to YOU to provide evidence from an UNBIASED and CREDIBLE source to back up your post. You have NOT done that.
AND - as I showed - your source is STAGGERINGLY biased.

Your source works for an INCREDIBLY biased think tank that is anti-Iranian/Hezbollah and pro-Israeli. So your story is based on nonsense.

Find a source that is respected and UNBIASED or NO ONE with an open mind will remotely take your silly story from a silly source, seriously.

We are done here...for now.

Good day.

 

Sounds like a deep state plot to sabotage the Iran deal

 

Don't know. I do know that Bush pretty much wrote Osama bin Laden off as not even being important after a while.

 

LOL...your blunt unsupported opinion files in the face of the facts. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/24/obama-iran-nuclear-deal-prisoner-release-236966
It just once more points out the essentially dishonest nature of Obama and his regime, especially when it comes to helping the rogue state of Iran gain nuclear weapons.
I guess there is nothing though that your won't cover for when it comes to president Barry, though.

 

Oh another corrupt agency that has been covering up for all of the blatant corruption by Barry and the witch, her husband, that agency?

 

Stopping Barry’s arming of Iran’s nuke deal is only a good thing and only a lib couldn’t see something so obvious. Hell, Ray Charles could see this but he’s only dead not corrupt so...

 

I read some of this last night. I don't know how much truth there is to it, but if it is true there should be an investigation.

 

Are you also concerned with criminal drug smuggling in Syria and Lebanon?

 

Katherine Bauer testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
https://www.documentcloud.org/docum...e-Bauer-testimony-to-the-House-Committee.html

 

Well, this should end the debate right here:

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

/sarcasm

 

Yes Politico is well known to be Trump-lickers
Is this all you liberal have left? has this what your argument has been reduced too? that anything that doesn't bash Trump or makes Obama look bad has to be part of the right wing conspiracy