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The Obama administration allowed the Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah to traffic drugs and launder money, in some cases within the U.S., to secure the July 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

The Obama team deliberately derailed a law enforcement investigation, dubbed Project Cassandra, launched in 2008 by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to target Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s criminal network.

Some 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies were involved in the undercover operation to map Hezbollah’s drug smuggling operations. The investigation tracked Hezbollah-controlled shipments of cocaine from Latin America to West Africa, and through Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S.

As the operation managed to infiltrate the highest levels of the terror group’s hierarchy, the Obama administration created obstacles to hinder the investigation.

“This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision,” David Asher, a veteran illicit finance expert who helped establish and run Project Cassandra, told Politico. “They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down.”

The Obama administration’s move was an effort to “defang, defund and undermine the investigations that were involving Iran and Hezbollah,” Asher said.

A three part story published in Politico details a secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook as an ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah's billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House's desire for a nuclear deal with Iran.


The entire article is here: https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

Politico is a right wing nUT job outlet.

Not fair and balanced?

I might have believed it if it was published by "High Times".

I’d still like to learn more about this. Wrong is wrong. Can’t wait to watch it develop.

So Obama was following Reagan's & Clinton's "Dark Alliance" playbook on how to import cocaine into the US to fund an illegal war???

Let's ask Gary Webb. Oh that's right, he committed suicide with a double-tap to the head.
https://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/index.htm

I thought Obama was Hezbollah? No?

Whom you got in mind, Obama, Trump, Sharpton, Comey, McCabe, Strzok or maybe even Jefferson Davis.

You need to be more specific in order whip up the appropriate support and hate level.

If it's true I do too. Regardless of party we should. It's just too often people wish these things based on party.

Dealing with enemies, unsavory characters, dictators and all-around bad guys has been an enigma between governments since the birth of nations. The measurement of whether we should negotiate deals, openly or covertly, with our enemies is the overall objective and how it would benefit our people. The primary purpose would be national defense and world safety/security. A discredited objective would be personal gain or exploitation of others on behalf of specific private businesses. Other objectives fall within that spectrum.

Reagan was applauded for dealing with Gorbachev and the other Russian leaders. Nixon was given credit for dealing with the Communist Chinese Chairman Mao. History has shown the benefits of their dealings.

Of course not...they were terrorists and he wasn't even President yet...

Delta, I'm not as optimistic as you that Iran is not using the deal to expedite their efforts to nuke up.I personally feel that we will find out sooner than latter the truth behind their efforts.

I'm sure you are correct with the evidence that Iran is a stabilizing and peaceful force in the world.

I'm not defecting at all. Just having fun. I already said if this is true I hope it dooms any of those involved. I don't care R or D. That isn't what drives me on stuff like this. That's why some in here think I'm a D because I won't blindly justify anything R does.

I think this is wrong if true and hope the hammer comes down.

Clear enough?

^ #23

I never said Iran is a stabilizing and peaceful force in the world. I wouldn't trust them, and agree with Trump's assessment of their trustworthiness. But I hope that Trump doesn't pull the plug on the deal. There are so many other nations who are threatened by Iran and who signed on to the deal and are contributing their expertise in watching them. There are times when we need partners, when many countries have aligned interests, and a non-nuclear Iran is near the top of that chart.

here's a recent story in Reuters, considered a neutral/least biased news source:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear/iran-sticks-to-key-limits-of-nuclear-deal-u-n-watchdog-report-idUSKBN1DD1RS

What in your opinion is the benefit of scrapping this deal for Trump (conservative donors)? It seems to have been an objective since the campaign trail.

Someone wiser than me put a phrase to that: Trump Derangement Syndrome #1


and Reagan borrowed an old Russian proverb to describe his SALT deals with the USSR that now fits what we are doing in Iran, "Trust But Verify."

For a minute I thought you were putting Reagan and Obama on equal footing.

the sole 'good' done by Obama cannot be undone ... capping Bin Laden ...

anything other than that should be undone ...

SteveS...he didn't do that. Bush did. OBL was killed when we leveled a mountain range where he was holed up in Tora Bora. It was after this mission that the "fake" videos of him surfaced. Can't kill the gift that keeps on giving...to the Industrial Military Complex!


Instead...that Paki poofter of a mission was a quid pro quo to give up our helicopter stealth technology to the Chinese!