Posted on 06/17/2017 2:34:51 PM PDT by wtd
In this May 25, 2017 file photo, Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) speaks during a House Foreign Affairs Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats Subcommittee hearing. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Two top lawmakers have accused Pakistan of supporting terrorism and urged the Trump administration to cut military aid to the country, saying the US should make it more difficult for Islamabad to get its hands on American weapons.
During a Congressional hearing this week, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and Ted Poe, alleged that Pakistan is engaged in terrorism and asserted that the US needs to cut its military assistance to it.
We need to go on the record here, on this part of our government, to say that were not going to be providing weapons to countries like Pakistan that were afraid will shoot down our own people and afraid we know theyre engaged in terrorism, Mr. Rohrabacher said during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-proliferation and Trade hearing on Foreign Military Sales.
We know what theyve done now. They still hold Dr. Afridi (who helped locate Osama bin Laden)...in a dungeon, he said.
We should be facilitating our support and our weapons systems to countries like Egypt that are fighting this threat to Western civilisation, to all of civilisation. And we should make it more difficult not less difficult for countries like Pakistan to get their hands on American weapons, Mr. Rohrabacher asserted.
Congressman Ted Poe, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Non-proliferation and Trade, said that the US is having the issue with Pakistan whether theyre loyal or playing us for years on the issue of aid to Pakistan and sales to Pakistan.
We were concerned about the Pakistanis scrambling F-16s that we made and sold to the Pakistanis so that they wouldnt shoot down Americans who were doing the job of taking out this terrorist. I personally think Pakistan plays the United States because they turn to China if we dont help them, Mr. Poe said.
I understand all that. They have nuclear weapons and we want to have a relationship with them so that they dont look to China. I get all that. But are we doing anything different on sales to Pakistan to make sure those sales of whatever it is arent used against us directly or used against us indirectly because of the military helping the Taliban in Afghanistan where were have our troops and those weapons could be used against the United States? he asked.
Are we doing anything different to make sure that doesnt happen or are we still using the same formula, Mr. Poe questioned.
Tina Kaidanow, Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Political-Military Affairs, told lawmakers that with Pakistan the United States has a robust end use monitoring programme, to ensure that the items that it provides to them are used appropriately and within the boundaries of what the US has asked them to accomplish.
We regard Pakistan as an important partner on counter-terrorism issues. They will be essential in bringing the Afghan Taliban to the table for peace talks. There are a number of things where we need their cooperation and their assistance, Mr. Kaidanow said.
We do want to help them on the counter-terrorism front.
But on the other hand, again, we have very big concerns that we continuously front with them on support for Haqqani, on support for other things. This has been made clear to the Pakistani government at the highest levels, the senior State Department official said.
"Since 2002, U.S. aid to Pakistan (both economic-related assistance and security-related assistance) has averaged roughly $2 billion per year. That figure is impressive; by way of context, it bears noting that over the last two decades, Pakistan's annual defense budget has averaged around $5 billion."
Now, consider the various Awan Brother's (auto,drug,human trafficking, organ trafficking, real estate, etc.) rat lines exposed by George Webb - all of which was and continues to be enabled by our elected officials.
Pakistan was hiding Bin Laden, can’t get much more terror supporting than that.
The Pakistan govt apparently considers Imran very important b/c of his representations about his political power in the US. Imran travels in Pakistan with a VIP police escort.
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This could be very easy to unravel. Pres Trump, AG Sessions, and Rex Tillerson need to call in the Pakistani Ambassador for a "little chat." The Pakistani Ambassador surely knows what important issus Imran is "advising" Cong Debbie about.
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(HAT TIP BOOKSHELF) Heres how to handle it:
<><> About half of House Republicans have signed a letter urging we cut off all aid to Pakistan. They consider it a terrorist-sponsoring nation.
<><> T-Rex calls in the Paki Ambassador, and speaking privately. gives him one week to show up with Wasserman-Schultzs Haki/Pakis.
<><> Either that or State will support adding Pak to terrorist list.
<><> When the Haki/Pakis appear in his office (as they surely would), T-Rex turns them over to Justice (not the FBI).
<><>Attny Gen then oversees the case and the FBI is given a time certain to provide evidence so they can't Mafia it out.
Pakistan hates us and wants to destroy us.
INVESTIGATE THIS -—Dumb Debbie Vasserman Schultz seems to have stepped in it bigtime.
<><> DNC Debbie single-handedly aided and abetted the Awan clan’s massive breach of US security on Capitol Hilln....in more ways than one.
<><> Significantly DNC Debbie facilitated the clan getting security clearances. Never did it enter stupid Debbie’s braindead mind that Muslim Pakistani nationals were more than office help?
<><>At the DNC, Schultz masterminded the clan’s remuneration package——making sure they got paid handsomely-—pocketing some 5 million tax dollars as they toiled to undermine Americans’ safety and security.
<><> The clan’s grotesque compensation package under Schultz’s DNC leadership is certainly suspicious. Might involve wire-transfer fraud, mail fraud, theft, kickbacks, money laundering and tax evasion.
<><> Schultz’s former IT staffer is still listed as her advisor.
<><> The Pakistani nationals under scrutiny by Capitol Police have since fled the country.
<><> More egregiously, the Pakistanis’ ability to get State Dept visas while under criminal scrutiny is a subject of speculation.....and may involve then-Secy Hillary Clinton and then-Pres Obama.
The Muslim Imran (pictured here) seemed to be friendly w/ the Clintons.
It's very odd to see a lowly Capitol Hill staffer get that close to a bigshot Clinton.
<><> Did the brothers share Democrats' Capitol Hill data w/ the Clintons?
<><> Did the Clintons order data coming into the DNC computers?
It’s beyond the pale we’ve been supporting them all these years.
And then, wink and nod that if pokeeston suddenly didn't exist, it was no skin off our ass....we can get cab drivers from elsewhere.
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