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Surprise: MSM Ignoring Another Obama Scandal?
Townhall.com ^ | December 25, 2017 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 12/25/2017 7:58:47 AM PST by Kaslin

The media seems curiously uninterested in the latest Obama administration bombshell. This past week, Politico published a report that President Obama helped derail an investigation into a drug trafficking ring waged by Hezbollah in order to protect his nuclear deal with Iran. The effort, entitled Project Cassandra, began in 2008 following evidence from the Drug Enforcement Administration. Investigators went under cover to track the alleged drug and weapons trafficking but were slowed by White House officials who were dragging their feet. In their pursuit to ease tensions with Iran, the Obama administration "let Hezbollah off the hook."

Politico's reporting was both shocking and intriguing, but their contemporaries and mainstream broadcast networks have not exactly jumped on the story.

In the days since it was first published, the New York Times has treated it as a non-story. The Washington Post’s sole article on it consisted of a blog post, by one of its liberal opinion writers, devoted to quotes from Obama-administration alumni dismissing both Meyer and his sources as neoconservative propaganda without actually refuting any of the story’s main points. The broadcast channels and the liberal news channels have similarly avoided the scandal. (National Review)

White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said the blackout proves the media is still "soft on Obama."

The MSM was, is, and always has been soft on Obama. And then they deny they’re biased. https://t.co/mMwKsC2M9j— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 23, 2017

Congress certainly hasn't ignored the scandal. Rep. Ron DeSantis's (R-FL)'s National Security Subcommittee is in the process of sending letters to government agencies demanding answers as to how and why the Obama White House disrupted the anti-Hezbollah effort.

The Justice Department wants to get to the bottom of it too.

Attorney General Sessions Reiterates Support of DEA Efforts to Investigate Hezbollah's Drug Trafficking and Related Activities and Orders Review of Prior DEA Investigations https://t.co/QlZxKV0yhh— Justice Department (@TheJusticeDept) December 22, 2017

Judging by the media's underreporting of the Fast and Furious scandal under Obama's DOJ, it perhaps should be no surprise that there have been a paltry amount of headlines for the Hezbollah drug trafficking cover up.


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KEYWORDS: barackhussein0bama; drugs; irandeal; media; worstpresidentever

1 posted on 12/25/2017 7:58:47 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Ignoring? Not at all.

They are doing their best to cover it up.


2 posted on 12/25/2017 8:01:27 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: All
THIS JUST IN---The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
(and looked the other way as criminal activities were financed by employing used car schemes)

Politico ^ | December 15, 2011 | Josh Meyer / FR Posted by Rabin

PART I----A GLOBAL THREAT EMERGES How Hezbollah turned to trafficking cocaine and and laundering money thru used cars to finance its expansion (and the story of Obama's complicity) .

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BACKSTORY The Awans carefully planned their treasonous schemes. They infiltrated Virginia L/E.....had House Democrats under their thumb.....and took in millions of tax dollars all at the same time. With Usman E. Rafi (referenced below), their confederate in L/E, the Awans car scams hummed along smoothly.

(HAT TIP LUKE ROSIAK) Abid Awan was "managing partner" of the car dealership at the same time he was cashing US govt checks---as a US govt employee earning $160,000 handling IT for House Democrats. Abid would frequently simply go across the street to long-standing dealership called AAA Motors and get cars.

AAA's owner Nasir Khattak told a court: “If AAA (lends) a car to CIA, it was simply take the AAA car across the street to CIA and sell it, and maybe give the profit back.....or not. There was no documentation....you will not be able to make any sense out of them because there were dozens and dozens, of cars transferred between the two dealerships and between other people.”

“All of those transactions was to support Cars International A using AAA Motors,” he testified. “That’s why I did not make any money from my AAA dealership because my resources were supporting Awans' Cars International A.” Khattak did not explain to the court, or to the press, why he would ruin his own existing business to help the Awans.

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REFERENCE---A Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office Deputy --- Deputy First Class (DFC) Usman E. Rafi, 37 --- was charged with two Felony counts of using computer to gather identifying information (VCIN violation), thirty counts of dealer violations (misdemeanor) and thirty counts of open title violations (misdemeanor). (hat tip 2 dreamin)

Rafi turned himself in. He was released on an unsecured bond. L/E found that between May, 2014 to November, 2016, the deputy used his official position to obtain information for the sale and resale of used vehicles. Further, the deputy used his access to the Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN) to assist with the transactions.

DFC Rafi is a ten year veteran of the department.

NOTE WELL: Right about the time the Awans were hired by Debbie Wasserman Schultz to IT House Democrats.

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ANALYSIS: AAA Cars' Khattak was a confederate---in cahoots with the Awans' CIA Cars.....the AAA dealership was part of the scam. The Awans apparently screwed him which is why he went to court.

Khattak told the court only Imran Awan knew what became of the money. “It was Imram who was running the business in full control,” he said.

NOTE: Abid Awan of CIA Cars has hired a lawyer specializing in money-laundering cases.

3 posted on 12/25/2017 8:02:54 AM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: BenLurkin

They sure are.


4 posted on 12/25/2017 8:03:58 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: Liz

Great find.


5 posted on 12/25/2017 8:05:04 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: Kaslin

The media’s non coverage of major stories is the biggest form of fake news.


6 posted on 12/25/2017 8:05:42 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Kaslin

Amazing how disparate news items tell the ENTIRE sordid story....to date.


7 posted on 12/25/2017 8:06:47 AM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

MSM will only print Scandals involving Rubs not about a Sainted RAT.


8 posted on 12/25/2017 8:06:51 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: All
PROJECT CASSANDRA


9 posted on 12/25/2017 8:16:08 AM PST by Liz (One side in this conflict has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesnt know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama = Low Life America Hater from head to toe!!! Belongs locked up in jail as a traitor & turncoat!!! Worst abuser, along with the CBC of his own African-American race!!! Sad!!! Too bad, Black Americans have nary a clue!!!


10 posted on 12/25/2017 8:16:12 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Kaslin

It’s like the loose end of a sweater, pull it and the whole thing unravels.

The entire Kenyanesian Usurpation was one big criminal enterprise.


11 posted on 12/25/2017 8:22:34 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BenLurkin

They all know about his muslim faith and his membership in the Choom gang...


12 posted on 12/25/2017 8:23:57 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Kaslin

“Rep. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL)’s National Security Subcommittee is in the process of sending letters to government agencies demanding answers”

Results:
* Agencies will demand and be granted years to gather info.
* The answers won’t come.
* Congress will hold them in Contempt.
* Media will call it “Old news”
* Bureaucrats will retire with full pension.
* The End and CASE CLOSED.


13 posted on 12/25/2017 8:33:43 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Kaslin

How can you expect them to report on this little thing at a time when it’s revealed that Trump drinks a multiple cans of Diet Coke every day?!

Priorities, people!!!


14 posted on 12/25/2017 8:34:53 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
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To: DJ Frisat

Yeah obviously that is more important to the Fake News media


15 posted on 12/25/2017 8:53:33 AM PST by Kaslin (Quid est Veritas?: What Is Truth?)
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To: Kaslin

There is such thing as an Obama scandal according to the MSM...

Get with the program...


16 posted on 12/25/2017 8:54:43 AM PST by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: Popman

Make that no such thing


17 posted on 12/25/2017 8:56:29 AM PST by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: Kaslin

The mulatto Obamatollah is their Supreme Being.


18 posted on 12/25/2017 9:00:13 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand, Divided We Fall. Remember That Diversity Is The Opposite Of Unity.)
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To: Kaslin

The media is the enemy of the citizens of this nation.


19 posted on 12/25/2017 9:22:13 AM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: Kaslin
Attorney General Sessions Reiterates Support of DEA Efforts to Investigate Hezbollah's Drug Trafficking and Related Activities and Orders Review of Prior DEA Investigations https://t.co/QlZxKV0yhh— Justice Department (@TheJusticeDept) December 22, 2017

When Sessions isn't recused, he apparently takes action.

20 posted on 12/25/2017 9:37:10 AM PST by FreeReign
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