I urge the press and Congress to excavate that correspondence. I challenge former senior Obama officials — Susan Rice, John Brennan, John Kerry, Ash Carter and President Obama himself — to divulge all they know about the Soleimani messages and agree to have them declassified.
And I also challenge those former officials to divulge all they know about — and to declassify — presidential correspondence w/ Khamenei & Rouhani. Now that the public has a better understanding of who Qassem Soleimani was, it has a right to understand the messages in context.
If Trump’s conversation with Zelensky was in need of a public airing, then surely we are justified in seeing the messages to Soleimani. Obama officials, we know, have nothing to hide. They say they’re proud of their Iran “containment” policy, so why would they pose any obstacle?
It’s my patriotic duty to be a whistleblower. Feel free to thank me for my service. But please don’t reveal my identity. I must remain anonymous. I didn’t want to play this role, but history & destiny compelled me to stand & be counted. That, and my desire for a good laugh.
Here’s the key passage from Kerry’s oped that reveals the mindset that generated the correspondence. Team Obama believed Iran & its proxies were allies against ISIS. But 1) Soleimani was building those proxies to throw us out of Iraq. 2) Those proxies are vicious sectarian actors
that murdered innocent Sunnis with abandon. They created the vacuum in Iraqi Sunni communities into which ISIS moved.
Is it hard to believe that the administration reached out to Soleimani in the same spirit that Obama reached out to Khamenei? |
Obama Wrote Secret Letter to Iran’s Khamenei About Fighting Islamic State
The president has written to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to lay out shared U.S.-Iranian interests in combating insurgents, and to spur progress on nuclear talks.
Here’s a sample of the sweet nothings Obama whispered in the Ayatollah’s ear |
David Shor
@DYShor
NEWS: NSA Bolton reveals some of the text of the October 2014 letter that @BarackObama penned to @khamenei_ir
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