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To: ransomnote

One would THINK there would be a law against this.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/kerry-meeting-iran-salvage-nuke-deal-rogue-diplomacy/

Kerry Meeting With Iran to Salvage Nuke Deal With Rogue Diplomacy

Shadow diplomacy aids Iran’s regional pursuits

BY: Adam Kredo

Former Secretary of State John Kerry disclosed that he has been conducting rogue diplomacy with top Iranian officials to salvage the landmark nuclear deal and push the Islamic Republic to negotiate its contested missile program, according to recent remarks.

Kerry, in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt to promote his new book, said that he has met with Iranian Former Minister Javad Zarif—the former secretary’s onetime negotiating partner—three or four times in recent months behind the Trump administration’s back.

“I think I’ve seen him three or four times,” Kerry said, adding that he has been conducting sensitive diplomacy without the current administration’s authorization. Kerry said he has criticized the current administration in these discussions, chiding it for not pursuing negotiations from Iran, despite the country’s fevered rhetoric about the U.S. president.

Kerry’s comments are in line with previous reporting on his behind-the-scenes attempts to save the nuclear deal and ensure that Iran continues receiving billions in cash windfalls. These payments were brought to a halt by the Trump administration when it abandoned the nuclear agreement and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran that have nearly toppled its economy and sparked a popular revolution.

Kerry said he met Zarif in Norway, Munich, and other international forums.

As Iran continues to plot terror attacks across the globe and transport weapons to regional hotspots in Syria and Yemen, Kerry has tried to help Zarif preserve the nuclear agreement with European nations.

“What I have done is try to elicit from him [Zarif] what Iran might be willing to do to change the dynamic of the Middle East for the better,” Kerry said. “How does one resolve Yemen, what do you do to try and get peace in Syria, those are the things that really are pre-occupying him because those are the impediments to Iran’s ability to convince people its ready to embrace something different.”

Kerry said he has offered blunt talk to Zarif in order to push the regime to accept restrictions on its foreign interventionism.

“I’ve been very blunt to Foreign Minister Zarif. I told him, ‘Look you guys need to recognize the world does not appreciate what’s happening with missiles, what’s happening with Hezbollah, what’s happening with Yemen,’” Kerry recounted. “You’re supporting an ongoing struggle there.”

Iran has said “they’re prepared to negotiate and resolve these issues, but the [Trump] administrations taken a very different tact.”

Criticizing the current White House, Kerry lamented that “it appears right now, as if the administration is hell bent … to pursue a regime change strategy” in Iran that would “bring the economy down and try to isolate further.”

The former secretary of state cautioned the current administration, saying “the United States historically has not had a great record in regime change strategies, number one, and number two that makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for any Iranian leader to sit down and negotiate anything because they’re not going to do it in a capitulatory situation.”

Iranian leaders have said multiple times in recent months that they will not take any meetings with Trump or his administration.


1,420 posted on 09/12/2018 11:09:02 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

“rogue diplomacy” = treasonous backstabbing

Anyone think otherwise?

... also = desperate attempt to cover up other treason on the part of himself, HRC, 0vomit, and others


1,438 posted on 09/12/2018 11:56:29 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: mairdie

Infuriating! As if this brain dead twit knows anything at all on how to bring stability to the region. Arrest him, this is insanity!


1,480 posted on 09/12/2018 12:41:42 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: mairdie

There is, the Logan Act.


1,494 posted on 09/12/2018 12:54:44 PM PDT by Snowybear
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To: mairdie
Kerry Meeting With Iran to Salvage Nuke Deal With Rogue Diplomacy

Simple: Like BHO tries to take credit for the Trump Economy, JFnK tries to take credit for Trump bringing Iran back into civilization.

F JFnK.

1,505 posted on 09/12/2018 1:01:41 PM PDT by AZLiberty ("If we believe in absurdities, we commit atrocities." -- said by Voltaire, lived by elite Libs)
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To: mairdie

Sounds like Kerry is crusin’ for a rogue drone strike.


1,514 posted on 09/12/2018 1:11:30 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA!)
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To: ransomnote; TEXOKIE; bagster; Wneighbor; little jeremiah; txhurl

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/twitter-blocks-posts-that-use-phrase-illegal-alien-as-hateful-content/

Twitter blocks posts that use phrase ‘illegal alien’ as ‘hateful content’

The federal government, U.S. Supreme Court, and lawyers across the country use the word “illegal alien” to describe immigrants who illegally enter the country, because that’s the definition in the law.

But Twitter makes its own laws, and the social media giant is now blocking folks from promoting any messages with the phrase, which its moderators apparently consider “hate speech.”

1/ Twitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase “illegal alien(s)”, citing it as “Hateful Content.” However, the phrase “illegal aliens” has been used in both federal law and by the Supreme Court.

— Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) September 11, 2018

“1/ Twitter is not allowing us to promote any tweets including the phrase ‘illegal alien(s)’, citing it as Hateful Content,” the Center for Immigration Studies posted to Twitter Tuesday. “However, ‘illegal aliens’ has been used in both federal law and by the Supreme Court.”

Twitter rejected a total of four ads from the Center but provided only vague reasoning for the decision.

“We’ve reviewed your tweets and confirmed that it is ineligible to participate in the Twitter Ads program at this time based on our Hateful Content policy. Violating content include, but is not limited to, that which is hate speech or advocacy against a protected group,” according to a notice posted on the CIS website.

“All four tweets use the statutory phrases ‘illegal alien’ or ‘criminal alien’, and all of the tweets referenced law enforcement, either at the border or in the interior,” CIS reports. “One of the tweets contained a powerful Daily Caller video showing illegal aliens in camouflage carrying large backpacks across the border unimpeded.”

One of the tweets rejected by Twitter Ads simply stated facts put out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE recently completed a massive multi-state enforcement operation targeting criminal aliens that resulted in the arrests of 364 individuals. Of those, 187 (51%) had prior criminal convictions and 97 had been previously removed from the United States.https://t.co/PSWsBNlmCU

— Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) September 6, 2018

“ICE recently completed a massive multi-state enforcement operation targeting criminal aliens that resulted in the arrests of 364 individuals,” it read. “Of those, 187 (51%) had prior criminal convictions and 97 had been previously removed from the United States.”

Others offered an opinion on immigration that runs counter to the mainstream media narrative.

A couple in Oregon was recently killed by a drunk-driving Mexican illegal alien.

Now, with the state’s sanctuary law being put up to a ballot, the sanctuary law’s defenders say the other side is “seizing upon” illegal alien crime.

Isn’t that the point?https://t.co/lScfW32pUm

— Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) September 10, 2018

“A couple in Oregon was recently killed by a drunk-driving Mexican illegal alien,” another read. “Now, with the state’s sanctuary law being put up to a ballot, the sanctuary law’s defenders say the other side is ‘seizing upon’ illegal alien crime. Isn’t that the point?”

The farm which employed the illegal alien who killed Mollie Tibbetts was raided by ICE agents.

ICE should do more of this– continue to focus on employers of illegal aliens who commit serious crimes. Often, those arrests lead to many more aliens found.https://t.co/Ht0vHneeIo

— Center for Immigration Studies (@CIS_org) September 11, 2018

“The farm which employed the illegal alien who killed Mollie Tibbetts was raided by ICE agents,” the CIS posted in another rejected tweet. “ICE should do more of this – continue to focus on employers of illegal aliens who commit serous crimes. Often, those arrests lead to many more aliens found.”

After the ad rejections, CIS schooled Twitter with several examples of the term “illegal alien” in federal court records, as well as the definition from the Code of Federal Regulations: “Illegal alien means any person who is not lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States or who has not been authorized by the Attorney General to accept employment in the United States.”

Twitchy points out that Twitter joins others who have attempted to censor the term “illegal immigrant” or similar descriptions of illegal immigrants in recent years.

In 2013, the Associated Press advised journalists not to use the world “illegal” when referring to those who break the law by crossing the border.

“Except in direct quotations, do not use the terms illegal alien, an illegal, illegals or undocumented,” the AP Style Guide instructs.

Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat and rumored 2020 presidential candidate, has also declared “illegal alien” offensive, stating in 2016 that “we must stop treating undocumented workers as criminals in this country,” Twitchy reports.


1,541 posted on 09/12/2018 1:40:44 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie

It IS against the law . The fact that Kerry has not yet been arrested for conducting foreign policy undermining POTUS is very troubling. Surely, no matter what The Plan, this continuing interference and sabotage of foreign policy should not be tolerated.

Whose responsibility is it to arrest and charge Kerry? DOJ?


1,646 posted on 09/12/2018 3:28:39 PM PDT by Right-wing Librarian
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