Posted on 09/14/2018 2:59:38 AM PDT by JonnyFive
Former Secretary of State John Kerry is being slammed for conducting shadow diplomacy with Iran after admitting to multiple meetings with Iranian officials behind the backs of Trump administration officials -- including over the scrapped nuclear deal.
An administration official on Thursday told Fox News Kerrys meetings are "shameful," pointing out what Iranian-backed militias are doing to kill and injure people in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Other Republicans suggested it may not even be legal.
John Kerry is out giving advice to Iran about how to maneuver around what Donald Trump is doing; it's insidious, Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary for George W. Bush, said Wednesday on Fox News' "Special Report." I don't know if it's legal or illegal, I don't care about that side of it. It's wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“Shameful” it ain’t.
Shall we try “ILLEGAL”?
He is a filthy Judas who lives to betray. He betrayed his men in the Navy, he betrayed his people as a politician.
I don’t know if it’s legal or illegal, I don’t care about that side of it....”
And that’s the Republicans problem. Make an example or it’s going to get worse and worse down the road.
18 U.S. Code § 953 - Private correspondence with foreign governments
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Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/953
Kerry is not alone in this imho. I think there are a lot of people working behind the scenes to thwart President Trump’s policies. I would include some Republicans. One of them just died thank God.
Kerry trying to keep his presidential aspirations alive, he’s a clown like the rest of them.
I saw a photo of Kerry on another (unmentionable) thread where he looked dejected wandering the streets of Paris all by himself.
Kerry, Gore, Brown - guess they think the Dems are in power:
13 Sept: ClimateChangeNews: Let down by Trump on climate, China goes around him in California
At the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco, the superpower and the US state cut diplomatic deals that fly in the face of White House policy
By Karl Mathiesen in San Francisco
In remarks to a room filled to standing at the back, Brown thanked the very large Chinese delegation, which included Xie Zhenhua, Chinas long-standing climate majordomo and the top official in the delegation.
Just the fact that you are here, in such numbers, and people of such importance and expertise says volumes about the commitment of China to confronting climate change, (Brown) said...
A few minutes earlier, when Brown had risen to address the delegation, laughter rippled through the crowd. The Chinese-to-English interpreter had mistranslated his introduction, calling Brown the president of California...
This mutual dependence in the face of mutual threat was a recipe to overcome the two countries differences, said Brown.
Xie Yuan agreed: Both China and the US have a shared destiny and shared future.
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/09/13/let-trump-climate-china-goes-around-california/
Says the idiot who never read the verification clauses of the deal with Iran which turned out to be that Iran would handle the verification.
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