A Ho Chi Minh City museum that honors Vietnam war protesters features a photograph of Sen. John Kerry being greeted by the general secretary of the Communist Party, Comrade Do Muoi. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2004/06/24870/#eTMD7blIM6w2BvEg.99
Posted on 09/12/2014 9:51:23 PM PDT by plain talk
The U.S. government Friday defended its handling of James Foley's case after the slain journalist's mother told CNN that officials suggested the family could be charged if they tried to raise money to free him. Saying everything possible had been done to bring the journalist home, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters officials worked very closely with Foley's family and with his employer, GlobalPost CEO Philip Balboni.
"Any advice that this department or other departments give to the families about what they should do in these situations is based solely on what is best for returning their loved one home, period," Harf said during a sometimes testy exchange with reporters. "Any accusation to the contrary is flatly wrong."
"It's part of our job to help the family understand what our laws are about ... " she said. "But this department would never, and did not ever, intend to, nor do we think we ever did anything that we would consider threatening" the family over a possible ransom.
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You could have traded another batch of senior level terrorists from GTMO like you did for Bergdhal.
Yes, the White House is indeed an outlaw organization. That Five Terrorist Chieftans for the price of one semi-berserk deserter is treasonous, and can never be justified.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Miss Teen USA 2007
I think he was in a boat and caught a ricochet. Got a medal. Threw it back. Testified in front of Congress in a uniform he didn't deserve to wear.
It's about feeeeellllings! Competence? What's that?
Notice the body language of the hand passing over the face as she obfuscates.
http://www.businessinsider.com/foley-sotloff-family-threatened-prosecution-2014-9
My guess is it happened since both families making that claim.
Well, you could have fooled me...said the five Gitmo terrorists walking free as birds...
"I think our efforts to get Jim freed were an annoyance" to the U.S. government, she said in the interview that aired Thursday. "It didn't seem to be in (U.S.) strategic interest, if you will."
Yeah, too bad we did not celebrate of nations birth on June 4th instead of July 4th Jim Foley might have been rescued...
My God, these people make me sick...
Harf cited Balboni’s statement regarding the ransom demand, while reiterating that under anti-terrorism laws in the United States it is illegal to negotiate with terrorists, such as ISIS.
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Well, you could have fooled me...said the five Gitmo terrorists walking free as birds...
Bingo! Yet, the MSM refuses to make that little connection for Ms Barf/the regime.
ISIS is killing reporters and the Obama Administration is lying to them... any chance they'll wake up?
ISIS is killing reporters and the Obama Administration is lying to them... any chance they'll wake up? Hello suck-ups at the New York Times...
More like JV practice squad.
A Ho Chi Minh City museum that honors Vietnam war protesters features a photograph of Sen. John Kerry being greeted by the general secretary of the Communist Party, Comrade Do Muoi. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2004/06/24870/#eTMD7blIM6w2BvEg.99
Our government let our Libyan ambassador die at the hands of Jihadists.
If my loved ones were held by Muslim yahoos, I wouldn’t trust Obama to bring them home either.
“”Any advice that this department or other departments give to the families about what they should do in these situations is based solely on what is best for returning their loved one home, period,” “
Yeah. . .how’s that working out for ya. . .obozo and lurch.
What is it with the DoS and all those eight-grade teachers-pet snitches as spokesMEN?
My ‘favorite’. . .”Direct Kinetic Action”
Those idiots can’t call a war a WAR.
American Patriots Against John KerryThe 1970 meeting that John Kerry conducted with North Vietnamese communists violated U.S. law, according to an author and researcher who has studied the issue.
Kerry met with representatives from “both delegations” of the Vietnamese (North Vietnamese and Viet Cong) in Paris in 1970, according to Kerry’s own testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. But Kerry’s meetings with the Vietnamese delegations were in direct violation of laws forbidding private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, according to researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s.
According to Corsi, Kerry violated U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953. “A U.S. citizen cannot go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power,” Corsi told CNSNews.com.
By Kerry’s own admission, he met in 1970 with delegations from the North Vietnamese communist government and discussed how the Vietnam Warshould be stopped.
She said “Foley’s family, just like the soldiers who served with Bergdahl, are lying or don’t know what really happened.”
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