Posted on 10/11/2015 6:35:43 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
It’s usually the first warning to someone who’s about to enter into a complicated legal agreement: Be sure to read the fine print.
Looks like President Obama and the team that negotiated the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran didn’t do that. Or, worse still, they did — but hoped no one else would. Too late for that.
Fox News’ James Rosen reports some senior US officials involved in the negotiations have concluded that a key element of the deal conflicts with federal law and can’t be implemented.
Unless Congress changes the law, that is. But since majorities in both houses opposed the deal, why would they help it now?
Especially since it involves sanctions relief — freeing up tens of billions to Tehran for use in supporting its terrorist allies.
At issue is a provision allowing foreign subsidiaries of US firms to do business with Iran.
Oops: The Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act, signed into law by Obama in 2012, specifies that this can only happen if Iran is removed from the State Department’s list of terror sponsors and the president certifies that Iran has permanently ceased the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.
Iran has said loudly it won’t stop boosting terror, and the deal doesn’t even pretend to permanently stop it from building nukes.
If the deal were a treaty ratified by Congress, it would be near-impossible to challenge in court. But it’s not a treaty — and this fine-print problem is an open invitation to legal challenge.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Law? This administration don’t care about no stinkin’ laws.
Hot-diggety!!
Obama is not bound by treaty, law, or honor.
Its not a treaty or an executive agreement and cannot be enforced by the courts.
Only treaties are the supreme law of the land.
Of course Obama and Kerry knew ahead of time, if they had to submit the Iran nuclear deal as a treaty, the Senate would never have ratified it.
So that’s why they drafted it as they did. Its now too late to fix that mistake.
Hahaha. That's so cute. He still thinks congress opposes Obama’s agenda. They'll ignore the infraction or change the law.
We have laws, you mean like ones that mean something...
Obama is not bound by treaty, law, or honor.
Doesn’t seem to be in the Republicans’ vocabulary either.
Don’t know where our great peoples’ defenders-—McCain, Graham, Peter King, Paul Ryan, et al.-—where they are on issues like this.
Immigration, amnesty, a filthy, lying, destructive health care program...and now treachery against the nation. But not a peep out of those who are always telling us how stupid and disloyal we are.
This point has been brought up before.
Didn’t go anywhere
Still won’t go anywhere.
Those running for president can state their positions. All they have to do is state that this is not a treaty and that they won’t be breaking the law.
In less than 500 days, the obama-iran deal is over.
The Iranians don’t even really want it. They are going to do what they want regardless of some papers that Obama and Kerry waive around.
I think the truth might be in who gets a large cut of that frozen 100 billion. I bet Obama, the Democrat Party and a lot of establishment Republicans will see a nice chunk of it.
Sadly, not enough people understand the treaty process and if they did they’d be scared s**tless. Remember the old sign it before you see what’s in it crap? So do ‘they’ come up with some bs Memorandum of Understanding or something to cover their collective butts instead? Clever bastard eh?
Is that Reggie Love in the background? ;)
Sadly, not enough people understand the treaty process
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The sheeple are easily fooled by ‘complexities’ cooked up by crafty politicians. Most people in this country have no clue what’s going on in their own government.
King Putt breaking a law that he signed into being.
I wouldnt have it any other way.
LOL! (kinda) But a lot of them can tell you what the kardouchians had for dinner last night.
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