Posted on 01/01/2016 2:21:16 PM PST by Kaslin
The Obama administration's loathing of Benjamin Netanyahu knows no bounds; nor, apparently, does its contempt for Congress:
Top Democrats in Congress are brushing off a report that U.S. intelligence intercepted communications between Israeli government officials and lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Rep. Eliot Engel (N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said it is no secret that the U.S. and Israel spy on each other, even though they are allies.
"I'm not surprised," he told The Hill. "I kind of think the report is much to do about nothing."
Engel, a staunch supporter of Israel, said he met twice behind closed doors with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer during the heated debate over the nuclear agreement with Iran. He said Dermer presented the Israeli government's case against the deal.
The New York congressman indicated he decided to oppose the deal based on details he learned in briefings from U.S. officials, rather than arguments made by the Israelis. He said he wouldn't be concerned if his conversations with Dermer happened to be caught by American intelligence.
"I assume that everything I say someone is listening. I am careful that what I say in public is what I say in private," Engel said. "You just have to assume that when you're a public person, what you say [could be monitored] … I don't know what this really tells us."
What that really tells us is that Engel supports a near-lawless administration that will keep pushing the bounds of tradition, propriety and moral decency until it has smashed them completely.
Engel's comments come one day after The Wall Street Journal published a report saying the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on communications between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli officials during the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran. Private conversations with congressmen and American Jewish groups were reportedly swept up by the agency as Israeli officials lobbied against the Iran deal, according to the Journal.
The report raised eyebrows because it revealed how the U.S. continues to spy on some allies despite Obama's pledge to reduce the scope of NSA snooping on friendly governments following disclosures made by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013. Republicans pointed to the surveillance as another example of Obama's poor treatment of Israel.
Not just of Israel, Republicans: of Congress as well. But nobody in Congress seems to care.
Of course. Goose stepping democrats. The norm the last 7 years. Pubbies not much better.
How can anyone speak out? 0 now has dirt on everyone.
well we can speak out and more...Road trip to DC anyone...th throw ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the bums out...DEMOS, RINOS...communist, socialist...one for all and ALLL the same!
” Eliot Engel (N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said “I kind of think the report is much to do about nothing.”
STUPID useful fools...wonder what he will be saying other than pissing in his pants when his brother muslims, socialist, communist buddies are hanging him by the balls and cutting his throat...same as the MSM that also lied with the DEMSm to get us where we are today...sh*ting out the other side!
Now do you really want to know how I feel...think not?
So. Engel is now on the list of traitors.
Congress has -amazingly IMHO— turned into a suck-up enabling rubber stamp and protector of the illegal alien in chief and his sabotage—America program. I never thought there could be enough money or organization to buy off so many people all at the same time - and it’s pretty clear some Congresscritters are being blackmailed. This is why Obama keeps spying on them - to get more “dirt” he can use against them. Mostly probably just the old - fashioned stuff like Infidelity, corruption, and so on. Foreign relations wouldn’t register very highly on that list. The key thing is that Obama spies on our congress - critters and they then buckle under to his (islamonazi style) dictatorship Our right to representation has been taken away from us
Corollary- Democrats spy on Republicans
Kinda reminds of Nixon. Nixon resigned
Il Douche merely holds his chin high and dares anyone to come after him.
And the eGOP says ‘Yes Massa’.
Small error in the title:
It isn’t “Democrats shrug”; it is “Uniparty Shrugs”.
And a few of the Uniparty (R)s pretend to care.
Said it before and will say again: Democrats are Democrats first and foremost and Americans second, if then. Laws and the Constitution have no meaning to them and both can be violated if it furthers the Democrat cause.
Chucky would be calling for indictments if obama was a republican, has anyone heard a word from this skid
Agree with that.
But just how dirty ARE all these people that a few stolen files neutralize them politically?
You gotta wonder.
The congress is worse than Obama. They could have stopped him but choose not to. Paid off bums.
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