Posted on 02/22/2016 7:12:21 AM PST by MarvinStinson
New York City's former top cop said Sunday that the Obama administration cut funding to fight terrorism in the city to retaliate against Sen. Chuck Schumer for opposing a nuclear deal with Iran.
"There's a certain amount vindictiveness on the part of Washington aimed at Sen. Chuck Schumer," Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said in an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.
"Apparently they remember very well that Sen. Schumer did not support their Iran deal," Kelly said, arguing the proposed cut "was aimed at getting a reaction from Sen. Schumer."
Schumer was the most senior Democrat in Congress last year to oppose an international agreement under which Iran agreed to give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
Schumer, a Democrat set to become the party's Senate leader, joined New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city's police and fire commissioners to blast a White House budget plan that would cut annual funding for the city's Urban Area Security Initiative from $600 million to to $330 million.
Schumer statements drew a pointed White House response, an unusual reaction aimed at a key Democratic ally.
"At some point, Sen. Schumer's credibility in talking about national security issues, particularly when the facts are as they are when it relates to homeland security, have to be affected by the position that he's taken on other issues," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday.
"Sen. Schumer is somebody that came out and opposed the international agreement to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. He was wrong about that position," Earnest said. "And when people look at the facts here when it comes to funding for homeland security, they'll recognize that he's wrong this time too."
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“There’s a certain amount vindictiveness on the part of Washington aimed at Sen. Chuck Schumer,” trans....Schumer is Jewish and Obama is __________.
Not like they did anything seriously vindictive like delaying traffic on a bridge.
Obama is a Christian muslim protege of Rev, “God Damn America” Wright and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
If Obama is willing to screw security funding because of a spat with ideological friends, it makes it all the more possible to believe the IRS scandal, the DOJ scandals and all the other abuses of federal bureaus for political gamesmanship.
Ah the DiC does it again
petty and vindictive? barack obama? no!
Acting president Valerie Jarrett is very vindictive.
The Iran deal was her baby.
She held secret meetings (she speaks Farsi—born in Iran) with Iran before the public meetings that resulted in enabling Iran to get the bomb and $150 billion dollars from the US.
It was more than that!! Obamjarret's treason allowed medium range missile tech to be accessed by their ideological idols..!
""Why are you are against 'diplomacy'!
"Instead you want WAR!"
If this is not the ultimate treason, I don’t know what is: to sacrifice the most important city in the country for political payback. Blood on his hands, big-league.
He can’t handle Putin that way.
When he tried to hand over Egypt to the muslim brotherhood the Egyptian people said, “NO!”
But he can work his crap with those in the US who need their salaries and pensions.
His method of handling others is to try to bulldoze, intimidate them.
A sicko.
And his spokesmen for this are the repulsive Josh Earnest, Marie Harf and Jen Psaki.
Well said.
Post-presidency Obama and the missus have mega dollars dancing in their heads. Two Clintonesque foundations and the Obama library fund are all set to get BIG donations from his Muslim confreres.
We need to see solicitation letters from the two Obama Foundations (two that we know of), and requests for donations to his billion dollar Chicago library.....to be built using eminent domain.
We need to see all of Valerie/s correspondence, emails, snail mails, hard drives, wire-transfers, text files, offshore banking activity, and the like.
As the country’s largest city and the only U.S. location repeatedly attacked by terrorists, including the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, New York officials have long sought extra consideration in allocation of federal anti-terror funds.
“New York is an enduring target,” Kelly said. “It always will be.”
What’s the point of having power if you’re not going to abuse it, anyway?
The basic attitude of Obama is that
nothing can come back at him.
Like the brat standing in his yard making faces at passers by behind the safety of his family’s iron wrought fence.
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