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Someone is really desperate to kill the Iran deal
CNN Fake News ^ | 8 May 2018 | John Kirby

Posted on 05/08/2018 11:31:05 AM PDT by Magnatron

If you need any more proof -- and by now you shouldn't -- of how effective the Iran deal has been, look no further than Saturday's edition of The Guardian/Observer.

Reporters Mark Townsend and Julian Borger reported that aides to President Trump hired an Israeli private intelligence agency, Black Cube, to "dig up dirt" on former Obama administration officials involved in negotiating and/or defending the deal as part of an effort to discredit them and, by association, the deal itself.

According to the story, which said it was based on documents seen by Guardian/Observer reporters, investigators contracted by Black Cube were told to examine the personal lives and political careers of Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, and Colin Kahl, a national security adviser to former vice-president Joe Biden.

Sources cited by the New Yorker's Ronan Farrow gave a different account, asserting that the effort, rather than ordered up by aides to Trump, was part of Black Cube's work for a private-sector client pursuing commercial interests related to sanctions on Iran. "Black Cube has no relation whatsoever to the Trump administration, to Trump aides, to anyone close to the administration, or to the Iran nuclear deal. Anyone who claims otherwise is misleading their readers and viewers," the firm said in a statement.

In any event, investigators were apparently also told to look at potential involvement by Rhodes or Kahl with Iran-friendly lobbyists, personal or political gains they may have received from the deal, and any inappropriate disclosure of sensitive information that may have resulted from their defense of it.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: iraniannukes; trumpmiddleeast
Okay, I'm posting this solely for entertainment purposes. I was specifically monitoring the CNN site before, during, and after the announcement. They had this article teed up and ready to go. Immediately following Trump's announcement, this was posted.

I'm sure we'll be seeing more of these by the end of the day. These people are deranged...

1 posted on 05/08/2018 11:31:05 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

I wonder how long it will take before a San Francisco federal district judge enjoins President Trump from dumping Obama’s Iran deal.


2 posted on 05/08/2018 11:32:32 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I wouldn’t be surprised.

Sadly.


3 posted on 05/08/2018 11:33:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Magnatron

I’m betting Farrow is right, and that anyone hire to investigate Iran Deal supporters was in an effort to blackmail the into supporting it.

That’s the democrat way


4 posted on 05/08/2018 11:33:29 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I wonder how long it will take before a San Francisco federal district judge enjoins President Trump from dumping Obama’s Iran deal. ..............10, 9, 8, 7, ........


5 posted on 05/08/2018 11:34:44 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn Tag line, fouled up again, thanks cursor.)
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To: Magnatron

After their predictions of the outcome of the 2016 election, the consequences of the tax cuts, and the reaction of NK and China to Trump’s diplomacy, they want to continue their perfect record of failure.


6 posted on 05/08/2018 11:35:37 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I wonder how long it will take before a San Francisco federal district judge enjoins President Trump from dumping Obama’s Iran deal.


Makes total sense. All policy, foreign and domestic, should be controlled and manipulated by a San Francisco federal judge.


7 posted on 05/08/2018 11:41:28 AM PDT by samtheman (LetÂ’s elect as many Republicans as possible in 2018)
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To: Magnatron; All

8 posted on 05/08/2018 11:41:39 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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There is no truth to the rumor that John Kirby is a homosexual pedophile.

I'll bet he soiled himself when the election of President Trump signalled that the Pizza Party was over for his kind...

9 posted on 05/08/2018 11:42:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Magnatron

This is a new take on this... That somehow Trump wants to kill the deal for nefarious reasons.


10 posted on 05/08/2018 11:43:14 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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Who got dividends on the Iran deal? That boat load of cash we shipped over surely has more than Iranians names on it.

Canceling this ‘deal’ has the appearance of ‘wounding’ the new world order?

11 posted on 05/08/2018 11:44:01 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: rightwingcrazy
After their predictions of the outcome of the 2016 election, the consequences of the tax cuts, and the reaction of NK and China to Trump’s diplomacy, they want to continue their perfect record of failure.

I assume it wasn't a "failure" at all to the people who were responsible for it, probably because they were promised retirement packages worth hundreds of millions of dollars deposited in offshore accounts.

12 posted on 05/08/2018 11:55:01 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Magnatron

No, we shouldn’t doubt anything that CNN reports. Because their record is soooooo good.

I understand Stormy Daniels is majorly against the Iran deal.


13 posted on 05/08/2018 11:55:16 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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The sole reason why Billions were stacked on Pallets and shipped to Iran is that cash is not traceable. Our Traitorous Senators filled their pockets with that money.


14 posted on 05/08/2018 11:58:27 AM PDT by heights
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To: Bubba_Leroy

And PDJT can and IMHO should tell the judge to pound sand...IF they do, I don’t think they will.


15 posted on 05/08/2018 12:56:45 PM PDT by Jolla
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Whhhhhaaaattttt???? What exactly are they proving as being effective? Sure... it was pretty treasonous. Err, and it basically gave Iran a smokescreen to work on Nuclear weapons.

But they went from ‘see how effective it is’ because ‘Trump went looking for dirt on it’? How odd and illogical.


16 posted on 05/08/2018 1:28:15 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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