Posted on 09/17/2018 6:51:49 AM PDT by reaganaut1
George Logan, call your office. That’s my reaction to news that former Secretary of State John Kerry has, by his own account, been meeting privately with Iranian officials to try to save the nuclear deal.
Logan was the Pennsylvania politician whose unauthorized efforts to end the Quasi-War between France and America led to the Logan Act of 1799, which outlaws freelance diplomacy.
The New York Post has called Mr. Kerry’s conniving a “textbook violation” of the law. President Trump, after all, has pulled out of the nuclear accord and decided on a different course. Iran’s leaders, at least for the moment, are hanging onto the deal. Why not? It has brought billions to their coffers as they expand their military campaigns in the Mideast.
Last week the New York Times quoted “experts” as suggesting that the ayatollahs are “gambling” that Mr. Trump will be “crippled” in the midterm elections or swept out of office in 2020.
So have the Democrats been colluding with them? Or, as radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Mr. Kerry last week, has the former secretary of state been “trying to coach” Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif?
“That’s not how it works,” Mr. Kerry said. “What I have done is tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East.” He insisted he’d been “very blunt.” Mr. Kerry also told Mr. Hewitt that the administration appears “hell-bent-for-leather determined to pursue a regime change strategy” in Iran. “I would simply caution that the United States historically has not had a great record in regime change,” Mr. Kerry said. He added that it makes it “very difficult, if not impossible” for Iran to negotiate.
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Keeping it real. Don’t all countries have paid lobbyists who strive to influence votes in DC? Don’t they meet regularly with the countries they represent and give advice? I’m not supporting the practice, not at all. But I just can’t see how what Kerry is doing is any worse. Would it be somehow okay if he were a paid lobbyist?
This treasonous POS needs a trip to Gitmo and a military tribunal.
When you're the ex SoS and you meet with an enemy then either you have broken a law or you are an American traitor in need of the noose or both.
“former Secretary of State John Kerry has, by his own account, been meeting privately with Iranian officials to try to save the nuclear deal.”
Sounds like collusion to me.
If the Logan Act is still on the books,but just not used,then it’s time to either abolish it or use it. In Kerry’s case,I’d say “use it” to the full extent.
Everybody knows who and what John Kerry is. Look at what he did during the Viet Nam war.
Iran is our enemy. They have threatened to destroy us. Giving the support is aiding the enemy and that’s treason. He also committed treason when he imposed himself in the VN peace talks. When you let someone get way with someone nice, expect them to do it again.
get away once
You are correct....without the passport, he quickly falls back into place like a regular citizen.
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