Posted on 05/26/2022 3:11:36 PM PDT by DFG
Senior Obama administration officials engaged in a secret meeting with Iran in 2018 as part of an effort to undermine the Trump administration's diplomatic push to isolate the hardline regime, according to an internal State Department document.
As the Trump administration worked to increase economic pressure on Iran in 2018, a delegation of "U.S. former ambassadors," including John Kerry, held a secret, "off-the-record" meeting with former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif at his residence in New York City, according to a State Department memo unearthed this week as part of a lawsuit brought to compel the release of this information.
The internal memo, which is marked unclassified, details how these former U.S. ambassadors conducted shadow diplomacy with Iran's top envoy surrounding "nuclear weapons, potential prisoner swaps, [the] Afghanistan withdrawal, and negotiations with the Taliban," according to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a legal advocacy group that sued the State Department to obtain the internal memo.
The document is the firmest proof to date that Obama-era officials were engaged in back-channel efforts to keep negotiations with Iran alive, even as former president Donald Trump and his administration worked to isolate the regime, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo told the Free Beacon in exclusive remarks. Pompeo, who was not aware of these meetings while leading the State Department, said the memo corroborates reports from the time about Kerry's efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal through back-channel powwows with Iranian officials.
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They weren’t very secret about it.
At one hanging per hour, we’d be lucky to get things right in D.C. in 10 years.
Spot on!
I want to know why no one was charged with treason for aiding an enemy of the Republic?
Exactly. And nothing will happen to them because they are Democrats and the media will excuse, ignore and spin. And Republicans will do nothing to bring them to justice.
What will be done? Nothing.
John Kerry’s daughter married and Iranian whose father is a high government official, and they hobnob over the dinner table. Kerry is loathesome.
Indeed, treason.
So, where the hell are the treason charges?
All that said, nobody is going to be punished for anything they did to undermine the diplomacy of the Trump administration, it’s how the deep state rolls.
I guess I didn’t know it had to be in a declared war.
Even so, there should be some sort of charge that applies to negotiating without the consent of the President.
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
“or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Did you forget this part?
“or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Did you forget this part?
I realize that we have fought lots of wars since WWII, but none have been declared, so none of them are officially ‘wars’.
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