Posted on 09/12/2014 9:51:23 PM PDT by plain talk
The U.S. government Friday defended its handling of James Foley's case after the slain journalist's mother told CNN that officials suggested the family could be charged if they tried to raise money to free him. Saying everything possible had been done to bring the journalist home, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters officials worked very closely with Foley's family and with his employer, GlobalPost CEO Philip Balboni.
"Any advice that this department or other departments give to the families about what they should do in these situations is based solely on what is best for returning their loved one home, period," Harf said during a sometimes testy exchange with reporters. "Any accusation to the contrary is flatly wrong."
"It's part of our job to help the family understand what our laws are about ... " she said. "But this department would never, and did not ever, intend to, nor do we think we ever did anything that we would consider threatening" the family over a possible ransom.
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Didn’t he serve in Viet Nam?
Wut? Does anyone here speak Valley Girl?
callous pri*ks.
We can’t allow your small problems interfere with our political agenda.
If you do, we’ll put you in jail.
Obama dithered over the rescue operation in hopes that he wouldn’t have to make the decision. When he made it, the terrorists had flown the coop. But the upside was he avoided a repeat of Desert One. Here’s to hoping that Foley’s folks make his indecision the moral equivalent of Desert One for Obama.
Ping
Marie Harf isn’t qualified to man the complaints department of the lemonaid stand that Obama isn’t qualified to run
If true, something is very very wrong about the whole narrative that the WH is putting out. Schemes within schemes.
Would love to know this idiots IQ.
Some vet. This man should have gotten fragged, carelessly putting those under his command into jeopardy. I’m surprised he didn’t turn up MIA or KIA. That stuff happened a lot in vietnam, morons in charge didn’t get away with shit because what happened in that jungle stayed in that jungle.
I can’t believe these elitist pricks, they are completely out of touch with reality. I would make a better SOS than this moron. I’d certainly be speaking with the FAMILY personally with no body guards, and actively be working to find, and bring the man responsible to the states to face the family in chains. I’d probably even let the parents ride along on the helo, and if the scumbag muslim had an accident and fell. Too bad.
The man was murdered by the Administration, by the administration’s kabuki terrorist outlaws, for this shameful game. It is a complete black ops. 13 Hours showed that in spades.
Its is a disgrace to the USA. His family should sue Kerry personally for billions. He murdered that man on purpose.
His teeth go clickety-clack, you know
He’ll waste your time of day.
But Mr. John will never talk
Unless it’s been seared into his memory.
“This man should have gotten fragged, carelessly putting those under his command into jeopardy. I’m surprised he didn’t turn up MIA or KIA. That stuff happened a lot in vietnam, morons in charge didn’t get away with shit because what happened in that jungle stayed in that jungle.”
The only thing that saved him is the idiot wasn’t there long enough while running for Band-Aids.
Have no idea if this happened or not.
However, there are fairly obvious negative consequences to encouraging people to think kidnapping Americans is a good way to get rich quick.
If true, something is very very wrong about the whole narrative that the WH is putting out. Schemes within schemes.
Exactly. They can’t keep up with it all.
“Advice...based soley on what is best for returning their loved one home.” Except he isn’t home, he’s dead. Guess their advice is worth about the same amount as their promises. Zero, zip, zilch. Nothing.
It’s likely somewhere in the 120-140 range I would say. It’s not his intelligence that is the problem, it’s the way he views the world. He is certainly not very well versed with reality.
The IQ test is flawed anyways, at least I have always thought so. I was given a comprehensive IQ test when I was 9, and scored 132. But I’m not very socially intelligent, and I tend to speak before I think which are foolish qualities for someone as smart as people say I am. Some of my friends are really politically and technically idiotic. But they flourish socially. The IQ test merely quantifies your ability to absorb knowledge and learn. It has nothing to do with experience, knowledge, vision, ambition, or motivation. Which all factor into the end result. We get people like Kerry with a slightly above average IQ who have a twisted vision, motivation, no experience, and no knowledge. So his learning comes in and faced with facts his ambitions destroy what should be common sense.
A foolish man to be sure. Out of touch with those he is sworn to serve. We need a reset on American government. Liberals, republicans, progressives, conservatives, fags, Christians, muslims, minorities and everyone else need to realize that the American government has a problem which only we united can solve. It has become detached with the real world, living distant from the populace, causing us to suffer. Much like the British government before the American Revolution.
Agreed. This SOB (I am being kind) was the one that went with Tom Harkin to have social intercourse with Daniel Ortega, a devout commie.
How a scum like the fairy kerry could be a senator, let alone SOS reflects badly upon this country and shows the total bankruptcy of the dem party and progressives.
In my book they are all socialists, commies and fascists. Unfortunately, I have include a lot of pubs in the mix.
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