Posted on 12/23/2014 9:55:33 AM PST by Olog-hai
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) was traveling back and forth to Cuba in secret negotiations to try and secure a release for American prisoner Alan Gross when a woman approached him with an impassioned plea: she wanted a child and she needed his help.
The woman, the wife of one of the Cuban spies imprisoned in the U.S. on espionage charges, was in her early 40s and said she was almost out of time. According to Tim Rieser, Leahy’s foreign policy aide, she was “clearly desperate.”
That began an unusual effort on the part the senator, who is chairman of the State Department and Foreign Operations for the Appropriation Subcommittee, and his aide to help carry out an artificial insemination using the semen of a prisoner sentenced to two life terms and transporting it hundreds of miles away to impregnate his wife. The insemination happened in Panama, where the wife was flown to have the procedure. […]
But the move was condemned by Miami Congressman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who tweeted that the U.S. “should not have facilitated in vitro procedures [for] convicted assassin Gerardo Hernandez.” …
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This SOUNDS to all hell like a JOKE.
Alas....
What is known in espionage circles as “wet work”.
All so Gross could get more humane treatment. That the Castro’s don’t have a warrant out in every country for gross human rights abuses is the biggest joke.
Imagine the uproar if we detained Cubans and mistreated them in exchange for money.
We suck at being a country.
It was Patrick Leahy and your tax dollars at work.
Smuggling seeds? Shouldn’t the Dept. of Agriculture get involved?
Would it be possible to trade Leahy for some peasant off the street in Cuba? He serves no useful purpose here as we already have more than enough politicians tossing money down rat holes.
Wait for it - will we later find out that we paid for this including transportation? Since the semen came from the US, will we find out that Obama will confer US citizenship? Our government has gone mad. Nothing is beyond possible to these crazies.
I only felt angry when I read this article, because I am thinking of all the time, energy and taxpayer money that our government spent in order to help this poor lady out, but didn’t lift a FINGER!!! to help Sargent Tahmooressi who languished for 214 days in a Mexican jail.
I’m disgusted.
If that were true, then the people currently crossing our southern border would be quickly running in the other direction.
What’s really true is that the liberal demagogue politicians suck at running this country.
Actions like this show the allegiance of those who commit them.
Nobody does it better.
Somehow, it seems perfectly appropriate that Leahy would culminate his career as a corrupt senator and rabid abortion pimp by schlepping a vial of semen across country for a convicted cuban spy.
He can put that at the top of his resume.
Seems our administration has a Phalllic fixation to accompany it’s islamoNazi terrorist enabling efforts. How about we give him a male goat and buy them a one-way ticket to some nice isolated Moslem island ?
Exactly!
Leaky Leahy did NOT use a “vial”. He “hand carried” it in his mouth.
It looks like it was IVF. They said it didn’t work the first time. So they must have frozen the embryos. That’s expensive.
They lied to us abut the commie Gross. Said he lost 100 lbs and was half blind. If he lost 100 lbs, he needed to. He looks great.
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