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Re: Obama Administration let Hezbollah off the hook to secure Iran deal
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Originally Posted by Mick
This is not about historical issues as such, as this is a lot different in terms of, I don't think any President in recent U.S history has derailed a justice program installed by it's own country, so blatantly, just to seal a deal with a Iran.
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Unless you count Reagan, whose administration sold arms to Iran illegally to fund the Nicaraguan Contras, and whose government and the CIA turned a blind eye to the Contras supplying drugs to the USA.
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Originally Posted by Damien
Haven't read the article yet because it's very long, and it does look bad, but putting pressure to drop investigations 'for the national interest' happens a lot. We've done it before as well: https://www.ft.com/content/0ff015e8-...f-0000779e2340.
Don't know specifically about the US but I would be surprised if they've never dropped something for political reasons because it would imperil some other international cause/deal/policy. |
I did read the article, and it also states that a lot of the obstruction/downplaying of the severity was from other Government Agencies, such as the CIA and State Department, as the DEA activities (Project Cassandra) interfered with other initiatives (such as deeply placed infiltrators into Hezbollah and counter-terrorist operations) they were running, and also believed they overstated their case.
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