Awesome.
Hezbollah, which operates in Lebanon, is basically an Iranian proxy army and "social welfare" organization. It was formed from the old Amal Shiite Muslim militia that helped contribute to Lebanon's misery during its long civil war. Not only is Hezbollah ("Party of God") a terrorist organization, but they're also a criminal drug gang that funds its terrorist activities by smuggling cocaine into the US.
So of course our government had to derail the investigation into the terror group, which would have threatened the Iran nuclear deal that was being pushed at the time.
"In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah's illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.
They followed cocaine shipments, tracked a river of dirty cash, and traced what they believed to be the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.
But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests."
What is it about Iran that makes our government do stupid things? Like this and like trying to work with them and the Nicaraguan Contras on a complicated arms-and-missiles scheme? Are we just really, really stupid when it comes to the Islamic Republic?
The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
Hezbollah, which operates in Lebanon, is basically an Iranian proxy army and "social welfare" organization. It was formed from the old Amal Shiite Muslim militia that helped contribute to Lebanon's misery during its long civil war. Not only is Hezbollah ("Party of God") a terrorist organization, but they're also a criminal drug gang that funds its terrorist activities by smuggling cocaine into the US.
So of course our government had to derail the investigation into the terror group, which would have threatened the Iran nuclear deal that was being pushed at the time.
"In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah's illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.
They followed cocaine shipments, tracked a river of dirty cash, and traced what they believed to be the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.
But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests."
What is it about Iran that makes our government do stupid things? Like this and like trying to work with them and the Nicaraguan Contras on a complicated arms-and-missiles scheme? Are we just really, really stupid when it comes to the Islamic Republic?
The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."
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big kahuna: Dec 18, 17 10:41