“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” (U.S. Code 2381)
In a sane political environment, Barack Obama would be tried for treason.
“The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook,” by Josh Meyer, Politico, December 17, 2017:
How Hezbollah turned to trafficking cocaine and laundering money through used cars to finance its expansion.
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.
The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.
“This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision,” said David Asher, who helped establish and oversee Project Cassandra as a Defense Department illicit finance analyst. “They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down.”
The untold story of Project Cassandra illustrates the immense difficulty in mapping and countering illicit networks in an age where global terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime have merged, but also the extent to which competing agendas among government agencies — and shifting priorities at the highest levels — can set back years of progress.
And while the pursuit may be shadowed in secrecy, from Latin American luxury hotels to car parks in Africa to the banks and battlefields of the Middle East, the impact is not: In this case, multi-ton loads of cocaine entering the United States, and hundreds of millions of dollars going to a U.S.-designated terrorist organization with vast reach.
Obama had entered office in 2009 promising to improve relations with Iran as part of a broader rapprochement with the Muslim world. On the campaign trail, he had asserted repeatedly that the Bush administration’s policy of pressuring Iran to stop its illicit nuclear program wasn’t working, and that he would reach out to Tehran to reduce tensions.
The man who would become Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser and then CIA director, John Brennan, went further. He recommended in a policy paper that “the next president has the opportunity to set a new course for relations between the two countries” through not only a direct dialogue, but “greater assimilation of Hezbollah into Lebanon’s political system.”
By May 2010, Brennan, then assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, confirmed in a speech that the administration was looking for ways to build up “moderate elements” within Hezbollah.
“Hezbollah is a very interesting organization,” Brennan told a Washington conference, saying it had evolved from “purely a terrorist organization” to a militia and, ultimately, a political party with representatives in the Lebanese Parliament and Cabinet, according to a Reuters report.
“There is certainly the elements of Hezbollah that are truly a concern to us what they’re doing,” Brennan said. “And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements.”
In practice, the administration’s willingness to envision a new role for Hezbollah in the Middle East, combined with its desire for a negotiated settlement to Iran’s nuclear program, translated into a reluctance to move aggressively against the top Hezbollah operatives, according to Project Cassandra members and others.
Lebanese arms dealer Ali Fayad, a suspected top Hezbollah operative whom agents believed reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a key supplier of weapons to Syria and Iraq, was arrested in Prague in the spring of 2014. But for the nearly two years Fayad was in custody, top Obama administration officials declined to apply serious pressure on the Czech government to extradite him to the United States, even as Putin was lobbying aggressively against it….
Asher, for one, said Obama administration officials expressed concerns to him about alienating Tehran before, during and after the Iran nuclear deal negotiations. This was, he said, part of an effort to “defang, defund and undermine the investigations that were involving Iran and Hezbollah,” he said.
“The closer we got to the [Iran deal], the more these activities went away,” Asher said. “So much of the capability, whether it was special operations, whether it was law enforcement, whether it was [Treasury] designations — even the capacity, the personnel assigned to this mission — it was assiduously drained, almost to the last drop, by the end of the Obama administration.”…
mike9a says
Is there a tree high enough? “In a sane …” says it all!
MARCO D says
OBAMA AND KILLARY CLIT SHOULD FACE THE SAME DEMISE AS MOUSSALINE AND HIS MISTRESS – HUNG UP IN A PUBLIC SQUARE BY THE FEET AND HAVE THEIR THROATS SLIT SO THEY CAN BLEED TO DEATH- RECORD REAL JUSTICE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gordon Miller says
Maybe that’s going too far. But don’t we have an attorney General?
Mr. President please fire that wimpy Sessions and appoint someone who will take on Obama for this treasonous act.
gravenimage says
Sounds like you want to see the civilized West descending to the same savagery as the Muslim world. *Ugh*.
Andy says
Shocking Deep State Corruption Exposed | True News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR9Ask5wuSQ
underbed cat says
They did not say they would charge Hillary, I don;t see a difference in words but the inaction of the gross, or reckless handeling of computer data was made during an election I am one who is O.K. with the decision but it should have not gone away…..those emails that were missing now show it, so beside the FBI did not get Hilliary to under oath and allowed her to continue.and the election to proceed. She lost….so now she was able to accuse the FBI, then scramble for anything but since no changes happened it should have been continued…what a mess. But if they had put HIllary under oath and she was charged in office it could have gone much worse Obama, would still be in office as he did have power over the DNC. Drugging society for recreation, to allow addictions to spread is a crime that is allowed by those who want to bring civilization down..to its knees and the drug operations to create wealth to replace governments….in a calm collected evil manner..
CogitoErgoSum says
Once upon a time the unwritten rule within the FBI was “Don’t embarrass the Bureau.” If there are no red faces from shame within the Hoover Building right now, there should at least be some from anger. But if this is what has become of the FBI, imagine what the rest of the U.S. government is like. When the lights are turned on the cockroaches scurry for cover. Trump has flicked the switch and Stefan is one of those helping us see the light.
Carolyne says
I don’t understand why the FBI is considered sacrosanct. Under J Edgar Hoover, the Mafia was allowed to flourish and I believe he and his girlfriend, Clyde Colson, were part of it. Hoover played the horses heavily. He kept his position simply by having scandalous material on Presidents which he threatened to expose should they get out of line, ie JFK and Marilyn Monroe. The FBI is corrupt and always has been. If I suddenly disappear, you’ll know they didn’t like this. Does anyone really think that Sessions reccused himself of his own free will? Of course not. The Hillary fix was in long before Comey was fired and, in fact, long before Comey exonerated her He is one of the main culprits, and Loretta Lynch was a further corrupting executive, conferring with Billl Clinton. The FBI didn’t care about Clinton conferring with Lynch, just who blew the whistle. These people are so firmly entrenched inside the FBI that they will never leave.They run the country.
CRUSADER says
Narco-Jihadists….a concern and a worry, since if narcotics can get smuggled so can other contraband which is bought by on-going drug-trade, vicious cycle.
We buy oil from OPEC and the Islamists use petrodollars against us.
We abuse drugs to escape from our lost lives, and that hard earned cash fuels the Jihadists.
We are addicted to things that bite us back.
Ernie says
Good observation , CRUSADER !
Carolyne says
We who? I’m not addicted to anything. Don’t even drink and stopped smoking years ago. Speak for yourself.
CRUSADER says
CLEARER thinking and CLEANER living
would go a long way to helping us in the West prevail!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ernie says
Very true !
ElderlyZionist says
Is it possible to resume the investigation? It would be very interesting to see exactly where the money trail leads.
underbed cat says
Treason by a very powerful slick, muslim brother jihadi……Guess who really was in the Ukraine….to rile it up? He is now part of the deep state of BHO….maybe JB knows?
Saipan Sam says
And there is NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING from the Media Elites on this….
Nothing NOTHING ~N O T H I N G~ Will change liberal treason… Treason is a crime punishable by death….
Shoot that traitor bastard
pfwag says
Obama is a taqiya practicing Muslim LSOS.
11B40 says
Greetings:
Pretty much every time I see that image of thankfully former President Obama, I recall a family dinner back when I was about ten years old and demonstrating a similar bit of digital dexterity toward my Big Sister. My father interrupted my joy in his usual succinct manner by saying, “If your having trouble with your finger, I can fix it for you.”
CogitoErgoSum says
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln … each has a monument in D.C. commemorating a special President. I have to admit that Obama was special in his own unique way and if a monument is ever to be put in place to commemorate him it should come in the form of a clenched fist with the middle finger pointing upward …. as the U.S. flag waves on high before it.
Thomas Kimball says
F.U. Tooo, Obama .Did anyone notice the finger he’s holding up in the picture?
CogitoErgoSum says
It’s how I remember him most.
Terry Gain says
No, it should have the right hand raised with the digital finger pointing a la Sarsour.
There are now more grounds to investigate Obama than Trump. I knew Obama was a traitor once I heard his June 2009 Cairo speech and heard him say “Islam was revealed” and unctously say “the holy Koran teaches us” . And he didn’t truthfully complete that sentence by saying “how to hate and kill”.
Z says
Arrest him for obstruction of investigation
Keith Gilbert says
Well, he/it certainly left enough for US to fix!
Charles says
I always knew that Berry Osama was a Treator to this country. BUT I also knew, he will never be brought to Justice for his crimes either!
The man is a “snake”. And should share a prison cell with hillary!
Silvia says
So, he KNOWINGLY let tons of hard drugs into the US, so numerous Americans became drug addicts and/or die from those drugs, in order to benefit iran and hezbullah, so they have enough money for weapons and terror, so they could hopefully, from his point of view, destroy Israel and other countries in the ME.
Not only an arch terrorist but a fuckin TRAITOR to his own people whom he swore to serve.
I can’t even begin to tell you all how much I detest this man.
DRHazard says
Obama employed bureaucratic “black” ops to undermine the safety of the World. I wonder how many lives were lost or destroyed due to his sympathy for anyone who hated the people he was elected to protect and the principles he vowed to uphold?
Cheer Bear Girl says
Everything Obama did was detrimental for America.
Treasonous S.O.B., may he rot in hell!
Obama is the worst president ever.
He makes Bush look like Reagan.
roberta says
“And while the pursuit may be shadowed in secrecy, from Latin American luxury hotels to car parks in Africa to the banks and battlefields of the Middle East, the impact is not: In this case, multi-ton loads of cocaine entering the United States, and hundreds of millions of dollars going to a U.S.-designated terrorist organization with vast reach.”
This is one of the main reasons I dont give money to street corner panhandlers. I would bet that in the coarse of a day panhandlers across the USA put a half million dollars into this machine.
Dana says
Thank you for pointing that out. There’s no sense in paying for our own destruction. It’s bad enough that we still do it via gasoline.
Terry Gain says
What word beginning with the letter M most accurately describes Obama? Hint, surprisingly, it is not Moron.
silvergreycat says
*…By May 2010, Brennan, then assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, confirmed in a speech that the administration was looking for ways to build up “moderate elements” within Hezbollah.
“Hezbollah is a very interesting organization,” Brennan told a Washington conference, saying it had evolved from “purely a terrorist organization” to a militia and, ultimately, a political party with representatives in the Lebanese Parliament and Cabinet, according to a Reuters report.
“There is certainly the elements of Hezbollah that are truly a concern to us what they’re doing,” Brennan said. “And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements.”*
David Wood brings up a point that Mr. Brennan didn’t know (or chose to ignore)…*The Two Faces of Islam*… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObIThAi07Tg
gravenimage says
Thanks for that. Hizb’allah has always been all about murdering Jews. Not all that ‘moderate’…
gravenimage says
Obama gave free pass to Hizballah’s drug ops in US, killed investigations to ensure Iran nuke deal stayed on track
…………………….
Grimly, this does not surprise.
George says
Drawing and quartering sound good.
Eric says
My question is can Obama still be tried for treason even though he is out of office?
Ever since Libya I knew that the finger giving Obama was an Islamist. General Flynn pointed out that Obama looked the other way while ISIS rose. John Guandolo has reported that John Brennan converted to Islam while he was CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia. Brennan was Obama’s favorite adviser.
In the South Bronx near the entrance to the Third Avenue Bridge there is a garage that housed cars to be shipped overseas. To those of us who lived and worked in the area this location was suspicious. We could never get authorities to do anything about it.
I hope the next time Obama flips the birdie he is doing it from behind his prison cell.
Eric
Infidel says
Obama was behaving like that typical tinpot African despot and that is what is real personality is… Mercifully, the term for an American President does not last forever. Regardless, this traitor has done COLOSSAL DAMAGE to the same land that gave him so much. Back in his land in Kenya, he would have been just another one of those hustlers talking glibly.. the types that U see quite often in Africa as well as in black ghettos across the West.
Infidel says
Also, to add, when Obama was President, I thought that I discerned a self-disbelief in him as to how a hood like him got into the oval office…He himself was shocked beyond belief that this actually happened to him. For him, it was a dream.. too good to be true and anytime he would wake up… Alas, for most of his countrymen, it turned out be a treasonous nightmare.
Infidel says
I cant resist to add this: U know Obama could have really been a hardcore US Patriot and used his 8 yrs in office REALLY in the interests of the same country and people who were generous to a fault towards him. Had he done the right thing by America, he would have gone long ways in improving the image of blacks as well as black-white race relationship. In other words, he could have done a BEN CARSON…… But then he let it all waste away…and posterity will record him as one of the WORST PRESIDENCY in American history.
Kevin says
When will folks see that Obama is the enemy of freedom and a friend of murderous Islam. He tried to bankrupt the US by tacking on another 11.5 Trillion dollar debt. He packed on more debt than all previous presidents combined. Sad.
E. Dillon says
Give Obama the finger and try him for treason, if found guilty stone him or behead him in the Muslim tradition. And lets leave out all the attorney money grabbing appeals. It would be a waste of time and TAX PAYER MONRY.
Gordon Miller says
Why doesn’t our AG Sessions step in now and take some legal action? Could it be that Trump appointed a loyal weakling?