In my coverage of Hillary’s nomination, I briefly noted that, “General John Allen, formerly of the Marine Corps, currently employed by Qatar’s pet Brookings think tank, insisted that only Hillary Clinton could defeat ISIS.”
Now the chickens have come home to roost.
Federal prosecutors have obtained records indicating that John R. Allen, the retired four-star Marine general who commanded all American troops in Afghanistan and now heads a venerable Washington think tank, secretly lobbied for the government of Qatar, lied to investigators about his role and tried to withhold evidence sought by a federal subpoena, according to court documents.
This took place during a crisis brought on by Qatar’s backing for the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.
Qatar was frantically trying to fend off a pressure campaign and economic embargo by its Persian Gulf rivals, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Rumors were circulating of a possible Saudi ground invasion, Mr. Trump appeared to back the Saudis and Emiratis, and both sides of the dispute were spending heavily to win favor in Washington.
During this period, General Allen met several times with American officials, including members of Congress and H.R. McMaster, the retired three-star general who was then the White House national security adviser. But the document, citing an interview of General McMaster by federal agents, stated that General Allen never informed General McMaster that he was being paid for his work.
The document also described efforts by General Allen to obstruct the investigation by lying to federal agents who asked him about his lobbying efforts during an interview last August, and withholding documents that showed his financial interest in his interactions with Qatari officials.
His time at Central Command helped him cement ties with senior Qatari leaders, including Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the country’s emir. In 2011, he was given a fourth star and took command of all American and NATO troops in Afghanistan until 2013.
Qatar was backing the Taliban so this is literally sleeping with the enemy.
In 2016, the year before the court document states his lobbying effort for Qatar began, General Allen was an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and he spoke that year at the Democratic National Convention.
He took over as the president of Brookings in November 2017.
Was there anyone involved with Hillary who wasn’t chasing foreign cash?
But this whole thing is a reminder that the Brookings Institute ought to be treated as a foreign influence operation.
“[T]there was a no-go zone when it came to criticizing the Qatari government,” Saleem Ali, who served as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar in 2009, told the New York Times.
Allen was also a key player in former Secretary of State Kerry’s push to impose a disastrous terror deal on Israel.
A U.S. State Department spokeswoman expressed outrage Tuesday over a news report in which Israel’s defense minister was said to have dismissed Secretary of State John Kerry’s Middle East peace push as naive and messianic.
“The remarks of the defense minister, if accurate, are offensive and inappropriate, especially given all that the United States is doing to support Israel’s security needs,” the spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said in a statement.
“Secretary Kerry and his team including General Allen have been working day and night to try to promote a secure peace for Israel because of the secretary’s deep concern for Israel’s future,” she added, referring to John R. Allen, the former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who has developed proposals for securing the West Bank if a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians can be negotiated.
“To question his motives and distort his proposals is not something we would expect from the defense minister of a close ally,” she said.
“The American plan for security arrangements that was shown to us isn’t worth the paper it was written on,” Mr. Yaalon, a former chief of Israel’s military, was quoted as saying. “It provides neither security nor peace.”
Of course it didn’t. It came from the enemy.
PMK says
Was there anyone involved with Hillary who wasn’t chasing foreign cash?
You can ask the same question about anyone and everyone involved in DC and get the same answer; of course not. Hillary isn’t the wicked witch of the west.. The DC metro area is a web of corruption. Think tanks, universities, foundations, global enterprises and many others rely, to some extent, on foreign funding. People with both foreign ties and connections to the US political elite are highly sought after. Those whom we used to refer to as ‘public servants’ monetize their ties.
General Flynn aside, the sad fact is that nothing happens to any of them, even for acts of malfeasance.
gravenimage says
Hillary Clinton Adviser In Charge of Afghan War Accused of Secretly Lobbying for Taliban Backers
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Just horrifying if accurate.
mortimer says
What a bunch of sell-outs and traitors! How demoralizing when those in positions of public trust betray their country!
The whole truth about Hill-liary’s treachery may never be known and much of it will only come out after she dies. No one wants to be part of the CLINTON DEATH PARADE which seems to grow all the time.
Glynnda J White says
For those frustrated with the length of time it’s taking to nail the deep/dark government, here is an indicator of why….this stuff goes so much deeper than we want to know….so many of us would just like to believe that Super Prez could just be put back into office and everything would be okay. The effort to ruin our economy, keep us trapped in our own home, empty our grocery shelves…..I believe all of this is being done to hide what the evil elite have been involved in. They know their days are numbered I think and they are desperate.
This general is in deep doo doo. I can only hope that this once great warrior has turned on these reptiles and is spilling his guts..and let’s also hope that his family is under deep protection…I have to wonder if he was blackmailed into doing this or if he dove into the cesspool willingly….so sad
Alec Rawls says
Little Red Lying Hood before she became Biden’s spokes-bitc#. She’s got to be one of the most dead-faced liars in history. What an abomination.
OLD GUY says
The Islamic States have been buying their way into American society with the billions of oil dollars they drag in annually. Our media, education system and government officials are being flooded with Middle East cash and business deals. Think Tanks I think are a good way to funnel cash to buy influence in political circles. It appears that most of our political leaders like Hillary are chasing MONEY at the expense of the American citizens. We are being SOLD OUT.