The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook - Polidicks

[URL="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/"]https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/[/URL] [QUOTE]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. 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. 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. One Obama-era Treasury official, Katherine Bauer, in little-noticed written testimony presented last February to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, acknowledged that “under the Obama administration … these [Hezbollah-related] investigations were tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.”[/QUOTE] Super long but interesting article about how Obama let Hezbollah continue terror and drug operations in order for the Iran deal to pass

Can't wait for the house and senate to force their russia probes closed to open up probes into this burning topic. Ya its important to know the context behind the iran deal but at least we don't have two nuclear armed states causing two separate crisises right now

[media]https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/942622038547505152[/media] [media]https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/942634200686927872[/media] Thread continues. This story seems like a distraction move to get the right fired up about Obama.

Dude, even the page itself is fucking suggestive as fuck.

[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52988360]Thread continues. This story seems like a distraction move to get the right fired up about Obama.[/QUOTE] Do they even need a reason? Their perpetually fired up about Obama, doesn't really matter what reason they pick.