Thank Kerry & Co for Iran Nukes

Remember when the Obama administration said it would “vigorously enforce” sanctions against Iran due to its nuclear program?

The Obama-Biden administration began its Joint Plan of Action, which served as the negotiating process for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, that was signed by then-President Obama in 2015. At the time, Obama said broader sanctions would remain in place, which the administration would “continue to enforce… vigorously.”

Well, whistleblowers have contacted Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson with some interesting allegations.

But Grassley and Johnson received unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures which they say show that “while the Obama-Biden administration publicly committed to ‘preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons by raising the cost of Iran’s defiance of the international community,’ then-Secretary of State John Kerry actively interfered with the Federal Bureau of Investigation executing arrest warrants on individuals in the U.S. illegally supporting Iranian efforts, including financial efforts, to develop weapons of mass destruction and its ballistic missile program.”

The records, according to the senators, show that the Justice Department and FBI leadership, including then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey “failed to take the necessary steps to stop Kerry’s obstructive efforts against law enforcement.”

One email — an unclassified FBI email from August 25, 2017 — detailed at least eight instances connected to the Iran nuclear deal where “the FBI/DOJ/USG could have moved forward with the cases but the State Department chose to block them.”

Sounds like a case where a full investigation is warranted… and quickly. “Pallets of cash” also comes to mind – their fundraising seems to have been effective,

According to the records, in six of these instances, the FBI “lost the opportunity to arrest the main subject.”

The email says that one of the subjects the FBI was unable to arrest was “on the Terrorism Watch List” and another “returned to Iran.”

The email further says that the State Department “blocked” one planned FBI arrest while the subject was “mid-flight and the subject was forced to leave the US immediately upon arrival.”

The email also claims at least two targets were arrested only after “State lifted their block…since the new [Trump] Administration took office.”

“These warnings about the failure to arrest known Iranians subject to arrest warrants occurred as early as 2015 and was allegedly done due to political reasons,” Grassley wrote.

A July 2015 email shows “concerns were raised about stand down orders to arrest criminal Iranians.”

FBI official to an LA field office FBI official with subject line “HQ Support.”

An April 28, 2016 email states: “State has been blocking FBI actions where State has had a role for approval or concurrence—visas, lure ops primarily. We have prepared a package of several cases blocked by State and have been working it up the FBI/DOJ/State chain over the past 6 months.”

“The records provided to our office show that the Obama/Biden administration’s State Department, under the leadership of John Kerry, actively and persistently interfered with FBI operations pertaining to lawful arrests of known terrorists, members of Iranian proliferation networks, and other criminals providing material support for Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs,” Grassley and Johnson wrote.  Fox News

Eight times. Let that sink in – if “once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action”…I would suggest that eight times is another level. Rhymes with “reason”, no?

Credit to Jeff LPH on this one.

Category: Democrats, Foreign Policy, John Kerry, None