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"Obama’s hidden Iran deal giveaway
- By dropping charges against major arms targets, the administration infuriated Justice Department officials — and undermined its own counter-proliferation task forces."
In this article the author goes in great detail to provide the specifics of the prisoner release agreement and the specifics about who these Iranians were whose criminal charges were dropped and their release.
Right from the start many Americans were furious when they heard Obama had agreed to release / released Iranians being held by the US but refused to even ASK the Iranians for the release of US hostages, especially when Obama and the US had 'all the leverage in the world'. When Americans learn exactly who these Iranians are and how much of an impact they have not only on Iran's nuclear weapons program but also the negative impact they have on the US's ability to combat Iran's nuclear proliferation they should become much, much angrier.
To make a long story (below) short, the summary is this:
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans in many different agencies spent years - thousands of hours - working on counter nuclear proliferation, working cases, attempting to get their hands on Iranian smugglers, thieves, scientists, operatives, etc in an effort to counter Iran's nuclear program and advance towards acquiring nuclear weapons. One such DOJ rep said the US had been trying to 'get in' for years and still only had bits and pieces of information....until they picked up a BIG TIME Iranian nuclear program insider.
Seyed Abolfazl Shahab Jamili was / is a suspected Iranian nuclear procurement agent who had been charged with being part of a conspiracy that from 2005 to 2012 procured thousands of parts with nuclear applications for Iran via China. That included hundreds of U.S.-made sensors for the uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran whose progress had prompted the nuclear deal talks in the first place. The US also held his China-based associate, Sahai Cheng.
Having these two in US hands finally opened the door to learning everything about Iran's nuclear program and coming up with programs / ops to counter Iran's nuclear proliferation....
Except as part of Barry's personal, Un-Constitutional Treaty, Iran asked for Iranians to be held to be returned, to including Jamil...and Obama handed him over...without ever asking anything in return - not even our US citizens being held by Iran.
““This has erased literally years — many years — of hard work, and important cases that can be used to build toward other cases and even bigger players in Iran’s nuclear and conventional weapons programs,” said former Justice Department counterproliferation prosecutor David Locke Hall, adding that the swap demolished the deterrent effect that the arrests and convictions may have had.
Even though these men’s crimes posed a direct threat to U.S. national security, the [Obama] administration has essentially told them (agents who did all the work to capture Jamil-Cheng) their efforts have produced nothing more than political capital that can be traded away when politically expedient.”
All in all charges were dropped against 14 Iranians and they were returned to Iran.
"When federal prosecutors and agents learned the true extent of the releases, many were shocked and angry. Some had spent years, if not decades, working to penetrate the global proliferation networks that allowed Iranian arms traders both to obtain crucial materials for Tehran’s illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs and, in some cases, to provide dangerous materials to other countries.
“They didn’t just dismiss a bunch of innocent business guys,” said one former federal law enforcement supervisor centrally involved in the hunt for Iranian arms traffickers and nuclear smugglers. “And then they didn’t give a full story of it.”
As a result of the prisoner release "key enforcement efforts are in limbo as the result of stalled or stymied investigations and prosecutions, and the trail of some high-value targets has gone cold".
All of this was done in the utmost secrecy - Only a 'handful' of people were told about this deal until it had been made.
“This is a scandal,” she said. “The cases bear all the hallmarks of exactly the kinds of national security threats we’re still going after. It’s stunning and hard to understand why we would do this.”
The article this link leads to is a well-written, thorough article on the details of the prisoner release, what it took to capture these prisoners, what holding them meant to and how much their release damaged / set back Iranian counter nuclear proliferation efforts. It is a little lengthy but worth the read.
Obama’s hidden Iran deal giveaway
- By dropping charges against major arms targets, the administration infuriated Justice Department officials — and undermined its own counter-proliferation task forces."
In this article the author goes in great detail to provide the specifics of the prisoner release agreement and the specifics about who these Iranians were whose criminal charges were dropped and their release.
Right from the start many Americans were furious when they heard Obama had agreed to release / released Iranians being held by the US but refused to even ASK the Iranians for the release of US hostages, especially when Obama and the US had 'all the leverage in the world'. When Americans learn exactly who these Iranians are and how much of an impact they have not only on Iran's nuclear weapons program but also the negative impact they have on the US's ability to combat Iran's nuclear proliferation they should become much, much angrier.
To make a long story (below) short, the summary is this:
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Americans in many different agencies spent years - thousands of hours - working on counter nuclear proliferation, working cases, attempting to get their hands on Iranian smugglers, thieves, scientists, operatives, etc in an effort to counter Iran's nuclear program and advance towards acquiring nuclear weapons. One such DOJ rep said the US had been trying to 'get in' for years and still only had bits and pieces of information....until they picked up a BIG TIME Iranian nuclear program insider.
Seyed Abolfazl Shahab Jamili was / is a suspected Iranian nuclear procurement agent who had been charged with being part of a conspiracy that from 2005 to 2012 procured thousands of parts with nuclear applications for Iran via China. That included hundreds of U.S.-made sensors for the uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran whose progress had prompted the nuclear deal talks in the first place. The US also held his China-based associate, Sahai Cheng.
Having these two in US hands finally opened the door to learning everything about Iran's nuclear program and coming up with programs / ops to counter Iran's nuclear proliferation....
Except as part of Barry's personal, Un-Constitutional Treaty, Iran asked for Iranians to be held to be returned, to including Jamil...and Obama handed him over...without ever asking anything in return - not even our US citizens being held by Iran.
““This has erased literally years — many years — of hard work, and important cases that can be used to build toward other cases and even bigger players in Iran’s nuclear and conventional weapons programs,” said former Justice Department counterproliferation prosecutor David Locke Hall, adding that the swap demolished the deterrent effect that the arrests and convictions may have had.
Even though these men’s crimes posed a direct threat to U.S. national security, the [Obama] administration has essentially told them (agents who did all the work to capture Jamil-Cheng) their efforts have produced nothing more than political capital that can be traded away when politically expedient.”
All in all charges were dropped against 14 Iranians and they were returned to Iran.
"When federal prosecutors and agents learned the true extent of the releases, many were shocked and angry. Some had spent years, if not decades, working to penetrate the global proliferation networks that allowed Iranian arms traders both to obtain crucial materials for Tehran’s illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs and, in some cases, to provide dangerous materials to other countries.
“They didn’t just dismiss a bunch of innocent business guys,” said one former federal law enforcement supervisor centrally involved in the hunt for Iranian arms traffickers and nuclear smugglers. “And then they didn’t give a full story of it.”
As a result of the prisoner release "key enforcement efforts are in limbo as the result of stalled or stymied investigations and prosecutions, and the trail of some high-value targets has gone cold".
All of this was done in the utmost secrecy - Only a 'handful' of people were told about this deal until it had been made.
“This is a scandal,” she said. “The cases bear all the hallmarks of exactly the kinds of national security threats we’re still going after. It’s stunning and hard to understand why we would do this.”
The article this link leads to is a well-written, thorough article on the details of the prisoner release, what it took to capture these prisoners, what holding them meant to and how much their release damaged / set back Iranian counter nuclear proliferation efforts. It is a little lengthy but worth the read.
Obama’s hidden Iran deal giveaway
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