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2017-06-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Obama Admin ‘Systematically Disbanded' Units Investigating Iran's Terrorism Financing Networks

[Free Beacon] The Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement investigative units across the federal government focused on disrupting Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism financing networks out of concern the work could cause friction with Iranian officials and scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a former U.S. official who spent decades dismantling terrorist financial networks.

David Asher, who previously served as an adviser to Gen. John Allen at the Defense and State Departments, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday that top officials across several key law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement activities targeting the terrorism financing operations of Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela in the lead-up to and during the nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

"Senior leadership, presiding, directing, and overseeing various sections [of these agencies] and portions of the U.S. intelligence community systematically disbanded any internal or external stakeholder action that threatened to derail the administration's policy agenda focused on Iran," he testified.

Asher now serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Illicit Finance and is an adjunct fellow at the Center for New American Security, two national security think tanks.

He attributed the motivation for decisions to dismantle the investigative units to "concerns about interfering with the Iran deal," a reference to the nuclear deal forged between the U.S., five other world powers, and Iran during the final years of the Obama administration.

As a result, "several top cops" retired and the U.S. government lost their years of expertise.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 ValJar's influence

Posted by Frank G 2017-06-09 09:01|| 2017-06-09 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm afraid this might be jut the tip of the iceberg concerning Barack Obama's administration support of the Terrorist nation Iran and terrorists in general.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-06-09 09:09|| 2017-06-09 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 ValJar, the most successful foreign agent in US history. The breadth of her actions to aid Iran is staggering, yet virtually invisible to the investigative geniuses of the MSM. Why is that?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-06-09 11:22|| 2017-06-09 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Honestly, was Obama just a fool with Grima Wormtongue hadnling Iranian deals for him, or was in actively undermining US policy because he felt Iran wasn't a threat (or wouldn't be if treated nicely).

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-06-09 15:00|| 2017-06-09 15:00|| Front Page Top

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