MSM Networks Ignore Politico Bombshell About Obama Sabotaging Anti-Terror Efforts for Iran Deal By Debra Heine
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The mainstream media has had a lot of practice ignoring Obama-era scandals. It should come as no surprise that major news outlets continue to ignore Obama scandals surfacing after his presidency.
Politico published a bombshell report over the weekend, offering meticulous detail on how the Obama administration killed intelligence and law enforcement agency efforts to shut down Hezbollah’s narco-terror network. The motive? Obama protecting his precious Iran nuclear deal, which would be threatened if Iran’s pet terror organization suffered defeats at Obama’s hand.
According to Newsbusters, all three major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC), and the Spanish-language networks (Univision and Telemundo) blacked out the incredible scandal. CNN and MSNBC appear to have ignored it as well.
Fox News, of course, is covering the story: “A very serious charge tonight against the Obama administration. A bombshell report alleges the government deliberately sabotaged its own efforts to fight terrorist drug and money laundering operations,” declared Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Special Report before handing the report off to Doug McKelway.
“At what cost was the nuclear deal with Iran reached?” McKelway asked. “In an effort to reach the agreement, [the Obama administration] drastically curtailed efforts to interdict cocaine shipments into the U.S. by Hezbollah, a terrorist organization closely allied with Iran.”
“In 2016, a DEA official told a congressional panel that Operation Cassandra, a massive law-enforcement effort to stop the Hezbollah drug trade, was inexplicably curtailed,” McKelway added.
Via Newsbusters:
In a clip played by McKelway, former DEA Chief of Operations Michael Braun testified before Congress that “for some unknown reason, we seem to have missed out on one opportunity after another. We seem to have forgotten about the importance of disrupting the supply chain.”
Politico spoke with a former CIA officer who confirmed that the Obama administration’s efforts to stifle their investigation were tied to directly to the nuclear deal with Iran:
DEA operations in the Middle East were shut down repeatedly due to political sensitivities, especially in Lebanon, according to one former CIA officer working in the region. He said pressure from the White House also prompted the CIA to declare “a moratorium” on covert operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, too, for a time, after the administration received complaints from Iranian negotiators.
“[Obama] really, really, really wanted the deal,” the CIA officer added. CONTINUE AT SITE
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