Fox EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Jeff Sessions is launching a review of a law enforcement initiative called Project Cassandra after an investigative report was published this week claiming the Obama administration gave a free pass to Hezbollah’s drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations to help ensure the Iran nuclear deal would stay on track.
The Justice Department said in a statement to Fox News that Sessions on Friday directed a review of prior Drug Enforcement Administration investigations “to evaluate allegations that certain matters were not properly prosecuted and to ensure all matters are appropriately handled.”
“While I am hopeful that there were no barriers constructed by the last administration to allowing DEA agents to fully bring all appropriate cases under Project Cassandra, this is a significant issue for the protection of Americans,” Sessions said in a written statement. “We will review these matters and give full support to investigations of violent drug trafficking organizations.”
According to a bombshell exposé in Politico on Sunday, an elaborate campaign led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, known as Project Cassandra, targeted the Lebanese militant group’s criminal activities.
“We will review these matters and give full support to investigations of violent drug trafficking organizations”
But when Project Cassandra leaders, who were working out of a DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, Obama Justice and Treasury Department officials delayed, hindered or rejected their requests, according to Politico.
“Protecting our citizens from terrorist organizations and combatting the devastating drug crisis gripping our nation are two of the Justice Department’s top priorities,” Sessions said. “Operations designed to investigate and prosecute terrorist organizations that are also fueling that drug crisis must be paramount in this administration.”
DOJ officials told Fox News the review could lead to new prosecutions of people affiliated with Hezbollah. It could also lead to an Inspector General investigation of personnel matters relating to the project.
“The DEA has worked tirelessly on this front,” Sessions said. “I am committed to giving our hard working and dedicated DEA agents all the tools that they need to allow them to shut down these drug rings.”
Sessions added, “The Department of Justice is absolutely committed to investigating and prosecuting international drug trafficking organizations and with the assistance of our DEA and FBI agents we will leave no stone unturned as we work to making America safer.”
REPUBLICANS DEMAND ANSWERS OVER CLAIMS OBAMA GAVE HEZBOLLAH A PASS
Since the report surfaced, a number of Republican lawmakers have demanded answers about the allegations. Meanwhile, former Obama administration officials have broadly dismissed the allegations as false.
“There are many reasonable critiques of Obama’s foreign policy,” former Obama official Tommy Vietor tweeted. “The idea that he was soft on Hezbollah is not one of them. The story is so manufactured out of thin air that it’s hard to push back except to say that it’s a figment of the imagination of two very flawed sources.”
ht/ all too much
8 FUCKING YEARS!!!!! 2-TERM DISASTER!!!!!
GO EL TRUMPO!!!!! MAKE ‘EM FEEL IT!!!!!
“Lock THEM Up!”
they’re getting scared … very scared
I have a dream…
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ea-3FUfNXSA/UZPWfOR-63I/AAAAAAAAR8I/hQizeDJ0F6Q/s400/TeamObamaInJail.jpg
Hang Em High!!
Lock ’em up!
They’ve broken so many laws Cousin Vinny would be able to get a conviction on one with a blindfold and a dart!
Lock obama and Hillary in the same cell like a death match
When Joe Biden gets that smirk slapped off his face (I’ll believe it when I see it),
THAT will be a Big F-….n Deal !
I see a lot of indictments in 2018. 2017 was the year of rooting them out, the year of starting to replace people in all the agencies and of beginning investigations. 2018 will be the year where some of those investigations become criminal cases.
Goddamn… It would be the greatest act of justice in the history of mankind of that filthy communist traitor got his ass reamed in federal prison.
Obama can build his “Legacy Library” in his prison cell, over the rest of his lifetime, using toothpicks. He just may finish it before he croaks, being that he would only get 3 toothpicks per day to use.
You could just about can just about lock up his whole damned administration, what a den of vipers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z0VMI67a4Y
related FYI
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/943903828067409920.html
and
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/943786618002878464.html
And there is more.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/23/new-report-was-fbi-chief-legal-counsel-james-baker-captured-by-new-doj-leak-task-force/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
worst of all for him he won’t be able to hit up the Clintons or thier money laundering foundation for the money to pay for his lawyer either. that money me be frozen like a block of Ice. check out the executive order Trump issued.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/
From the executive order “(1) corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery; or
(2) the transfer or the facilitation of the transfer of the proceeds of corruption;”
looks like Bill and Hillary are really broke now
‘New’ chant? I’ve always said obama’s presidential library looks like a mausoleum, and as such a perfect choice for his legacy.
Holder is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to a human rodent hybrid. The wispy mustache under that elongated snout and beady eyes. I’d love to see the days of him scurrying around Washington come to an end with a long prison term.
Much wishful thinking here…. I will be pleasantly surprised if anyone (of note) is indicted…..
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Sessions’ sure talks a mean game just after nappy time.