Pompeo Tears Into John Kerry Over Iran Meetings: "Unheard Of" Level Of Undermining White House

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#1 | Pompeo Tears Into John Kerry Over Iran Meetings: "Unheard Of" Level Of Undermining White House datum

Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:48 pm

by Tyler Durden, 09/14/2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed John Kerry over the latter's admission earlier this week that he met with top Iranian officials "three or four times" since Trump took office.

Pompeo called Kerry's meetings which took place outside of authorized diplomatic channels and without White House knowledge "unseemly and unprecedented" and further described the former Obama secretary of state's actions as "beyond inappropriate" in statements made today at a State Department press briefing.

Adding fuel to the controversy after a Thursday evening tweet by President Trump which also charged Kerry with "illegal meetings" that served to "undercut" US policy, Pompeo followed with a personal anecdote, saying he personally witnessed Kerry engaged in improper contact with Iranian officials and former Obama-era nuclear negotiators in Munich, Germany.

"I saw him in Munich with my own eyes, with Moniz and Wendy Sherman" Pompeo said, in reference to former Obama Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and chief nuclear deal negotiator Wendy Sherman.

�What Secretary Kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented,� Pompeo told reporters at the press conference in Washington. �This is a former secretary of state engaged with the world�s largest state sponsor of terrorism.�

He accused Kerry of �actively undermining U.S. policy� by going behind Trump's back. �It is beyond inappropriate,� he added.

The controversy was reignited this week (following prior accusations from last Spring) when former secretary of state Kerry was asked point blank during a Wednesday radio interview about his rumored meetings with top Iran officials in which Kerry admitted, "I think I've seen him three or four times," but attempted to claim he was not trying to "coach" Iran on how to restart the Iran nuclear deal after Trump pulled out last May.

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John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!

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Kerry is of course now a private citizen out of government but holds significant clout and influence with the Iran FM as the two hammered out the details of the JCPOA brokered under President Obama in the first place. Conservative pundits have long cast his actions as a violation of the Logan Act.

He responded to Trump's accusations late in the day Friday, via Twitter, while not forgetting of course to hawk is new book

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Mr. President, you should be more worried about Paul Manafort meeting with Robert Mueller than me meeting with Iran's FM. But if you want to learn something about the nuclear agreement that made the world safer, buy my new book, Every Day Is Extra: https://amzn.to/2xhmhQG

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John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!

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Also on the same day as the Wednesday Hugh Hewitt Show admissions, former Secretary of State Kerry appeared on FOX and was interviewed by Dana Perino.

"I think everybody in the world is sitting around talking about waiting out President Trump," Kerry said to Perino. "You've got our allies, remarkably � the people that we've worked with the closest through the years � who are sitting there saying, 'What's next?'" Kerry added.
During Pompeo's Friday comments addressing the matter, he concluded of the Kerry Iran meetings, "I will leave legal questions for others".

It appears this was in echo of Trump's Thursday evening tweet which suggested the potential for legal inquiry: "He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act?" Trump stated rhetorically.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-1...vel-undermining

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#2 | RE: Pompeo Tears Into John Kerry Over Iran Meetings: "Unheard Of" Level Of Undermining White House datum

Sun Sep 16, 2018 2:07 am

The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S. It was intended to prevent the undermining of the government's position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

Lurch is so obviously in violation it hurts my teeth. But Liberals never pay or their misdeeds. Never.

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#3 | RE: Pompeo Tears Into John Kerry Over Iran Meetings: "Unheard Of" Level Of Undermining White House datum

Sun Sep 16, 2018 2:08 am

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#4 | RE: Pompeo Tears Into John Kerry Over Iran Meetings: "Unheard Of" Level Of Undermining White House datum

Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:31 pm

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #3
The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments having a dispute with the U.S. It was intended to prevent the undermining of the government's position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

Lurch is so obviously in violation it hurts my teeth. But Liberals never pay or their misdeeds. Never.

They seem to be automatically issued a teflon cloak

Illegitimi non Carborundum

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it - Orwell

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#5 | RE: Pompeo Tears Into John Kerry Over Iran Meetings: "Unheard Of" Level Of Undermining White House datum

Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:31 am

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2

Lurch is so obviously in violation it hurts my teeth. But Liberals never pay or their misdeeds. Never.

Not since the Clintons began to lie and skate on ALL their many offenses. Their shameless obfuscation over the decades, changed America's attitude toward crime.

Tawdry details here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...ortunity-f.html

And then Obama lived to stack the courts, the FBI and the DOJ with his "see no evil" monkeys who lived to thwart the wheels of justice and guide all decisions toward their desired goals.