Anyone ever heard of a violation of the 1799 Logan Act? It was good enough for General Kelly but not for Lurch??? TM ********* By Natalia Mittelstadt, May 1, 2021
"The frustration we had is that it was basically acknowledged by everybody and nobody cared about it," said the former National Security Council chief of staff Keith Kellogg.
The intelligence community was aware of John Kerry's meetings and exchanges of information with Iran during the Trump administration, retired Army Lt. General Keith Kellogg, former chief of staff for the National Security Council under President Trump, said Friday.
Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate and former secretary of state, has denied a recent report that he informed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that Israel targeted Iranian forces in Syria.
"Yeah, he did it all the time," said Kellogg, citing "the fact that he went over there, and the fact that he talked to Zarif to send a very, very strong counter-message to what we were trying to do out there."
Kellogg dismisses the defense that Kerry only shared information that was already public. "Well, you don't — even if it's public record, you never acknowledge classified operations," he said. "You don't. The press may get it, but you don't acknowledge it ... and now this is public record … you put it out there that that's what the Israelis were doing against the Iranians, that was all classified information. He would give it out to them and passes it on to them. And we read cables and we understand what's going on."
Kellogg explained how Kerry's unauthorized talks with Iran undercut Trump's diplomatic efforts.
"We talked about it in the Oval Office several times," he recalled. "It was not helpful what he was doing, because he was basically countering every message we were putting out there and trying to push them into some type of negotiation.
"I was in there many times when the president would reach out to people like Macron of France, he would reach out to Boris Johnson in U.K., and trying to get them to be an intermediary to talk to the Iranians to get us into some type of discussions. And we always had a pushback ... because we had people like Kerry out there talking to Zarif and others."
The Trump administration "knew what [Kerry] was doing," Kellogg said. "And the frustration we had is that it was basically acknowledged by everybody and nobody cared about it. I mean, if one of us had done that ..."
Michael Flynn was accused of the kind of actions now attributed to Kerry, and was a target of the Russian collusion investigation because of it, eventually being pardoned by President Trump.
The State Department declined a request for comment on the story.
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ZitatAnyone ever heard of a violation of the 1799 Logan Act? It was good enough for General Kelly but not for Lurch??? TM
One more example of the political corruption of our intelligence agencies and unequal application of the rule of law.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."- Fredric Bastiat
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.- Orwell
Remember that back in the day,John-Claude, while still an officer in the Navy Reserve, scooted over to Paris to meet with the North Vietnamese while we were negotiating the end of the Vietnam War. One of the hincky things in Lurch's past is his refusal to release his military records when he "reported for duty" " against "W". There's a theory that he got a less than honorable from the Navy because of his canoodling, since his discharge papers are dated on a different date. But he's never been held to account, then or now.
This scumbag has been thumbing his rather prominent proboscis at us fellow Vets, and his country ever since he mispronounced "Genghis Khan". And aside from his competence as a gigolo, his only accomplishment is sucking up to politicians and his intellectual superiors - houseplants.