{"id":76633,"date":"2017-12-18T11:38:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76633"},"modified":"2017-12-18T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:38:43","slug":"obama-justice-department-helped-hezbollah-smuggle-coke-into-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76633","title":{"rendered":"Obama Justice Department helped Hezbollah smuggle Coke into US"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Politico<\/a>, the Drug Enforcement Agency built a case against Iran’s client Hezbollah in regards to their efforts to smuggle cocaine into the United States and smuggle the resulting profits back to Iran. The Operation named Project Cassandra was met with roadblocks from the Department of Justice;<\/p>\n

Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah\u2019s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.<\/p>\n

They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.<\/p>\n

But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah\u2019s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Obama administration didn’t want to upset their nuclear deal with Iran. That was coupled with a desire to integrate the terrorist organization Hezbollah into the political structure of Lebanon.<\/p>\n

From the UK’s Daily Mail<\/a>;<\/p>\n

DEA agents claim the Obama administration stopped them arresting key figures linked to Hezbollah as an agreement on the Iran nuclear deal approached – and scrapped Project Cassandra entirely once the terms were agreed in 2015. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arming Mexican drug cartels, funding the Iranian nuclear program and protection for drug kingpins in Hezbollah. At what point do we admit that the Obama Administration was a criminal enterprise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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