{"id":81580,"date":"2022-05-28T01:47:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T06:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81580"},"modified":"2022-05-28T01:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T06:47:47","slug":"81580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81580","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF<br \/>\nThis is a clear violation of the Logan Act, which criminalizes unauthorized American citizens from negotiating with foreign governments regarding disputes between the two countries. This is what Democrats\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2020\/07\/08\/new-evidence-shows-doj-was-skeptical-of-fbis-case-against-michael-flynn-n617122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn of violating<\/a>\u00a0when he was Trump\u2019s incoming National Security Advisor. Flynn did nothing wrong, but Kerry or any other former-Obama official without authority to be negotiating with Iran absolutely did. In fact, some would call it treason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2022\/05\/27\/hey-look-proof-former-obama-admin-officials-committed-treason-under-trump-n1601428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hey Look! Proof Former Obama Admin Officials Committed Treason Under Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s impossible to say that I\u2019m shocked by the latest bombshell courtesy of the American Center for Law &amp; Justice (ACLJ).<\/p>\n<p>According to a memo obtained by ACLJ via a FOIA lawsuit, several Obama administration officials held secret meetings with Iran during Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a shocking finding from our FOIA lawsuit, we unearthed that former Obama-Biden officials were conducting secret meetings with Iran during the time that President Trump was in office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s outrageous &amp; shocking. Read our article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/COJXwygRRB\">https:\/\/t.co\/COJXwygRRB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jay Sekulow (@JaySekulow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaySekulow\/status\/1529918043270393856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry\u2019s efforts to undermine Trump by negotiating with Iran as Trump was working towards pulling out of the nuclear deal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/nation\/2018\/05\/04\/kerry-quietly-seeking-salvage-iran-deal-helped-craft\/2fTkGON7xvaNbO0YbHECUL\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been known for years.<\/a>\u00a0But the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.aclj.org\/pdf\/Memo%20-%20Pages%20from%20FL-2021-00270%20May%202022%20Production%5B34%5D.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a>\u00a0obtained by the ALCJ is from October 2018, titled \u201cNotes From \u2018Iran and the US: An Off-the-Record Conversation with Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif.\u201d has never been seen before now, and shows that Kerry wasn\u2019t the one working to undermine Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to this memo, the previously unreported \u2018off-the-record meeting\u2019 took place at the \u2018Iranian Ambassador\u2019s Residence, NYC,\u2019 on October 4, 2018 \u2013 just days after major media coverage of Kerry\u2019s admission of the secret efforts,\u201d explains ACLJ Executive Director Jordan Sekulow. \u201cThe memo we unearthed contains notes on the former U.S. diplomats\u2019 conversation with Zarif and his responses \u201cto questions posed by a group of US former ambassadors and policy analysts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe newly obtained memo, regarding the secret meeting between [Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad] Zarif and these former U.S. officials, included discussions of nuclear weapons, potential prisoner swaps, Afghanistan withdrawal and negotiations with the Taliban, Houthi rebels, Syria, Suleimani\u2019s popularity in Iran, and the \u2018region in turmoil,&#8217;\u201d Sekulow continues. \u201cThis is precisely why we sent this FOIA request: to uncover actions of then-former U.S. diplomats \u2013 those who worked for the Obama-Biden Administration but who then went to work undermining President Trump and the core policies he campaigned on and succeeded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Former Secretary of State] Kerry himself admitted his part in this scheme,\u201d Sekulow added. \u201cAnd here we obtained a memo showing just that: an off-the-record meeting between Zarif and \u2018former\u2019 U.S. diplomats right in the middle of the Trump Administration and during the time President Trump was working through the aftermath of withdrawing the United States from the farce known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) \u2013 the Iran nuclear deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a clear violation of the Logan Act, which criminalizes unauthorized American citizens from negotiating with foreign governments regarding disputes between the two countries. This is what Democrats\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2020\/07\/08\/new-evidence-shows-doj-was-skeptical-of-fbis-case-against-michael-flynn-n617122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn of violating<\/a>\u00a0when he was Trump\u2019s incoming National Security Advisor. Flynn did nothing wrong, but Kerry or any other former-Obama official without authority to be negotiating with Iran absolutely did. In fact, some would call it treason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUF This is a clear violation of the Logan Act, which criminalizes unauthorized American citizens from negotiating with foreign governments regarding disputes between the two countries. This is what Democrats\u00a0accused Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn of violating\u00a0when he was Trump\u2019s incoming National Security Advisor. Flynn did nothing wrong, but Kerry or any other former-Obama official without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81581,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81580\/revisions\/81581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}