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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2015/07/emails-show-secretary-clinton-disobeyed-obama-policy-and-continued-fundClinton Asked Lanny Davis, Longtime Clinton Operative and Lobbyist for Pro-Coup Honduran Businesses, to Arrange Phone Meeting with Coup Dictator
Buried in the latest trove of Hillary Clinton emails made public last week are some missives that shed new light on the former Secretary of States role in seemingly undermining President Barack Obamas policy in dealing with the 2009 coup détat in Honduras.
The official emails recently made public by the State Department more than 3,000 pages worth were sent or received primarily in 2009 through Clintons private email account via an email server set up outside the governments system and used to conduct official business.
One email exchange discovered in the recently released batch of State Department communications reveals that Clinton personally signed off on continuing the flow of US funds to the putsch regime in Honduras in the fall of 2009 even as the White House was telling the world that such aid had been suspended.
Another email exchange involving Clinton shows that she turned to a lobbyist employed by Honduran business interests suspected of orchestrating the coup to get access to the Roberto Micheletti, the de facto president of the putsch regime. Micheletti assumed power after the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was removed from office at gunpoint on June 28, 2009.
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)I'm infuriated.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)At least seven regime changes, and a bunch more attempted in 2009-12. A prelude to what is to come.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)or was it necessary due to relationships with other government agencies, and what was Obama's attitude, if we can venture a guess?
leveymg
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The opposition in the Syrian civil war was armed, trained and directed by Qatar with the blessings of Washington -- moving weapons and Jihadis from Libya to Syria -- beginning in 2011. That was a joint CIA-State operation approved through the NSC pursuant to a pair of Presidential findings early that year.
But, we have to go back further to find the origins of the uprising. The Syrian exile groups who carried out the first stage of the uprising were supported, trained and directed by agencies of the governments of the US, UK, France, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia -- and that began years before 2011. The State Dept had multiple programs directed at Syrian exile groups for at least five years. Of course, the covert CIA activities with the opposition in Syria are still classified, but an inside glimpse of this was provided through the Wikileaks release of State Department cables several years ago.
The State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables.
The London-based satellite channel, Barada TV, began broadcasting in April 2009 but has ramped up operations to cover the mass protests in Syria as part of a long-standing campaign to overthrow the country's autocratic leader, Bashar al-Assad. Human rights groups say scores of people have been killed by Assad's security forces since the demonstrations began March 18; Syria has blamed the violence on "armed gangs."
Barada TV is closely affiliated with the Movement for Justice and Development, a London-based network of Syrian exiles. Classified U.S. diplomatic cables show that the State Department has funneled as much as $6 million to the group since 2006 to operate the satellite channel and finance other activities inside Syria. The channel is named after the Barada River, which courses through the heart of Damascus, the Syrian capital.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-us-secretly-backed-syria-opposition/
Without the regime change patronage of Madame Secretary and Director Petraeus, there would be no Syrian and Libyan refugee influx, and no ISIS anyone outside the Defense Intelligence Agency ever heard of.