State Department rebuffs call for Clinton intervention in Haiti case

[madmom]

Source: CNN

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not get directly involved in the case of the 10 Americans detained in Haiti on child abduction charges, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday.

"It would be highly unusual for the secretary of state to intervene in a case involving the judicial process of another country," spokesman P.J. Crowley said in an off-camera question-and-answer session.

Reginald Brown -- the Washington lawyer who represents one of the detained Americans -- sent a letter to Clinton on Tuesday asking her to personally intervene with Haitian authorities

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[Jennicut]

1. Good, because they don't deserve her help.

They manipulated the people there to give their children up. Then they were arrogant about the proper paperwork needed.

[JI7]

2. GOOD

[Warpy]

3. GOOD

She doesn't need to be involved in this stinker of a case, it's a no win situation.

Clearly these people were taking advantage of a disaster to circumvent Haiti's very strict adoption laws. Clearly their ultimate goal was a resort combined with an adoption mill that could only have been satisfied by some sort of human trafficking. They needed to be stopped. Other such outfits are up and running elsewhere in the third world. There is ample reason to believe these people would have followed the same pattern.

In Jebus's name of course, and with the very best of intentions as they raked in the loot from people staying at the resort to be near the children they were using as bait.

I am delighted they were stopped and I trust the Haitians will know what to do with them without our interference.

[havocmom]

4. Law breakers face consequenses for actions. Not a job for Sec of State

Damn whiners anyway, they think she is just sitting by the phone in case some fundy clowns need her to make bail for them? Time for them to deal with reality.

[Wizard777]

5. Good! They were warned and did it any way.

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. AND this is a sad distraction from the real need that continues there. PIH, Oxfam, and other

real helping agencies still need our attention and $$.

donate link:

https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/donate

[SlingBlade]

7. Good. Send a message to these religious freaks

Too many are being used and abused by these assholes.
Sure their just foot soldiers, But they begin the real work of exploitation.

[karynnj]

8. Good, it would be arrogant and wrong for the US to bully Haiti

The Haitian courts will sort out the level of guilt of the various people. The state department likely has guidelines of what they can routinely do for US citizens arrested abroad. They should be followed and definitely no high level person should be involved.

If you watched Larry King yesterday, he asked about this. Michelle was fantastic - ignoring the Idahoans completely speaking of the tragedy and that it will take years of efforts to help Haiti. He tried several times to focus it on the 10, she obliquely answered it by saying that all the agencies had to work hard to insure that they don't break up families - even pointing out that some families might temporarily place kids in orphanages with the intent to reclaim them when they have a home AND they should not be taken out of the country.

[hayu_lol]

9. Missionaries ought to be kept out of disaster areas...

for an extended period of time. There were cases in Haiti where missionary groups went in, pockets full of cash to buy food/water/etc. but carrying for themselves no clothing, no tents/shelter/no food/no water. In other words, they had to themselves be cared for by an overburdened professional crew trying to sort out a very bad disaster.

They, for the most part, have no place in Haiti or any other disaster area.

As far as the crying bunch sitting in jail...they are getting what they deserved. How many black and French-speaking kids would have ended up in Idaho anyway?

Haiti is also a predominantly Catholic country.