Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department repeatedly declined to fully go after the terror group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of girls.
Josh Rogin
The Daily Beast
5/7/2014
The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing the al Qaeda-linked militant group Boko Haram on its official list of foreign terrorist organizations for two years. And now, lawmakers and former U.S. officials are saying that the decision may have hampered the American government’s ability to confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by abducting hundreds of innocent girls…
….On Wednesday, Clinton said that the abduction of the girls by Boko Haram was “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of Nigeria.” Clinton said that as Secretary of State she had numerous meetings with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and had urged the Nigerian government to do more on counterterrorism.
What Clinton didn’t mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen senators and congressmen.
“The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didn’t use. And nobody can say she wasn’t urged to do it. It’s gross hypocrisy,” said a former senior U.S. official who was involved in the debate…
The entire article is at The Daily Beast.
Related: Expert Warns of America’s Coming ‘Arab Winter’
…On the anniversary of the Boston marathon bombing, Spencer has released his newest book, Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About The War We’re In.
Spencer says the same radical Islamic groups that caused the “Arab Spring” in the Middle East are at work in America right now, exposing Americans to even more threats of jihad.
He warns that the country is shockingly unequipped to face this threat.
MSNBC Host: Don’t Cross The Clintons, Otherwise a Door in The Floor Opens Up (video)
…“I think there’s been a lot of reporting about the lists they keep,” said Wagner of the Clintons. “And we are led to believe that there is this Clinton Industrial Complex where names are kept, sins are recorded,” Wagner responded.
“That’s true,” others on set agreed.
Update: Flashback- Clinton: “Poverty” Behind Boko Haram, ‘Not Radical Islam’
What, in hindsight, can be only described as an obtuse and extremely wrong statement, former President Bill Clinton stated in 2013 that the terrorist organization Boko Haram acts out of poverty, not because of religious fever.
Mr. Clinton not only stated that poverty was the cause, but that specifically, Islam and religion could not be blamed in any way…
