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flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
Thu Sep 17, 2015, 05:39 PM Sep 2015

Clinton, Lanny Davis and Funding for the Honduran Coup

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2015/07/emails-show-secretary-clinton-disobeyed-obama-policy-and-continued-fund

Clinton 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 State’s role in seemingly undermining President Barack Obama’s policy in dealing with the 2009 coup d’état 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 Clinton’s private email account — via an email server set up outside the government’s 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.
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Clinton, Lanny Davis and Funding for the Honduran Coup (Original Post) flamingdem Sep 2015 OP
It's just what I expected from her. It's what I suspected at the time. GoneFishin Sep 2015 #1
Me too. In spite of that flamingdem Sep 2015 #2
State was the sharp end of the stick in the new Cold War during Hillary's tenure. leveymg Sep 2015 #3
Do you think that was what she created flamingdem Sep 2015 #4
The record is clear on who within the Administration was pushing regime change in Libya and Syria leveymg Sep 2015 #5

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
3. State was the sharp end of the stick in the new Cold War during Hillary's tenure.
Thu Sep 17, 2015, 06:07 PM
Sep 2015

At least seven regime changes, and a bunch more attempted in 2009-12. A prelude to what is to come.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
4. Do you think that was what she created
Fri Sep 18, 2015, 01:10 AM
Sep 2015

or was it necessary due to relationships with other government agencies, and what was Obama's attitude, if we can venture a guess?

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
5. The record is clear on who within the Administration was pushing regime change in Libya and Syria
Fri Sep 18, 2015, 09:04 AM
Sep 2015

Last edited Fri Sep 18, 2015, 09:42 AM - Edit history (2)

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.

by Washington Post staff writer Craig Whitlock.

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.
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