Obama Folds To Iran (Again), Will Delay New Sanctions After Rouhani Threat
On Thursday, we detailed the Obama administration’s plan to impose fresh sanctions on Iran in connection with the test-firing of Tehran’s next-generation, surface-to-surface ballistic missile the Emad back in October.
While the launch did not technically violate the nuclear accord (on which the ink is barely dry), it did run afoul of a UN Security Council resolution on developing and testing missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads. That prompted some US lawmakers to call for new penalties against the country just as international sanctions are set to be lifted.
The new measures reportedly target around a dozen companies and individuals with ties to Tehran’s ballistic missiles program including:
- U.A.E.-based Mabrooka Trading and its founder, Hossein Pournaghshband
- Hong Kong-based Anhui Land Group
- Five officials from Iran’s Ministry of Defense for Armed Forces Logistics, or MODAFL including Sayyed Javad Musavi, a key figure at a MODAFL subsidiary which has been the subject of Treasury Dept. sanctions in the past
Iran immediately responded, calling the sanctions “arbitrary and illegal.” As a reminder, the Iranians vigorously defend their right to pursue what they call “defensive” capabilities. Tehran says its missile program falls into that category.
For his part, President Hassan Rouhani was not pleased and ordered his defence minister to immediately expand Iran's missile programme. This is precisely what we warned would happen on the heels of the Emad launch when we said the following:
“..imposing sanctions on countries in order to deter their defense buildup (Iran) or otherwise force them into acting in a way that fits your definition of being an internationally responsible country (Russia) is a fool's errand to the extent that it only serves to aggravate the situation and perpetuates still more of the very same behavior you're trying to deter in the first place."
Of course the more immediate question for The White House was whether the new sanctions would derail the nuclear accord which, as regular readers are no doubt aware, is a rather important part of Obama’s legacy. John McCain - among others - have accused the administration of tolerating incessant Iranian sabre rattling in a desperate attempt to preserve the deal. “Strict, aggressive, and consistent enforcement is critical to punishing Iran for its destabilizing behavior and making the nuclear deal work,” McCain said, in the wake of an “incident” in the Strait of Hormuz involving what Washington says was a “close call” with Iranian rockets.
In a move that will almost certainly infuriate GOP lawmakers, The White House has decided to mothball the new sanctions. “The White House has delayed its plan to impose new financial sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program,” WSJ reports, citing US officials. The move comes “amid growing tensions with Iran over the nuclear deal struck earlier this year,” The Journal adds. Here’s more:
U.S. officials offered no definitive timeline for when the sanctions would be imposed after the decision was made Wednesday to delay them. At one point, they were scheduled to be announced Wednesday morning in Washington, according to a notification the White House sent to Congress.
Republican leaders on Thursday accused the Obama administration of losing its will to challenge Iran after Tehran countered on Thursday that it would accelerate the development of its arsenal.
“If the president’s announced sanctions ultimately aren’t executed, it would demonstrate a level of fecklessness that even the president hasn’t shown before,” said Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), a leading critic of the nuclear deal, in an interview.
Critics of the planned sanctions had already charged they weren’t an adequate U.S. response to Iran’s continuing development of its missile program.
President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday morning on Twitter that he had instructed Iran’s Ministry of Defense to accelerate the development of ballistic missiles in response to the news reports of the impending U.S. sanctions.
The State Department was keen to note that the decision was not in any way related to Rouhani's comments. In a hilariously absurd testament to just how indecisive the current administration has become, Obama was apparently ready to announce the sanctions at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, then got cold feet and pushed the announcement back "a few hours" before cancelling it altogether. Here's The Times again:
The White House on Wednesday morning sent a notification to Congress that the Treasury Department would announce at 10:30 a.m. new sanctions on nearly a dozen companies and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates for their alleged role in developing Iran’s ballistic missile program. The sanctions would have been the first imposed on Iran since the nuclear agreement was reached last July in Vienna.
The White House then sent a second email to congressional offices at 11:12 a.m. stating the sanctions announcement had been “delayed for a few hours,” according to a copy of the communications seen by The Wall Street Journal.
In a final White House email sent just after 10 p.m., officials said the sanctions had been delayed, and didn’t specify when they might go ahead.
It's unclear what exactly unfolded between say, 9 a.m. Wednesday morning and lunchtime, but it seems logical to assume that someone conveyed Iran's position to the administration and, upon learning that Rouhani (not to mention the Ayatollah) were about to blow a fuse, Obama simply called the whole thing off.
Needless to say, this will be trotted out endlessly as further evidence that America has become weak, that the President "leads from behind," and that the nuclear was indeed "historic" - a "historic" failure.
On that note, we close with two statements, one from The White House and one from Rouhani. Compare and contrast.
The White House: "We are considering various aspects related to additional designations, as well as evolving diplomatic work that is consistent with our national security interests, and as such we will not be announcing any additional designations today."
Rouhani: "We have never negotiated regarding our defense capabilities including our missile program and will not accept any restrictions in this regard."
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jm; SA is not just a 'cesspool' but as I've said, it is one of the key enablers for the atrocities committed by the US in the ME. Yes, jm, we have committed and are committing atrocities. We need to get out just as the Nazi's needed to get out of Poland, France, or Hungary during WWII. We are committing immoral acts there (for example supplying weapons to terrorists who line up and shoot little children....just google the pictures of ISIS gunning them down...completely sickening).
The US government declared war in Vietnam on 'communists' and directly or indirectly killed 4 million men, women, and children!!!!!!!. Until the US government is prosecuted for this criminal act of mass murder, and the psychopaths and sociopaths cleaned out of DC, this US induced destructive mayhem in the world will continue indefinitely and world peace will never occur.
Rarely will a serial murderer stop murdering and committing mayhem until he is caught and prosectued. The same applies for the criminals in DC
You are preaching to the choir, man. Except the choir understands that there is oil there, and if the United states steps out of it someone even more brutal will reshape that cesspool even more brutally. Plus their reshaping will not be in the United States' interest. Not saying it is right, just how it is and it can't be changed.
It is sad in some way to realaize that as long as oil has value, the middle east will never escape foreign domination. The very resource that has brought terrorism-funding wealth to the elites and welfare-induced idle hands to the masses ensures that the middle east will never have the autonomy that islam doctrine takes as implicitly divine will.
"as long as oil has value, the middle east will never escape foreign domination"
Why can't the ME escape foreign domination? The ME was on it's way to escaping foreign domination until Israel was created and the Brits/French/US supported Islamofascist regimes to deter the Soviets.
Also the presence of oil in a ME country doesn't mean that it can't be progressive at least as measured against Whahibbist anti-progressivism
It is a strong correlation if not absolute one that in ME countries with oil controlled by the AZN such as SA, Qatar, Kuwait, and Nigeria, regimes are seen that are anti progressive and Islamofascist. But Libya and Iran have oil wealth; Libya was progressive under Ghadaffi (insofar as the rights of women were respected and laws were secular based). Iran is progressive. LIbya was destroyed by the AZN and Iran is next on the list, or was until Russia began loading Syria up with it's forces permanently.
I don't see any evidence to think that the ME is or was anywhere near anything lke autonomy in the last couple of centuries.
Anti-wabbism or not, progressive or regressive, militaristic or passive--the fact is that colonial dominating powers don't care as long as they get their oil. One could call Bush's "democratizing" Iraq and Obama's bizarre love for the muslim brotherhood as more like lab experiments to get more grass-roots buy-in from the people given that the governing regimes are ever more fragile. Oil is as necessary as capital and finance for the modern economy. Hence the TPTB--whoever they are--will always be involved in the Middle East. They will always be involved in patronizing failed ideologies/religions so long as they serve their purposes, propping up monsters, and being generous with military supplies. They didn't create any of these factors, just used them.
If the Soviet Union had dominated the ME, it would have looked like Hungary, Poland, Romania and such satellite countries. Massively polluted, poorly managed by a micromanaging incompetent bureaucracy, and spiritually, culturally and intellectually on life support. And it would have collapsed much sooner than the US/UK/Francaise template currently in place.
Israel is not the problem as much as the notion is tossed about. The problem is that "islamic societies", if you permit the expression, cannot now nor in the past couple of centuries been able to compete with their colonial powers. Much less hold any degree of autonomy without the sanction of the countries that dominate them. It is an internal failure.
Before it is too late: Needed is a real discussion of how to change the social features that stagnate the area so much and jettison islam's constraining influence and the failures it fosters at its core. One day oil won't matter due to technology or alternative supply. And those 9th century social structures will well and truly collapse into something close to nothing.
"Iran is progressive." Oh my, you are blowing yourself up.
So... Maybe its being done purposely? To de-stabilize the alliance? If that's the effect. Maybe that's also the real end-game?
US administration is consistently leading out with an aggressive bet and then folding whenever Russian / Iran makes a counter move.
What kind of a poker hand is Russia / Iran holding? My guess would be threat of China liquidation of UST's and other moves to kill the petrodollar?
Or maybe they just see the Joker and call the bluff everytime?
What kind of a poker hand is Russia / Iran holding?
It is quite obvious that Iran/Russia have a death star. Lucky for us, Barry is an expert statesman or the earth would have been destroyed by now.
All hail the great Barry and his wonderful wookie and let us all work together to keep this incredible all american family in the whitehouse as king and queer.. errr queen. foahevah..
There is no threat to the treasury market that can't be handled. The simplest explanation is that Obama is bent on weakening the US by design or merely as a reflection of his twisted inner life.
Seymor Hersch has written that Obama knowingly armed ISIS; Turkey was the conduit, SA provided money secretly, and Israel gave medical and training assitance to the terrorists. Obama was told to do this by his neocon handlers who put him in office.
http://www.inquisitr.com/2669533/seymour-hersh-drops-new-bombshell-white-house-knowingly-armed-isis-in-syria/
The US military opposed Obama's move to support ISIS and Daesh not because they cared about the atrocities, but because Russia had warned the US military that WWIII would start if the US tried to bomb Assad. The Russians had parked nuclear armed ships between US forces and Syria in 2012 and dared the US to shoot missles over them at Assad. Obama stopped listening to his neocon handlers and started listening again to his original trilateral commission/CIA handlers who had nurtured him along during his college and early post college days such as Zbig.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/29/443737/Seymour-Hersh-bombshell-Obama/
Obama is a sitting duck president who wants to retire, play golf, and hobnob with the world's rich without starting WWIII. The Russians have taken Syria now and war with Iran is out because the Russians have laid their red lines to the US military. If any war (or action) with Iran ensures, the US military would take the first tens of thousands of casualites. Assuming it doesn't go nuclear (a big assumption), war with Iran backed by Russia would be real fighting, not shooting tribesman on donkeys from the comfort and security of an attack helicopter. Iran will continue fighting unless the US occupies the place which would take several hundred thousands of troops. This is the wet dream of Nuttyahoo of course.
Occupying Iran is not going to happen, any ground forces there would not have complete air superiority and thousands would be killed on ships in the area, making logistics a nightmare. The Gulf would be cut off, SA oil would stop flowing and the SA regime likely toppled by a popular uprising. The US would face revolt at home by a populace that can finally see through the BS once their children get their draft notices.
Barry from Honolulu promised not to send America to war. He's kept the promise. Had the GOP, McCain et al been in we would be at Def Con 5 or all dead by now, so at least give him that.
I would like to know your definition of war; perhaps we could send you to Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia attached to an Obama drone.
Add Libya and Ukraine
Indirect. Where is the Schwarzkopf led third of a million US and NATO troops invasion force the Bush family would have drummed up? Barry said no.
Once again, the numbers drum. Might as well say none of US presidents back to FDR entered the US into war because war declaration lastly implemented year 1941.
Remove your cheap rhetorics and Obama initiated murdering innocents same as his predecessors.
The veracity of it has to do with that. Your attempt at exoneration Obama is clownish and bearded.
Defcon 5 is the lowest alert level. Defcon 1 is the highest.
You guys do get that he's just doing what his handlers tell him... right? Why are you wasting your hate on puppets? There's a larer agenda here and Obama is just following orders.
COME ON.... NOW I AM PULLING THE BULLSHIT FLAG!
iranian born valerie jarret, while clutching obola's nutsacks, reiterates her position
Valerie says move over reggie, I got this
And what? Panamanian born John McCain urges everything to bomb with his partner Graham behind him the anus is stretched.
A question hangs: how does it comes the single little detail birthplace is a mattering fact? It does not kick.
More likely proximity to Vichy DC corresponds to murderous impulsions.
a cut and paste from this article answers the question better than i could:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2418
See also: Barack Obama
Valerie Jarrett was born as Valerie Bowman on November 14, 1956, to American parents in Shiraz, Iran. Following is some vital information about several key, extremely radical influences in Jarrett's life.
Jarrett's Father
Valerie Jarrett's father—an American-born physician named James Bowman (1923-2011)—worked as a pathologist and geneticist at a children’s hospital in Shiraz as part of a U.S. aid program to assist developing countries. He resided in Chicago from approximately 1947-53, precisely when Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist journalist who would later serve as a mentor to a young Barack Obama, launched his Communist Party-line newspaper, the Chicago Star. Bowman and Davis undoubtedly knew one another during these years. Bowman subsequently moved to Iran, where Valerie Jarrett was born, after his discharge from the Army Medical Corps in 1955.
As evidenced by his lengthy FBI file, Bowman was a Communist who often collaborated with other Chicago-based members of the Party. In 1950, for instance, he communicated with a paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern, who: (a) later fled the U.S. to Prague after being charged with espionage in 1957, and (b) relocated to Cuba where he served as an adviser to Fidel Castro.
The federal government placed Bowman under special surveillance because of his involvement with the European Recovery Program (ERP)—i.e., the Marshall Plan. Historian Paul Kengor explains: "This ERP/Marshall Plan association is very intriguing, and troubling. One of the most insidious forms of Communist Party agitation in the 1940s and 1950s was to frame the Marshall Plan as a form of vile American imperialism. It was the Kremlin line, pushed by Stalin and Molotov and mimicked by [the] Communist Party USA. One of the worst peddlers of this line was Frank Marshall Davis, who characterized the Marshall Plan in his columns as a 'device' to maintain 'white imperialism.' The plan, by Davis’s rendering, was a disgusting 'oppression of non-white peoples everywhere,' a slavery purchased by Secretary of State Marshall’s 'billions of U.S. dollars ... to bolster the tottering empires of England, France, Belgium, Holland and the other western exploiters of teeming millions of humans.' ... Was James Bowman [promoting the same notions about the Marshall Plan]? I cannot tell from ... his FBI file, but I can say that Bowman’s work for, or position on, the Marshall Plan was the item of special concern to the FBI."
Bowman was also a member of the Association of Internes and Medical Students, a group that, according to Bowman's FBI file, engaged in un-American activities and “has long been a faithful follower of the Communist Party line.” This information is further buttressed by documents on Bowman from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which show that the FBI investigated him for his membership in a group that “follows the communist party line.”
Bowman was also very active with the communist student group American Youth for Democracy as well as the International Labor Defense and the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB), three of Frank Marshall Davis’s favorite organizations. Paul Kengor writes the following about ACPFB:
Bowman was also involved with the Abraham Lincoln School in Chicago, where Frank Marshall Davis taught at the time.
Jarrett's Mother
Valerie Jarrett's mother is the early-childhood-education author Barbara Taylor Bowman (born 1928), who in 1966 co-founded a Chicago-based graduate school in child development known as the Erikson Institute, named after the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. (In 1950 Erikson became a hero to the left by choosing to resign from his professorship at the University of California rather than sign an anti-communist loyalty oath as the school required.) Indicative of the Erikson Institute's radical political orientation is the fact that its board of trustees has included, in addition to Mrs. Bowman, such figures as Tom Ayers (father of the former Weather Underground terrorist and lifelong Marxist Bill Ayers) and Bernardine Dohrn (longtime wife of Bill Ayers). Bill Ayers, for his part, called Mrs. Bowman “a neighbor and friend” in his 1997 book A Kind and Just Parent, noting that his neighbors also included Louis Farrakhan and “writer Barack Obama.”
Jarrett's Maternal Grandfather
Valerie Jarrett's maternal grandfather was a Chicago communist named Robert Rochon Taylor, the first African-American head of the Chicago Housing Authority. In the 1940s he was involved with such Communist fronts as the American Peace Mobilization and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee (where he was an advisory board member). Also a member of these groups was Frank Marshall Davis (the Communist journalist who in the 1970s would mentor a young Barack Obama). FBI documents show that Taylor was “in contact with [Soviet agent Alfred] Stern on a number of occasions.
Taylor also had ties to William Patterson, who was a prominent black communist and a mentor to Frank Marshall Davis. In Congress’s 1944 report titled “Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States,” Taylor was named for his participation in the “Arrangements Committee” that organized the July 1939 Chicago Conference on Race Relations, in which a number of nationally known communist figures played roles. Taylor’s FBI file shows that he was also a “member of the Sponsoring Committee for a reception of Howard Fast,” a 1944 event held in Chicago to honor the Stalin Prize-winning “journalist” who was the most frequent op-ed contributor to Frank Marshall Davis’s Chicago Star.
Jarrett's Maternal Grandmother
Valerie Jarrett's maternal grandmother, Dorothy Taylor, was a Berkeley, California native who was active with Planned Parenthood in its early years.
1961-1983
When Valerie Jarrett was five, her family relocated to London for one year before settling in Chicago’s elite Hyde Park neighborhood in 1963.
Jarrett earned a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981. From 1981-87 she practiced law at two Chicago-based private firms. In 1983 she married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett.
Jarrett's Father-In-Law
Vernon Jarrett (Valerie Jarrett's father-in-law) was a pioneering black journalist in the 1940s. He freelanced at Kansas City’s The Call from 1954-58, then returned to Chicago to become the first nationally syndicated black columnist for the Communist-influenced Chicago Defender, where he wrote columns extolling the Communist poet Langston Hughes and lifelong Stalinists W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson. Also in the 1940s, Vernon Jarrett was a leader of the Chicago chapter of American Youth for Democracy—youth wing of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Moreover, he served on a publicity committee for the Packinghouse Workers Union, a Chicago-based entity dominated by the CPUSA. In each of these endeavors, Vernon Jarrett had close contact with the Communist Frank Marshall Davis.
The government watchdog organization Judicial Watch (JW) reports that according to his FBI files, Vernon Jarrett was a leading Chicago-based Communist. “For a period of time,” says JW, “Vernon Jarrett appeared on the FBI’s Security Index and was considered a potential Communist saboteur who was to be arrested in the event of a conflict with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). His FBI file reveals that he was assigned to write propaganda for a Communist Party front group in Chicago that would 'disseminate the Communist Party line among … the middle class.'”
Vernon Jarrett was a member of the Communist Party from at least 1946-48 and was also one of its key fundraisers. As Paul Kengor puts it, "His [FBI] file is so filled with communist groups and activities that it makes your head hurt."
When Vernon Jarrett died in 2004, he was saluted in the pages of People’s Weekly World, the house organ of the CPUSA.
Assessing Jarrett's Radical & Communist Roots
In 2014, Kengor summarized the implications of Valerie Jarrett's radical Communist lineage: “[Barack] Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, worked with the literal relatives of Valerie Jarrett—her grandfather and future father-in-law—in Chicago’s Communist Party circles in the 1940s.” In an earlier piece, Kengor put it this way: “So, imagine where we are today: Barack Obama, Frank Marshall Davis’s political godson, and Valerie Jarrett, daughter-in-law to Vernon Jarrett and granddaughter of Robert Taylor—men with links to pro-Stalinism—are the two dominant figures in the White House, the power center that battled the USSR throughout the Cold War.”
In July 2015, Kengor elaborated that James Bowman (Valerie Jarrett's father), Robert Rochon Taylor (Valerie Jarrett's maternal grandfather), and Vernon Jarrett (Valerie Jarrett's father-in-law) "were all in Chicago at the exact same time and all operating in the exact same close-knit circles of the city’s Communist Party generally and of a much smaller group of African-American communists specifically." "Even tinier still," Kengor added, "they were Chicago-based African-American communist writers, journalists, Party activists, and agitators. There is simply no way—no way—that James Bowman, Vernon Jarrett, Robert Rochon Taylor, and Frank Marshall Davis did not know and work together. Unimaginable."
Valerie Jarrett Enters Politics
Valerie Jarrett entered Chicago politics in 1987 as Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development in the administration of Harold Washington, the city's first African-American mayor. Jarrett's father-in-law, whom The Washington Post called “a key influence in [Harold] Washington's decision to run for the Chicago mayoralty,” may have facilitated Valerie's rise through Chicago’s political ranks.
After Mayor Washington’s death in 1987, Valerie Jarrett served as deputy chief of staff for the next mayor, Richard M. Daley. During her tenure in that post, Jarrett met and befriended a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson, (the future Michelle Obama), who at the time was engaged to Barack Obama. In 1991 Jarrett and her colleague Susan Sher recruited Michelle to Chicago's City Hall, and Jarrett quickly became a trusted confidante of both the Obamas.
From 1992 through 1995, Jarrett served the Daley administration as commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development. From 1995-2003, she chaired the Chicago Transit Board. Sometime in the early 1990s, Marilyn Katz, an activist/public-affairs consultant with close ties to City Hall—and a former Students for a Democratic Society radical—introduced Jarrett to Daniel Levin, a cousin of both Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) and Rep. Sander Levin (D-Michigan).
Slumlord Years
From 1995-2008 Jarrett worked for Daniel Levin's real-estate firm, the Habitat Company. In 2007 Jarrett became Habitat's president and CEO, drawing a $300,000 in salary plus $550,000 in deferred compensation.
From 2001-08, the Habitat Company managed Grove Parc Plaza, a federally subsidized, 504-unit public housing complex situated in a neighborhood that Barack Obama had represented for eight years as a state senator. But under Habitat's management, Grove Parc fell into disrepair and became largely uninhabitable, plagued by a host of unaddressed problems such as collapsed roofs, fire damage, rodent infestation, and sewage backups. According to a 2008 Boston Globe report: “In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale—a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.” Eventually government inspectors seized control of the complex because of its horrid conditions.
Also under Jarrett's stewardship, said the Globe, “Habitat ... co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.”
But for Jarrett the news was not all bad. Indeed she became immensely wealthy while presiding over the aforementioned slum apartments. As of 2012 Jarrett owned an 11-percent equity interest in Kingsbury Plaza, a 46-story luxury apartment complex developed by the Habitat Company during 2005-07 at a cost exceeding $100 million. On her 2011 financial disclosure form, she valued that investment—which a Jarrett spokesman said was “a direct result of her 13 years working for Habitat”—at between $1 million and $5 million. According to a 2012 report in the Washington Free Beacon: “Cook County records show the Kingsbury property's worth at approximately $27.2 million, but thanks to a series of legal appeals beginning in 2003, the land and building are assessed at a much lower value for tax purposes. Since 2008, the property has been designated a 'special commercial structure' and is taxed at a value of just $6.8 million, or 25 percent of the actual value. Asked how such a property could enjoy such a low taxable value, an official with the Cook County Assessor’s Office told the Free Beacon that the property’s owners 'must have good attorneys.'”
Apart from her duties with the Habitat Compan, Jarrett from 2000-07 was a board member of the Chicago Stock Exchange. She also served stints as chair of the University of Chicago Medical Center's Board of Trustees; vice chair of the University of Chicago's Board of Trustees; a trustee of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry; and a board of directors member of USG Corporation, a Chicago-based building-materials company.
Alliance With Barack Obama
Following Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election, Jarrett co-chaired the Obama-Biden Transition Project. After that, she was appointed to a prominent position in the Obama administration: Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. In this role, Jarrett was one of President Obama’s (and Mrs. Obama’s) closest and most trusted advisers. Consider the following observations, by a variety of informed sources, about Jarrett's importance as an Obama advisor:
Jarrett is deeply concerned with racial issues. After the tape recordings of Jeremiah Wright's racist, anti-American diatribes threatened to sink Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, it was Jarrett who encouraged Obama to give his “race speech” at Constitution Hall. African-American administration staffers have said that without Jarrett's patronage, “their opinions and the often-legitimate concerns voiced by black leaders like [Al] Sharpton would have been thoroughly disregarded by the white-dominated senior staff.”
When future White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to downplay Obama’s assertion (during the 2008 presidential campaign) that Republicans were emphasizing the fact that Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills,” Jarrett instructed white staffers: “You guys, you’re not getting this issue right.” After Jarrett’s intervention, candidate Obama told his white staffers that they were too “gun-shy on race issues.” According to a campaign source, “[M]oving forward, the candidate made it very clear to us that we were just a bunch of white people who didn’t get it—which, by the way, was true.”
After Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Jarrett successfully pushed to loosen restrictions barring government officials from meeting with lobbyists, a rule enshrined in Obama’s executive memo on the Recovery Act [stimulus bill], for fear that other “legitimate” concerns—raised by “civil rights organizations whose directors happen to be registered lobbyists—will not be heard.”
In early 2009 Jarrett lobbied President Obama to create the office of Chief Diversity Officer within the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a position filled soon thereafter by Mark Lloyd, an Alinskyite and a former senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Jarrett also helped recruit Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, who supports the Fairness Doctrine and has argued that Americans should “celebrate tax day.”
Without Jarrett’s patronage, the self-identified communist revolutionary Van Jones would not have gotten his appointment as the Obama administration's green jobs czar in March 2009. A White House official told Politico that Jones “did not go through the traditional vetting process.” Instead, Jarrett interviewed Jones, a signal that she pushed for his appointment. Indeed, Jarrett gushed to the Netroots Nation conference in August 2009:
Moreover, Jarrett's office approved the September 2009 invitation of Jameel Jaffer, the head of the ACLU's “national security project,” to a White House Ramadan dinner. According to The American Spectator:
Collaborating with the National Endowment for the Arts to Advance the Obama Agenda
On May 12, 2009, numerous employees in Jarrett's office—and possibly Jarrett herself—helped co-host a strategy meeting organized by the Nathan Cummings Foundation. At this event, some 60 artists were—in the words of one of the meeting’s organizers—“challenged to come up with promising and attractive ideas about how artists can work for the [Obama] administration’s agenda.” For details about the meeting and its attendees, click here.
The meeting was led by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) official (Mario Garcia Durham), two representatives of First Lady Michelle Obama (Joseph Reinstein and Trooper Sanders), White House arts czar Kareem Dale (who reported to Valerie Jarrett), and three members of what was then known as the Office of Public Liason (headed by Jarrett). Those three were Buffy Wicks, Tina Tchen, and Mike Strautmanis (President Obama’s former chief counsel and a onetime paralegal at Michelle Obama’s law firm).
In the meeting, Strautmanis encouraged the group to think of “ways to communicate” the Obama administration’s agenda “with people and how to motivate them culturally.” Buffy Wicks asked briefing participants to “think through how their networks and organizations can participate in areas such as the arts in education, healthcare and preventative care, energy and environment, or economic opportunity.” And Tina Tchen added, “The administration wants to sustain energy from the election process and turn it toward the agenda.”
The notes of the meeting seem to suggest that Valerie Jarrett was present at some point as well.
Other noteworthy attendees included:
Also in attendance were Maria Teresa Petersen, founding executive director of Voto Latino; Caron Atlas and Ryan Friedrichs of State Voices; Robert “Biko” Baker, executive director of the League of Young Voters; Michelle Miller, manager of popular media organizing at the SEIU; Denise Brown, executive director of the Leeway Foundation; and Michelle Coffey, senior philanthropic advisor with the Tides Foundation.
More Examples of Jarrett's Influence on the Obama Administration
When President Obama publicly stated that Massachusetts police had acted “stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct in July 2009 (click here for details), Jarrett urged Obama to walk back those remarks because she worried that they would be perceived as disrespectful to police.
In his book Leading From Behind, author Richard Miniter reveals that Jarrett, prior to the May 2011 U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden, repeatedly urged President Obama not to kill the al Qaeda leader, prompting Obama to cancel the mission on three separate occasions—in January, February, and March of 2011. Jarrett was concerned about the political damage that could result if the mission were to fail.
In 2010-11 Jarrett promoted the California-based solar-power company Solyndra, where one of her wealthiest Chicago connections, billionaire George Kaiser—a leading Obama bundler—held a 35% share in the company. On Jarrett's advice, President Obama famously visited and publicly extolled Solyndra in 2010, even though auditors were already warning about the abysmal state of its finances. In September 2011 the company declared bankruptcy, but not before it had received a $535 million government-backed loan.
In September 2011, Jarrett said the following about what she viewed as the proper role of government: “We have to give people a livelihood so they can provide for their families.... His [President Obama's] is a moral vision. It's a vision based very deeply in values and taking care of 'the least of these.' And making sure that we are creating a country that's a country for everybody, not just for the very, very wealthy. We are working hard to lift people out of poverty and give them a better life, a footing, and that’s what government is supposed to do.”
A September 2012 New York Times report identifies Jarrett as the person responsible for a number of controversial Obama Administration policy decisions, including: (a) the Affordable Care Act's call for an insurance mandate for contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization procedures; (b) President Obama's decision to sue the state of Arizona for its immigration-enforcement statute (SB-1020); and (c) the president's decision to allow illegal immigrants to apply for work permits.
In March 2012, Jarrett was a major presenter at J Street’s Third Annual Conference.
In an interview with Walter Isaacson at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival, Jarrett recalled a meeting in which she had participated a year-and-a-half earlier with four "Dream Act kids"—young illegal immigrants who had walked from Miami to Washington, DC as part of the 2010 “Trail of Dreams” program sponsored by such groups as Students Working for Equal Rights and the Florida Immigrant Coalition. Said Jarrett:
In October 2012 it was revealed that for several months, Jarrett, who had no experience in international negotiations, had been leading secret negotiations with representatives of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, in an effort to develop normalized relations between the U.S. and Iran.
A few days before the November 2012 presidential election, a representative from Jarrett's office quoted Jarrett as having told several senior staffers the following: “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”
Reports of Jarrett's Role in Leaking the Information That Sparked the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal
In early March 2015, it was reported that throughout her entire four-year (2009-13) tenure as Secretary of State (SOS), Hillary Clinton -- in baltant violation of government regulations -- had never acquired or used a government email account, and instead had transmitted all of her official government correspondences via a personal email address that she registered on the very same day as her confirmation hearings for SOS began. The personal email address -- hdr22@clintonemail.com -- traced back to a private email server that was situated inside Mrs. Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York. (For additional details of this scandal, click here.) In mid-March, longtime author and journalist Ed Klein reported that according to his sources, Valerie Jarrett had leaked this information -- embarrassing and potentially damaging to Clinton's political aspirations -- to the press. According to Klein, Jarrett "did so through people outside the administration, so the story couldn’t be traced to her or the White House." Added Klein:
Alliance With the "Black Lives Matter" Movement
On September 16, 2015, Jarrett and some other administration officials met at the White House with Black Lives Matter activists Brittney Packnett, DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie, Phillip Agnew, and Jamye Wooten. In a subsequent tweet directed to Miss Packnett, Jarrett wrote: “Great meeting, Brittany. Truly appreciate your leadership!!”
And proving my point I thank you.
This Jarrett woman a harpy manipulative and scheming. Influence of raised in family of Chicago politics/crime (in Chicago is equivalent) is the mattering environment factor.
Noticed nothing of radicality influenced by birthplace.
His greatest weakness is kowtowing and pandering to the Neocons and criminal elements like McCain.
His back tracking in my book is a sign of strength in this instance providing me great encouragement.
are the NeoCONs dead yet?
WBs Bugs Bunny (No place like home) reprise
Be it ever so "crumbly" there's no place like Rome...
Barack he was the Emperor and the "White House" was his home...
But he liked to play with matches and for a fire yearned....
"In a move that will almost certainly infuriate GOP lawmakers" - END
No vetoes by Obama; yet the majority rules both sides of Congress because they are one in the same. They are the enemies of the people.
And Reggie say’s to Obama, “O, why don’t you just go ahead and take it up the ass. You know that’s how you like it. So he did.
In a move that will almost certainly infuriate GOP lawmakers, The White House has decided to mothball the new sanctions.
Now I don't know whether to believe this article or not
Ryan and McConnell too busy trying to fuck american citizens to worry about Iran
Iran has evidence from Russia that Obama personally gave the go ahead for ISIS.
Russia have sald its S300 to Iran.
Russia had oil & gas deals in Iran.
http://www.politico.eu/article/iran-russia-gas-lng-gazprom-energy/
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/24/443109/Gazprom-hails-Irans-new-f...
Russia get iran oil rig contract.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/30/443803/Iran-oil-rig-Russia-Krasn...
Iran get Russia loans.
https://www.rt.com/business/321693-iran-russia-loan-trade/
Russia get contract for Iran 2nd Nuke Power Plant.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-to-start-construction-on-...
Iran wants to join Russia lead Eurasia economic bloc.
http://m.sputniknews.com/world/20151225/1032302921/iran-russia-cooperati...
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If Obomba sanctions Iran? ALL Iran's trade deal willxbe given to Russia.
Does US companies suicidals enough to give Iran totally to Russia's on a silver plate??
I dares US to put sanctions on Iran. Remember, Iran's is THE BEACON COUNTRY FOR ALL,SHIAH FOLLOWER ALL OVER THE WORLD!! Does US ready to put Iran under Russia's total influence??
Bwahahahahahaha...
IO, you have said a mouthfull........
This guy is a nut job - “Strict, aggressive, and consistent enforcement is critical to punishing Iran for its destabilizing behavior and making the nuclear deal work,” McCain said.
Just who is destabilizing whom? I sure wish someone would start putting sactions on the USSA and the criminals in the nut house as well as its puppet states for their aggressive destabilizing geopolitical behavior.
Valerie Jarrett stuffs Obama back into his cage. Too funny....
Sounds like another Obama catch-22 foreign policy decision. Let's hope John Kerry can start 2016 off fixing this one...you know...because with so many 2015 successes ...he would be the logical choice to head up this endeavor...
When pot (7000 nukes) calls the kettle (0 nukes) black.
Its time to take a rain check.
Maybe Obama has seen the kettle boiling over!
Maybe Obama has latent leanings for Shia? In any case we are being preparred that beginning soon Obama will be enacting exec orders for gun control in the US. He's like a fireman who fights the hottest fire first and at the end of the day shows complete ballance in world administration. Iran will be dealt with after the greater threat to world peace is taken care of?
Community Organizer............AT BEST!
When sanctions are imposed on the free flow of Wahhabi/Sunni Terror committed by Saudi and Turkey i'll know the US/UK/ZATO are being serious.
the sanctions were bullshit, and who says they were his idea to begin with
Ar Rhouhani and Barack an "Item" ? We cn see who is on top!
The US is so lucky. Russia still hasn't launched its entire nuclear arsenal at the US yet. Have a happy New Year everyone!
Once again POTUS (Psychopath Of The United States) is made a fool of for all the world to see.
I don't buy a product with barcode 729. Thats why TPP and the chip are in motion.
Neuter the product origin under globalization. If label is unknown, how can we be sued for mad cow, or any other CDC media out breaks of chaos. It’s called execution for lying to public. Did you read the TPP plan? We have.
“John McCain - among others - have accused the administration of tolerating incessant Iranian sabre rattling”
With a US fleet cruising contantly in front of the Iranian shores, saying Iran is sabre rattling means this gentleman has the ass in lieu of the face
Of course if I wanted to negotiate with a potential nuclear power that some might say was run by an creaking rabid imbecile, I too would take the following steps.
1) go to Kenya
2) find some trees especially ones full of monkeys.
3) watch for the most promiscuous monkeys
4) then only watch the faggot monkeys and catch the most whoring one.
5) Bring to USA
6) Get every fucking moronic fucked up retard to vote fr the monkey
7) Get monkey to find he most half witted cripple brain that cant walk straight without breaking a leg and appoint to chief negotiator
8) Wait until everything turns to total fucking shit and then fuck off and pretend to play golf.
9) go to bed and suck some fucking fat white faggot's poxy dick
10) Go home and tell every dribbling moron what a great success you were
why do israelis get so upset when they can't have man sex with a usa president? a country made up of faggots(jews have the highest percentage of homosexual,men and women) can't survive unless there are enough heterosexuals.
There are a bunch of Israel leaders who cry foul. When they about to run out of US Taxpayers money. Bombs, Iran, West Bank Palestine strikes.
Have a look at the Jews stealing from American
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf
We can cut off ISIS once we stop funding it. NSA is having an information brain aneurysm.
Yeah, and what's up with those "charitites" urging fat, uneducaded, israel-supporting Americans to "donate" to Israel because somehow a quarter of the population is hungry. And while that may be true when including the Palestinian/Gazan populations under constant siege/blocade, something tells me that no food or money will actually make it to where it's needed.
Israel just LOVES spending 'other peoples money'