Showing posts with label Samantha Power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samantha Power. Show all posts

Monday, May 21, 2018

"We Need to Know What Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Rice, Power and the Rest of Them Did"



...Halper's contracts were funded through four annual awards paid directly out of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA). Established as the DoD's "internal think tank" in 1973 by Richard Nixon (whose administration Halper worked for), the ONA was run by foreign policy strategist Andrew Marshall from its inception until his 2015 retirement at the age of 93, after which he was succeeded by current director James H. Baker.... Halper's most recent award was noted recently by Trump supporter Jacob Wohl, which piqued the interest of internet researchers who continued the analysis....

The most recent award to Halper for $411,575 was made in two payments, and had a start date of September 26, 2016 - three days after a September 23 Yahoo! News article by Michael Isikoff about Trump aide Carter Page, which used information fed to Isikoff by "pissgate" dossier creator Christopher Steele. The FBI would use the Yahoo! article along with the unverified "pissgate" dossier as supporting evidence in an FISA warrant application for Page. ...





















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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Trey Gowdy: Samantha Power testified that intel officials made 'unmasking' requests in her name



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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

House Intelligence Committee subpoenas records on unmasking requests by Susan Rice, John Brennan, and Samantha Power











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Thursday, April 13, 2017

She has yet to Tweet about the attack on Syria.



It must have seemed like a problem from hell: When Samantha Power served as Barack Obama's ambassador to the United Nations, she tirelessly highlighted the depredations of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, publicizing his various barbarities—his indiscriminate killing of civilians, his use of chemical weapons, his astonishing cruelty to children. And yet Ambassador Power served a president who steadfastly refused to do anything to counter those outrages, a president who stood idly by as the Syrian tyrant dropped chemical weapons and barrel bombs on innocent civilians. Indeed, Barack Obama would have fit quite well into A Problem From Hell, Power's terrific 2003 book, which trained a gimlet eye on America's all-too-common indifference to genocide and mass killing.

Since her retirement from government service, Power has kept up the fight, tweeting prolifically about the carnage in Syria. Indeed, on April 4, 5, and 6 she tweeted repeatedly about the Assad regime's apparent chemical assault in Idlib—the very attack that spurred Donald Trump to enforce Barack Obama's red line and hit back at the Syrian dictator with a missile attack on an air base.

And then she went strangely silent.
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Monday, January 2, 2017

A brilliant ad that will run in @washingtonpost on New Years Day 2017.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

"American policy towards South Sudan is a disaster—such that there is a policy at all."


◼ South Sudan, Samantha Power, and the Failure of Liberal Internationalism - Aaron MacLean/Washington Free Beacon
The war has not received much coverage in the American media in part because, in 2014, who can keep track anymore of the violent spasms afflicting the world?

American policy towards South Sudan is a disaster—such that there is a policy at all. When decisions come, they come—as is the case in most conflicts where American diplomats and soldiers are involved today—from the very top, with policy micromanaged from the offices of Susan Rice and Samantha Power. In terms of meaningful action, the policy has involved the levying of travel and financial sanctions on mid-level commanders and suspected human rights abusers, who must have been devastated when word arrived at their swamp redoubts beside the upper Nile that they are no longer permitted to trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

In addition to sanctions, much hope has been invested in the ability of a regional coalition of neighboring states, organized as the Intergovernmental Authority on Development—IGAD, inauspiciously pronounced as Egad!—to broker a deal between the Dinka and the Nuer, the two tribal networks doing the fighting. IGAD includes among its members Uganda, which has troops in South Sudan backing the government-aligned Dinka, and Sudan, which is widely believed to be backing the rebel Nuers in an effort to act as a spoiler in its recently surrendered territory.

In other words, IGAD not only has no chance of stopping the war—it’s even far from clear that its members want the war to come to a negotiated end. But this doesn’t stop the United Nations, and our ambassador in Turtle Bay, Samantha Power, from speaking of IGAD as though it were some meaningful mechanism for achieving peace....

An investment in endless process, in which untrustworthy agents halfheartedly wrangle combatants towards a negotiated peace that no party actually prefers to victory, followed by impotent invocations of a moral commitment to national dialogue and lasting peace.

The killing continues, heedless of the process.

For Power, the manifest ineffectiveness of her vision would constitute a fall from grace, should anyone be paying attention. This is the woman whose book about genocide won her a Pulitzer before she was 33, and who rose to prominence in the liberal establishment on the back of passionate calls for a U.S. foreign policy characterized by a scaling-back of U.S. military involvement and a “mea culpa doctrine” wherein the U.S. was to atone for its Cold War wrongs, combined with a reinvigorated devotion to multilateralism and an unabashed focus on human rights....

A foreign policy premised on the appeal to the better angels of the world’s nature will be forever mugged by the reality that there are no angels available for the appeal. KEEP READING
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Monday, September 9, 2013

"UNBELIEVABLY SMALL" RED LINE II: KERRY GIVES ASSAD 'ONE WEEK'

◼ Obama has created the mother of all messes for himself and the rest of us over Syria - Charles Crawford/THE COMMENTATOR
The truly dismal, tentative way President Obama has approached this problem after he created it with his 'red line' language has been a classic historic case-study in How Not To Do Diplomacy
#9724; The US secretary of state has said that President Bashar al-Assad has one week to hand over his entire stock of chemical weapons to avoid a military attack. But John Kerry added that he had no expectation that the Syrian leader would comply. - Patrick Wintour/THE GUARDIAN

◼ NO RED LINE: State Dept dismisses ultimatum as 'rhetorical argument'
...the State Department quickly dismissed the comment as more of a "rhetorical argument" than an offer.

In a London news conference this morning, Secretary of State John Kerry responded to a question about whether Assad could do anything to avoid war by saying "he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it over, all of it, without delay and allow a full and total accounting."

Kerry delivered the statement almost dismissively and quickly said Assad had no intention of giving up "weapons he denies using." But it was still the first time such a suggestion had been made by the Obama administration.

The State Department was forced to clarify the remarks, calling them "rhetorical" and making clear its desire to strike could be tempered by a Syrian offer. Kerry's point, according to spokeswoman Jen Psaki, "was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons."


◼ Via Drudge
◼ Kerry pushes attack as 'unbelievably small' - THE GLOBE AND MAIL
’We’re not talking about war’: Kerry outlines ’unbelievably small’ strike on Syria
◼ WH Sends Out Rice, Who Misled on Benghazi, to Make Case - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard
SAMANTHA POWER: ILLEGAL, BUT NECESSARY...
NEUTERED: Biden sent out of town as Obama pitches Congress...

◼ Obama on Syria: Incoherent Incompetence -- or the Decline of America by Design? - RUSH
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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Obama team thought Iran would not tolerate Bashar Assad's use of WMDs

◼ Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, hoped that a team of UN investigators — many of whom, presumably, have a longstanding relationship with Iranian leaders -- could write a report that would convince Iran to abandon its ally at the behest of the United States. - Joel Gehrke/Washington Examiner @joelmentum

◼ Smart Power: Obama's Brain Trust Thought That Iran Would Help Isolate Syria Over Chemical Weapons Usage - Ace Of Spades

That's it, folks. That's the nail in the coffin. We cannot go to war under this clownshow's disaster-movie leadership.

Iran was apparently Samantha Power's Hole Card.

◼ Smart power? Obama’s team thought US might win Iran’s support against Syria - Twitchy, Who Said What on Twitter

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