Senate Level Disrespect

John Kerry, in sworn testimony before the Senate in April 1971, said he met with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong delegations in Paris in May 1970. He said they discussed their peace proposals —— especially the eight points of Madam Binh. Kerry strongly recommended that the Senate accept those proposals. "I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government and of all eight of Madam Binh's points..." "...I realize that even my visits in Paris, precedents had been set by Senator McCarthy and others, in a sense are on the borderline of private individuals negotiating, et cetera." Did John Kerry Violate the Logan Act that April of 1971? In 1985, during the Cold War, John Forbes Kerry and Senator Tom Harkin met with the communist radical Manuel Ortega in Nicaragua. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz decried “self-appointed emissaries to the Communist regime” in Managua, and said, “We cannot conduct a successful policy when [such people] take trips or write ‘Dear Comandante’ letters with the aim of negotiating.” Henry Kissinger added, “If the Nicaraguans want to make an offer, they ought to make it through diplomatic channels. We can’t be negotiating with our own congressmen and Nicaragua simultaneously.” Senator Goldwater called the Kerry-Harkin trip just “wrong, wrong, wrong.” In the end, the trip backfired. Not long after the senators left him, Ortega flew off to Moscow, to affirm his alliance with the Soviets. Democratic leaders ” Tip O’Neill in particular ” were embarrassed. Even after Reagan’s policy in Nicaragua ended in democracy in Central America, John Forbes Kerry refused to accept that his own actions against both Reagan and then Vice-President George H.W. Bush had been ill-advised. Did John Forbes Kerry Violate the Logan Act again? Reverend Jessie Jackson's trips to Syria, Cuba and Nicaragua also drew accusations of Logan Act violations from President Reagan.   On Dec 14, 2006 Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) defied pressure from the Bush administration not to go and went ahead with talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. the first senator in nearly two years to meet with Assad. Did Senator Bill Nelson Violate the Logan Act?   December 21, 2006, Senator John F. Kerry visited Syria along with Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, despite the administration's opposition to the trip. The Bush administration cut off high-level diplomatic contact with Syria in late 2004, saying that talks with the government had failed to persuade Syria to stop the flow of insurgents into Iraq or to stop support for the anti-Israeli militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas. Then White House press secretary Tony Snow blasted the visits as "not appropriate," saying such meetings hand the Syrian government "a PR victory" by allowing officials to showcase what they portray as improved relations with the West. Did John Forbes Kerry Violate the Logan Act once again?   May 12, 2002, Jimmy Carter flew to Havana Cuba for a six-day private visit to the island country the first president in or out of office to visit Cuba since its 1959 revolution. During his stay here, Carter held talks with Castro and other senior Cuban leaders, a direct violation of United States policy. 13 April 2008, Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter sparked an outcry of protest from Israeli and American officials for his decision to meet with Hamas leaders during a week-long visit to Israel, Syria and Egypt, against the wishes of the State Department. After being snubbed by Israel's senior leadership, including Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He met that Sunday with Israel's ceremonial president, Shimon Peres, who told him that meeting Mashaal was "a very big mistake," according to Peres spokeswoman Ayelet Frisch. after being snubbed by Israeli leaders. On April 14, Carter visited Sderot, Israel. Mayor Eli Moyal said he met with Carter to present Israel's side, even though he said he was "upset" about Carter's scheduled meeting with the Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal. "I don't think he should meet with killers," Moyal said. On April 15 Carter went to Ramallah, West Bank to participate in a meeting that infuriated Israeli officials already upset by Carter's freelance Mideast peace mission. There Carter also laid a wreath at the grave of Yasser Arafat, whom the Bush administration and many Israelis blame for the breakdown of peace talks seven years ago and the violence that followed. While in Ramallah the former president hugged Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician, meeting participants said. Embraces between men are a common custom in Arab culture. Then on April 16, Carter flew to Egypt to meet Hamas' Gaza leaders, Mahmoud Zahar, Said Siyam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on April 17, in Cairo. On Friday April 18 Jimmy Carter went to Syria and met with the exiled leader of Hamas and his deputy, two men the U.S. government labels as global terrorists and Israel accuses of masterminding suicide bombings and kidnappings. Carter's meeting with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal was the first public contact in two years between a prominent American figure and Hamas' leadership and followed two other meetings between the former American president and the Palestinian militant group around the Middle East this week. Hamas officials say the meetings have lent the group legitimacy. Mashaal's deputy Moussa Abu Marzouk attended the meeting with Carter at Mashaal's Damascus office. Abu Marzouk was designated a terrorist by U.S. Treasury Department in 1995, allowing the government to seize his assets. He was detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York that same year and spent two years in a New York jail before he was deported in 1997. On April 16, 2008, Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-9) called on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to revoke former President Jimmy Carter’s passport. This is in response to the former President traveling to Syria to meet with Hamas, an organization officially designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. “Former President Carter has acted in contradiction of international agreements to isolate Hamas. He has acted in defiance of both United States policy and international policy. His actions reward terrorists, lend support, and provide legitimacy to their belief that violence will eventually get them what they want,” said Rep. Myrick. After Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections the Quartet (US, UN, EU and Russia) called on Hamas to renounce terror, recognize Israel and recognize the previous agreements between the Palestinian Authority and Israel as they seek an agreement to make peace. Hamas has categorically rejected these three conditions for more than two years. Congress granted the Secretary of State the power to grant and verify passports. In 1981, the United States Supreme Court held in the case of Haig v. Agee that the Secretary of State has the implied power to revoke passports as well (453 U.S. 280). Did Jimmy Carter Violate the Logan Act?   April 3, 2007, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived Tuesday in the Syrian capital, where she is expected to tackle an issue complicating the U.S. mission in the Middle East -- Damascus' alleged support for militants in Iraq and Lebanon. The delegation includes one Republican, David Hobson of Ohio. Other Democratic members include Reps. Henry Waxman and Tom Lantos of California, Louise Slaughter of New York, Nick Rahall of West Virginia and Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim to serve in Congress. Though her visit conjured a strong rebuke by the White House, Syria seemed to welcome the 67-year-old California Democrat. President Bush on Tuesday called the trip "counterproductive" and said it would send mixed signals. "Photo opportunities and/or meetings with President Assad lead the Assad government to believe they're part of the mainstream of the international community, when, in fact, they're a state sponsor of terror," he said at a news conference in the White House's Rose Garden. Pelosi defended her visit, saying her talks with Al-Assad focused only on topics on which she and Bush agree. "On the issues that we set before the president (of Syria)," she said, "there is no division among us or between our congressional delegation in Congress and the president of the United States." Syrian cabinet minister Buthayna Sha'ban expressed his support for the visit and said, "Syria stands for freedom and for peace, and so does Nancy Pelosi." The Bush administration charges that Syria allows insurgents to cross its borders and attack targets in Iraq -- an allegation Syria denies. While Syria admits it financially supports Hamas and Hezbollah, it denies U.S. accusations that it provides them with weapons. The country has been on the U.S. State Department's list of terror-sponsoring nations since the list was created in 1979. Still, despite the White House's rebuke, Pelosi's visited Syria anyway. Did Speaker Pelosi Violate the Logan Act?   Howard Dean has been meeting with world leaders to repair "the extraordinary damage" that the Bush administration has done to America's image and to prepare the way for a new Democratic president. "I am trying to build relationships with other governments in preparation for a Democratic takeover," Dean said. "I want to make clear that there is an opposition in America and that we are ready to take power and that when we do, we are going to have much better relationships with them."   February 12, 2008 Zbigniew Brzezinski a foreign policy adviser to Senator Obama went to Syria, a country President Bush has accused of arming terrorists and ordering political assassinations in Lebanon. A spokesman for Senator Obama's presidential campaign, Tommy Vietor, said the campaign did not know Mr. Brzezinski was leading the delegation for the RAND Corp. He added: "Brzezinski is not a day-to-day adviser for the campaign, he is someone whose guidance Senator Obama seeks on Iraq." Zbigniew Brzezinski, remember him from the Carter days of folly and bungle that gave us the Iranian debacle in the first place. A source familiar with Mr. Brzezinski's travel to Damascus said the visit was not coordinated with America's embassy there, but that embassy officials would be available for discussions if requested. Over that weekend, Mr. Brzezinski met with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak. Syrian press accounts said the delegation would visit Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad; vice president, Farouq al-Sharaa, and foreign minister, Walid Mouallem. Did Zbigniew Brzezinski Violate the Logan Act?   Barak Obama is campaigning in Europe, collaborating with those same entities that Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kerry, Howard Dean, Bill Nelson and Nancy Pelosi collaborated with against the State Department's wishes, yet the blind and mindless minions don't see the damage being done to their very own Congress, the presidency and their diplomatic corp. Did Barak Hussein Obama in Violate the Logan Act?   The Logan Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953,PDF. states: Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. There is a clear pattern of malfeasance if not downright treason on the part of the Democrats and not a whisper of rebuff or action from the RINO's and the Republicans, only a minor whimpering complaint. You decide if undermining the county and it's leader during wartime is a chargeable offense.