Government Threatened Foley Family Over Ransom Payments, Mother of Slain Journalist Says … Obama administration officials repeatedly threatened the family of murdered journalist James Foley that they might face criminal charges for supporting terrorism if they paid ransom to the ISIS killers …
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Fox News first reported this matter, later confirmed by the ABC, Yahoo and other news outlets:
Editor's notes: Here are a few facts the readership should know or keep in mind. Obama was given the opportunity to order the rescue of Foley and Steven Sotloff nearly three months before they were murdered, but waited for 30 days because he thinks he has time to make such critical decisions. Of course, these two brave Americans had been moved by the time Obama got off his butt and made the decision.
As far as not paying ransom: he paid $5 million to Egyptian rebels holding 9 American hostages, back in 2012, gave away 5 of the Taliban's most important leaders, and paid out another $988,000 to make the trade for the deserter, Bergdahl.
Why pay for Bergdahl but threaten the Foley's? Stupidty is my best answer.
Whether you agree with that last conclusion, you need to keep in mind the aboven mentioned facts.
The good news in all this? ABC is reporting this criminal nonsense. It is no longer Fox's battle for the truth, the networks have joined in, reluctantly, which explains why nearly 90% of the nations actually knows what is going on in the Middle East and our "war on terror." Understand that they are aware of the problem when they have no clue as to who is our Vice President.
ABC is not the only major network broadcasting this news. In a confirmation report by Yahoo, read by millions, we have this report, as well:
Yahoo: The parents of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff were told by a White House counterterrorism official at a meeting last May that they could face criminal prosecution if they paid ransom to try to free their son, a spokesman for the family told Yahoo News Friday night.
Related Stories“The family felt completely and utterly helpless when they heard this,” said Barak Barfi, a friend of Sotloff who is serving as a spokesman for his family. “The Sotloffs felt there was nothing they could do to get Steve out.”The journalist’s father, Art, was “shaking” after the meeting with the official, who works for the National Security Council, Barfi said. The families of three other hostages being held by the militant group Islamic State were also at the White House meeting, sources told Yahoo News.The Sotloff family issued their statement after Diane Foley, the mother of murdered journalist James Foley, told ABC News that her family took statements by the White House counterterrorism official about legal bars to paying ransom as a “threat, and it was appalling. … We were horrified he would say that. He just told us we would be prosecuted.”The Sotloffs “heard the same thing the Foleys did,” Barfi said in his statement to Yahoo News.
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