Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Republican foreign policy leaders in Congress are demanding a formal investigation into John Kerry following revelations he informed Iranian leaders about covert Israeli military operations.
A leaked audio recording of Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif, who worked closely with Kerry when the 2015 nuclear accord was negotiated, catches the Iranian official claiming the former Obama administration secretary of state informed him about at least 200 Israeli strikes on Iranian military positions in Syria. That Kerry shared these intimate details “to his astonishment,” according to the New York Times, suggests Kerry may have been disclosing classified information. It would also represent a stunning betrayal of America’s closest Middle East ally. Israel relies on the United States to protect shared intelligence from its top regional enemy.
The revelation is already generating calls for Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, to resign from the Biden administration and face a congressional investigation for possibly spilling highly classified secrets to one of America’s leading enemies.
Former Trump administration secretary of state Mike Pompeo said the audio tape proves “what I’ve said for years: That [Zarif] continued to engage with former secretary of state Kerry on policy matters after Kerry’s public service and, according to Zarif, Kerry informed the Iranians of Israeli operations.”
“Before we cut a deal with Iran that reduces Americans’ security,” Pompeo said, “it would be good to know what the arrangement, if any, may have been between these two leaders.”
Kerry denies. He denies a lot of stuff. The Swift Boaters saved America — for a time.
Plot twist!
Related: Navy releases video of Iranian warship harassing US Coast Guard ship in Persian Gulf
Four years ago this kind of news would have led to endless howling for heads and an impeachment from the pack.
I’m going to guess any coverage will paint this Orange man bad and it will vanish from msm in 48 hours.
Me. Ketchup will be protected.
Yes but Michael Flynn was a high risk to the National Security.
Does nobody see how evil these Dems are?!
The lying assholes would have impeached Flynn if they could, but he wasn’t in office yet. Ironically, criminals went after him.
Using Dem standards, Kerry should first be impeached and as a consequence removed from his present Air Czar position.
He should also be charged under the Logan Act, as finally we have a real case, as Pompeo pointed out, Kerry continued contact with the Iranian government, and any reasonable person could assume he was making promises, like Obama, to be kept “after (the) election (when) I have more flexibility”.
Except he did it as a private citizen. DeMarxists would salivate at this opportunity; if it were Pompeo, they’d milk it for years.
Envoy that you self-aggrandizing Chamberlain. Kerry manages to be wrong on both ends of that turd, which has no clean end.
A total charlatan and one of those people who I’m convinced have others pulling the strings and working behind the scenes to guide and groom him to where he is now.
From his Winter Soldier testimony and throwing other soldier’s medals over the WH fence…to his claim that he resigned from the Vietnam Veterans Against the War after a narrowly defeated vote to assassinate several U.S. Senators, yet oddly, no resignation letter can be found.
And then there’s the claims from fellow Swift boaters of a a self inflicted gunshot to his foot to get out of Vietnam and which he received the Purple Heart and an honorable discharge. Of course his Navy records are sealed for eternity.
Shorter story – a bald faced liar.
1967: Israel attacks an intelligence gathering boat to protect information about the upcoming annexation of the Golan Heights.
2021: Israel tells Kerry, big-time advocate of lifting sanctions against Iran, about upcoming military operations in Iran.
Not passing the smell test.
1967 – America embargoes arms sales to Israel.
USS Liberty is attacked by Israeli pilots flying French Dassault Mirage III fighters.
1968 – America reconsiders arms embargo on Israel
You haven’t got the story right. Kerry was aware of Israeli activities while Secretary of State, not today’s useless climate boob.
AsI said, impeach him now for his breaches of security as SofState, and charge him under Logan Act for private citizen stupidity.
Sorry I don’t have MY story straight, he was former secretary of state when he talked about air strikes.
If classified then, he’s a goner imho, or should be, except in dystopic Bidenland of open borders and guarded legislatures.
So, now we Logan Act 100%, incontrovertible perhaps, then he can be impeached later, like 2023 by a GOP Congress.
This still calls for years of hearings, indictments, show trials, illegal wiretaps, perjury traps, sedition, and breathless reporting by the media of imminent “obstruction of justice charges” (oh yes, that old saw). It’s known as political equity.
They would not have told him directly, they would have shared intel with US agencies. Kerry would have to access that info through his position.
This meets the definition of treason under US law.
Veterans know John Kerry is a lying Cockroach.
But as luck would have it,
Cockroaches will probably be the only fifthly things to survive a nuclear war.
1967, johnson the johnson used the Israelis to attack the USS Liberty, so he could blame Egypt, and then retaliate using nukes. He had the planes loaded with nukes no the way, before he discovered the ship did not sink, and they were recalled . They had also recalled the fighters that were sent to aid the USS Liberty. It’s what you call a faults flag operation.
When I have seen the title of the thread I have immediately thought you were uniquely qualified to comment on it.
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The term is “false flag.”
That kind of behavior typifies Massachusetts’s Senators. Ted Kennedy went to Moscow twice to advise Gorbachev on how to undermine President Reagan and then there was his Father Joe and the Nazis. Dems are OK with it.
One might be inclined to think that John Kerry was a traitor to the US.
But that would mean he would have had to have sworn allegiance to it.
He did. When he entered the U.S. Navy and swore allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.
Non-story. Republican faux-outrage.
Israel’s own former air force chief, and Israel’s own intelligence minister, and Israel’s own military, already publicly disclosed this themselves back in 2017 and 2018.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-israel-syria-iran/israel-says-struck-iranian-targets-in-syria-200-times-in-last-two-years-idUSKCN1LK2D7
Weird that he vehemently denies it then.
benny, butt Gen Flynn suffered 4 years of prosecution, for doing nothing that was supposed to be disclosure of info. So yes it’s a big story. And fuck off you libtard!
Kerry was a traitor in the Vietnam era and is a traitor today.
I’m so old I remember a big fuss about the Logan Act or some such.
Why would Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif intentionally compromise his Secret American source? Of course all involved would deny the revelation.
Kerry and Zarif are singing out of the same hymn book and script.
They both know how to explode a bomb and then deny it was even ever dropped.
Kenji, maybe to get it out there because it was going to happen any way?
That … IS … a possibility. Loose lips
The man is a complete bag of scum.
If he did not marry well, he would be on the skid row in San Francisco taking soma.
Its quite unbelievable how low life like this guy gets into running world affairs for the US.
Something along what Brooks sung:
Hey, I didn’t mean to cause a big scene
Just give me an hour and then
Well, I’ll be as high as that ivory tower
That you’re livin’ in
‘Cause I’ve got friends in low places
Yeah, the guy has all kinds of friends in low places that help him into the ivory towers.
Kerry was doing that openly during Trump’s administration. Hatch Act violation, possibly treason.
Sorry, Logan Act.
ANOTHER LEAKED AUDIO: John Kerry’s 2016 Meeting with Syrian “Revolutionaries” Pushing for US Bomb Attacks on Syria (AUDIO)
By Jim Hoft
Published April 27, 2021 at 8:46am
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/another-leaked-audio-john-kerrys-2016-meeting-syrian-revolutionaries-pushing-us-bomb-attacks-syria-audio/
Hang Him High – literally – and if its discovered later that might have been a bit harsh, then say sorry. That’s what Dems do metaphorically all the time.
Then say “traitor deserved it anyway” feed his carcass to pigs.
Meh. On any given subject, there are two kinds of people. Those who see the truth, and those who are convinced of the correctness of their position with a fanatical devotion that cannot be swayed (and makes Jonestown look like children’s entertainment).
There is a substantial part of the American populace, who is in the second group for all things political. Democrats can do not wrong, and there is nothing that will change their position. People from this group infest all levels of government, and all branches. They infest the media, education, unions, non-profits, corporations, … .
What is required to change this? Something on the level of the firebombing of Dresden, or Hiroshima, in terms of ugliness. Too few have the stomach, so it will never be done.
Maybe Lois Lerner can be put in charge of the official inquiry.
Much the same could be said for Canada.
Kevin in time for UDI
You have, with absolute precision, described the basis for my decision to stop sending alt-news links to my tiny and shrinking circle of friends, family and acquaintances. A complete waste of time.
That said, you need a different hobby horse and handle. UDI is a horse to nowhere. The spirit to achieve this is absent.
The Undertaker is merely terrible at anything he undertakes except marrying into money.
Obama effed up bigly. He thought he could just walk into Syria and start wrecking shop like he did in Libya.
Forgetting that Russia has been Syria’s ally since the cold war.
“Navy releases video of Iranian warship harassing US Coast Guard ship in Persian Gulf”
The Coast Guard is part of the DHS.
The Navy is part of the DoD.
So, a Navy warship stood by and watched while the IRGC harassed a Coast Guard ship.
I guess the only thing Biden can do is send a few pallet loads of cash to the Iranians.
The Biden admin. is more of a danger to America than the Iranians are, just like the Trudeau gov’t is more of a danger to Canada than the Chinese are.
Kerry started his public career as a traitor and never changed.
What’s a Coast Guard ship doing in the Persian Gulf?
Signed
USCG veteran. 1959-1967
I thought the same thing, but a bit of research showed that the USCGs role is to defend American interests in domestic and international waters. Not sure when it changed just from domestic waters.
8,000 of them were in Vietnam. There is no war in the Persian Gulf.
What’s a Coast Guard ship doing in the Persian Gulf?
It’s obviously not stopping human and drug trafficking in the USA. The Dems have got to keep their cash flows going.
My cynical side sees this as just one more very bad thing a Democrat is going to get away with.
Sure. He’ll appear before Congress. And we’ll hear Jean Heinz-Querie drone on and on in his faux New England accent about “cutting out eyes, cutting off ears, cutting off noses reminiscent of Dchinghis Khaaaaaaaan!”
Kerry is anti-American and anti-Israel.
The Democrat party is anti-American and anti-Israel.
The Democrat party is in total control.
Nothing will happen to him.
Bombing Syria is against American and western interests, and works in favor of Israeli interests, so looks like your half right.
How is bombing the shithole of Syria bad for US? It pisses Pootin off so it is at least good for that.
John Kerry doesn’t need the money, his wife Theresa Heinz provides all he’ll ever need.
That leaves hatred of Israel, or Jews, or the ability for him to use inside info in trade for respect amongst the Iranians.
Does he enjoy a special friendship with Valerie Jarrett?
So which was it?
Marc, and kerry is Jewish by birth!
Isn’t Kerry’s daughter married to some big-wig from Iran?
Shrug. He did his best to consign the Magnitsky Act to terminal limbo so that Obammy could plant his lips on Putin’s arse. And neither he nor Hildebeast nor Obammy suffered a column of bad press for that evil subversion.
So this latest revelation about consorting with the enemy is no surprise … and the outcome won’t be either.
I’m sure the Mossad can deal with Herman Munster. Kerry is the kind of clown who, being an American during WWII would have passed on the Normandy invasion plans on to the Nazis.
“I’m sure the Mossad can deal with Herman Munster”
Heh. Maybe they already are: leaked audio.
Or, it could be Poutine, or perhaps the Persians … either side.
Hey Kerry, why the long face?
Shoot first, apologize later!
“The Iranian ship’s actions forced the U.S. ship to conduct a defensive maneuver to avoid a collision.”
Hopefully that never happens again.
A US Captain will hopefully hold steady and ram the Iranian ship.
Careerists and bureaucrats would lose their minds and it might gain some uncomfortable attention for the Biden administration.
In other words, to see that courage from the US Navy would be great.