New information reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist group by the US government. Speaker Pelosi was doing this while at the same time she refused to bring a free trade agreement with Colombia up for a vote in the US House. In fact, Pelosi took extraordinary steps to block this trade agreement with America’s closest ally in South America.
Viva la Nancita!
More, h/t TopsecretK9:
In a thoughtful article in today’s Wall Street Journal Mary Anastasia O’Grady looks at some other people and organizations who had tried to put similar pressure on President Uribe and who had done their very best to undermine his government in its fight against the terrorists.
She starts with a very interesting question: how is it that the army fooled the FARC brigade so easily when pretending to be from a “humanitarian NGO”?
It may have taken years for army intelligence to infiltrate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and it may have been tough to convincingly impersonate rebels. But what seems to have been a walk in the park was getting the FARC to believe that an NGO was providing resources to help it in the dirty work of ferrying captives to a new location.
Well, yes, why was this seemingly improbable story believed? (Mind you, some of us recall the story of the Italian Red Cross using their ambulances to transport wanted terrorists in Iraq, which just proves that when NGOs do turn up in that country they cause appalling damage.)
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/7 @ 12:35 pm #
Probably not an impeachable offense, though. And censure? Why, she’s a lady. How DARE you!
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/7 @ 12:36 pm #
Sorry, but how isn’t this treason?
Seriously, if political maneuvering against the legitimate government of an ally in favor of an armed group that’s holding Americans hostage doesn’t count as “aid and comfort”, then WTF does count?
Comment by Techie on 7/7 @ 12:46 pm #
Honest-to-God Sedation.
If true, Nail her to the wall.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/7 @ 12:47 pm #
What a traitorous cooze. Baracky should take note that she’s not going to just stop being a traitorous cooze if he’s president. No. He would somehow have to learn to stand up to her and put her in her place. This would take courage on his part, cause it’s inherently confrontational. So Baracky better get used to just running his foreign policy past Nancy I guess.
Comment by Dan Collins on 7/7 @ 12:48 pm #
Alien and Sedation Act?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/7 @ 12:49 pm #
You’re assuming, ‘feet, that Baracky disagrees with Nancy’s shilling for terrorists.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/7 @ 12:50 pm #
Oh. Good point, Rob. My bad.
Comment by TmjUtah on 7/7 @ 12:50 pm #
Wait just a minute. Just because she acted to undermine U.S. foreign policy with the intent of aiding a quasi-communist/narco insurgency movement is no reason to question her…
… patriotism?
Hmmmm. She’ll play the Democrat card, though: “Feature, not bug. WTF are you looking at, bible clutcher?”.
Comment by McGehee on 7/7 @ 12:52 pm #
For the record, I think the word “enemy” in the treason provision of the Constitution, has a slightly narrower meaning than would apply here.
Although, if we acted like a real empire we would certainly have eliminated any ambiguity about FARC’s status as soon as the hostage-taking began.
Comment by McGehee on 7/7 @ 12:53 pm #
If we were a real empire, the period of time that anyone would be regarded as an “enemy” of the United States, would be about 30 to 45 minutes.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/7 @ 12:56 pm #
If the Barbary pirates were the enemies of America, then FARC are, too.
But, yeah, the odds that anything will happen are slim. Hell, she’ll probably pull in more votes in her next re-election bid.
Comment by ProggHero on 7/7 @ 12:59 pm #
Well why do I not hear this screamed from the rooftops on faux news? This must not be true then.
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 7/7 @ 1:03 pm #
This is a real eye-opener!
Comment by TmjUtah on 7/7 @ 1:05 pm #
Linked.
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 1:09 pm #
SI SE PUEDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!eleventy!1
VIVA LA REVOLUCION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!1111
VIVA LA BAMBA BURRITOS !!!!!!!!!!!1
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 1:10 pm #
There was a sale on exclamation marks today.
Comment by McGehee on 7/7 @ 1:11 pm #
There was????????????????????????????????????????
Dammit, why did I decide to stock up on question marks instead??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 7/7 @ 1:12 pm #
Don’t miss this entry via EU Referendum on the suspicious and disastrous role NGO’s play – With friends like this
Comment by McGehee on 7/7 @ 1:12 pm #
I also have a surplus of spaces. If anybody wants a few, take all you need:
Comment by McGehee on 7/7 @ 1:13 pm #
Some more:
Comment by Bohemian on 7/7 @ 1:14 pm #
This women needs to be NEWTed
Comment by BJTex on 7/7 @ 1:16 pm #
TMJ: NYT? Dickheads.
The blinding arrogance of that “justification” made my teeth hurt.
Comment by Kevin B on 7/7 @ 1:25 pm #
So, either Pelosi’s a true believer or she’s on the take.
Wait, did someone say Congresswoman Pelosi?
Follow the money!
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 1:38 pm #
Since she is doing this, can we assume she did similar things in her trip to Syria to meet with Assad??????
Helping out on the ? overstock.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/7 @ 2:03 pm #
Oh, God. You just reminded me of the overstock.com woman.
Comment by Jeff G. on 7/7 @ 2:04 pm #
Terrorist chic. Unlike paisley, it never goes out of style on the left coast.
Comment by JD on 7/7 @ 2:18 pm #
That overstock.com woman is the shizznit.
Comment by geoffb on 7/7 @ 2:23 pm #
I did not mean to derail this into an Overstock thread………………..period(sale)
Comment by Karl on 7/7 @ 2:24 pm #
That would be Sabine Ehrenfeld.
Comment by SevenEleventy on 7/7 @ 2:25 pm #
Sabine Ehrenfeld
Comment by Rob Crawford on 7/7 @ 2:38 pm #
OK, new rule — make sure “safe surf” is turned on before clicking through to a Google image search.
Oh, and Karl? As convenient as tinyurl is, it obscures the target of the link, and makes it dangerous for just that reason.
Comment by SarahW on 7/7 @ 2:47 pm #
Who’s paying her?
And who put her eyebrows on like that?
Comment by SarahW on 7/7 @ 2:47 pm #
Pelosi, that is. The crook.
Comment by Karl on 7/7 @ 2:50 pm #
Rob,
Sorry ’bout that. I use tinyurl primarily because pw’s wp setup does not like urls with ?’s in ‘em. I can get around that on threads for my posts, but not Dan’s.
Comment by Techie on 7/7 @ 3:23 pm #
Note the lack of Proggie or Cleo in these two threads. Care to defend your party’s Speaker?
Comment by TmjUtah on 7/7 @ 3:26 pm #
Second Ehrenfeld link appears to show her immediately after stopping a hot grounder to short. With her forehead. At a newd softball game.
Comment by Trimegistus on 7/7 @ 3:44 pm #
Treason. Gitmo. WATERBOARD HER!
Maybe she’ll reveal the names of some co-conspirators.
Comment by Scrapiron on 7/7 @ 3:56 pm #
If every democrat in congress who has commited treason through illegal association with terrorists, providing aid and comfort to the enemy, and leaking national security information to the NYSlimes were arrested there would be 0 democrats in congress. Democrats have all became traitors because of BDS aquired when they lost (and they did lose) the election in 2000. Nothing, not even several years in a rubber room, will help them.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/7 @ 3:58 pm #
Treason is specifically limited by definition in the US Constitution.
There are other things such as sedition that are statutorily defined, though. How far can you disagree with the policy of the government of your country, as a citizen and member of that government before you cross into sedition?
Advocating for a change of policy is permitted and necessary; providing physical aid is not permitted. How far over the line does this fall for each of the named members of Congress? Be interesting to find out.
Comment by ushie on 7/7 @ 4:17 pm #
Well, if she is going for equality in the Benedict Arnold sweepstakes, I’d say she’s a winnah!
Comment by narciso on 7/7 @ 4:21 pm #
palomino! as they say this behavior “is not a bug it’s a feature” for 44 years, the FARC then the ELN and the
M-19 have been waging war on Colombia; one of the rewards were the price supports for American cotton, that led ‘bolivian marching powder’ to be the major export; this was due in large part to the efforts of Luther Hodges, Kennedy’s former Commerce Secretary from North Carolina. The first tentative steps toward counter insurgency began in that era; it took another decade, and a guerilla offensive. encouraged by one of those pacifist Colombian presidents; created the rise of the urban paramilitaries
Comment by Karl on 7/7 @ 4:51 pm #
Scrapiron,
It can’t all be BDS, as a number of my examples go back to the 1980s.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/7 @ 5:21 pm #
After 44 years you would think it is time for the revolution to either fish or cut bait. Because the original revolutionaries (if any are left) are getting a little long in the tooth.
Comment by ahem on 7/7 @ 6:07 pm #
FARC Nancy Pelosi.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/7 @ 7:05 pm #
“If any are left!”
Ha! Get it? If any are…
Okay, I’ll be good…
Comment by narciso on 7/7 @ 7:40 pm #
Well Marulanda, the last of the original crew, went the way of the “Norwegian blue, pining for the fjords,” most
of the midlevel officials are either dead or captured. The new head of the FARC; Alfonso Cano, is a former university student; perpetual grad student. The other other hardliner, Mono Jojoy, is an elusive character. They’re are the very much the real life version of the
crew in “Proof of Life”.
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