But they got the money
Is this the most bizarre way to do official US government business ever in the history of this country? From Joel Gehrke at National Review:
State Department: Iran Deal Is Not ‘Legally Binding’ and Iran Didn’t Sign It
President Obama didn’t require Iranian leaders to sign the nuclear deal that his team negotiated with the regime, and the deal is not “legally binding,” his administration acknowledged in a letter to Representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) obtained by National Review. “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document,” wrote Julia Frifield, the State Department assistant secretary for legislative affairs, in the November 19 letter.
. . . by characterizing the JCPOA as a set of “political commitments” rather than a more formal agreement, it is sure to heighten congressional concerns that Iran might violate the deal’s terms.
What we seem to have here is, to use the favorite term of the Obama administration, a huge and extraordinarily dangerous “NOTHINGBURGER”!
In other words there is nothing in this piece of toilet paper that binds Iran to anything; the sanctions are lifted, Iran is receiving the $ billions which had been withheld; and we have a piece of worthless paper and a really rigorous inspection regime . . . comparable no doubt to the rigorous vetting of Syrian “refugees”.
Even if sanctions “snap back” they have their money and their bomb.
This would be considered an elaborate prank if it did not involve such a serious matter executed by a devious and unserious president and his administration.
If Congress has no recourse, whatsoever, to stop this thing, then this country is now formally in the hands of a dictatorship.
There is thus nothing to stop the typical crackdown on “dissidents” which every dictatorship undertakes to strengthen its hold on the populace.
Is that a wacky, fringe-type conclusion? I guess we’ll see…before Nov. 2016!
DLH
