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Ironically, however, even as he apparently approved of this use of far-Left Catholic groups to lobby for the Iran deal, Podesta may not have been in favor of it himself. Podesta was forwarded this statement by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL): “This agreement condemns the next generation to cleaning up a nuclear war in the Persian Gulf… This is the greatest appeasement since Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler.” To that, Podesta responded simply, “Yup.” Did he mean that yes, he was agreeing with Kirk that the Iran nuclear deal was a disaster, or was he simply noting that Kirk said that? In any case, he didn’t stop his shadowy work to try to sell the deal in Congress and to the American people.

In doing so, he and his cohorts no doubt found eager help among Catholic bishops in the United States. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) faithfully toes a Leftist line in its “social teachings.” It advocated in 2015 for the U.S. to take in 100,000 Syrian refugees that year alone. The USCCB may have an ulterior motive in this, as it received $79,590,512 in 2014 – that’s right, nearly 80 million dollars — from the federal government for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration Fund