Phil Haney Discussed Project Cassandra, Hezbollah Drug Trafficking and Muslim Brotherhood w/ Doug Hagmann

(video from June 4, 2018)

Phil Haney discussed Project Cassandra, the DEA investigation into Hezbollah running drugs from Venezuela. Discussed the Obama administration aiding Muslim Brotherhood entry and ideology into the US; the impact on domestic terrorism, establishing the Iran Deal and moral within federal law enforcement agencies. He discussed Rep Bachmann’s open letter in 2012. He discusses the need to restore government to the ideals set in US Constitution. President Trump’s policies seem radical to the media because government has strayed so far from the US Constitution.

Informative interview on the Obama foreign policies that President Trump is working to correct, including the current drug trafficking intervention. ThanQ Anon for the video link. >>8717931

Setting the News Cycle Straight

Official Hagmann Report June 4 2018 Haney interview @ 2hr 5min (1 hr)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c35VNno3zeA

Background:

Project Cassandra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cassandra

Project Cassandra is an effort led by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to undercut Hezbollah funding from illicit drug sources.[1] Launched in 2008, the project was said to be investigating the terrorist organization's funding.[2] According to the DEA, Hezbollah has become increasingly involved with drug trafficking and organized crime as a method of funding its activities.[3][4][5] The investigation was tracking how large sums of money were being laundered from the Americas, through Africa, and to Lebanon into Hezbollah's coffers.[6] The Obama administration halted Project Cassandra as it was approaching the upper echelons of Hezbollah's conspiracy in order to seal a nuclear deal with Iran, even though Hezbollah was still funneling cocaine into America.[7]

Josh Meyer wrote an investigative report published by Politico in December 2017, described how, during the Obama administration, concerns regarding the Iran nuclear deal took precedence over the DEA project.[2]

Recommended reading on Project Cassandra, long article:

The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

(Josh Meyer Politico 2017)

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

An ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah's billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House's desire for a nuclear deal with Iran.

Topic Headings

Part I A GLOBAL THREAT EMERGES

How Hezbollah turned to trafficking cocaine and laundering money through used cars to finance its expansion.

Part II Everywhere and Nowhere

From its headquarters in the Middle East, Hezbollah extends its criminal reach to Latin America, Africa and the United States.

Part III A battle against enemies far and near

As negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal intensify, the administration pushes back against Project Cassandra.

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The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

(Josh Meyer Politico 2017) (continued)

Article Side Notes and Players:

David Asher

Veteran U.S. illicit finance expert sent from Pentagon to Project Cassandra to attack the alleged Hezbollah criminal enterprise.

John Brennan

Obama's White House counterterrorism adviser, who became CIA director in 2013.

Ali Fayad

(aka Fayyad). Ukraine-based arms merchant suspected of being a Hezbollah operative moving large amounts of weapons to Syria.

The Ghost

One of the most mysterious alleged associates of Safieddine, secretly indicted by the U.S., linked to multi-ton U.S.-bound cocaine loads and weapons shipments to Middle East.

Abdallah Safieddine

Hezbollah’s longtime envoy to Iran who allegedly oversaw the group's “Business Affairs Component” involved in international drug trafficking.

John “Jack” Kelly

DEA agent overseeing Hezbollah cases at Special Operations Division, who named task force Project Cassandra after clashes with other U.S. agencies about Hezbollah drug-terror links.

Derek Maltz

Senior DEA official who as head of Special Operations Division lobbied for support for Project Cassandra and its investigations.

Operation Titan

A joint investigation with Colombian authorities into a global money-laundering and drug-trafficking alliance between Latin American traffickers and Lebanese operatives.

Imad Mughniyeh

A Hezbollah mastermind who oversaw its international operations and, the DEA says, its drug trafficking, as head of its military wing, the Islamic Jihad Organization.

Viktor Anatolyevich Bout

Vladimir Putin's arms dealer, known as the "Lord of War." Convicted of conspiracy to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to Colombian narcoterrorists.

Adham Tabaja

Lebanese businessman, alleged co-leader of Hezbollah Business Affairs Component and key figure directly tying Hezbollah’s commercial and terrorist activities.

Ayman Saied Joumaa

Accused drug kingpin and financier whose vast network allegedly smuggled tons of cocaine into the U.S. with Mexico’s Zetas cartel and laundered money.

RICO case

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act increases the severity of penalties for crimes committed in as part of organized crime.

Lisa Monaco

Lisa Monaco replaced John Brennan as the White House counterterrorism and homeland security adviser.

Jack Riley

Top DEA special agent who helped run the drug agency during the Obama administration's tenure.

Matthew Levitt

Former top Treasury financial intelligence official, FBI analyst whose book on Hezbollah and its global activities sounded early alarms about its drug trafficking.

Kassim Tajideen

An alleged top financier for Hezbollah, whose global business empire allegedly acted as a key source of funds for its global terror network.

Tareck El Aissami

Venezuelan vice president involved in alleged decade-long drugs, weapons and fake passport conspiracy between Caracas government, Hezbollah and Iran.

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Project Cassandra additional article

PROJECT CASSANDRA – OBAMA BLOCKED KEY DEA HEZBOLLAH INVESTIGATION FOR IRAN NUKE DEAL

(Dec 17 2017)

https://news.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/project-cassandra-obama-blocked-key-dea-hezbollah-investigation-for-iran-nuke-deal/

The DEA was actively working on an investigation known as Project Cassandra, which targeted Hezbollah operatives in the US that were acting as a crime syndicate. The terror organization trafficked drugs, weapons, and committed money laundering. The Obama administration began blocking their every move, and eventually they had to shut the project down.

“This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision. They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced, and it was done from the top down.” David Asher Veteran U.S. illicit finance expert

In a comprehensive report, Politico revealed that Hezbollah was linked to a $436+ Million money laundering scheme which the DEA was investigating (read the document from 2011 here). “Project Cassandra” followed cocaine shipments, tracked money even to the hands of the “innermost circle of Hezbollah.” But as they got closer, the Obama administration began throwing roadblocks.

Politico reported,

“But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.

The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.”

In other words, the DEA investigation was a “competing agenda” as Politico put it. Hezbollah is backed by Iran. They have grown into a powerful terror organization, and it appears that the Obama administration helped them along. They have become a formidable army with rockets and missiles and “more heavy armaments” than most other nation states, according to the article. What’s the price of diplomacy? When it’s used to trade off terrorism and international crime in favor of a spurious deal, that price tag becomes extreme.

Building up a terror organization

John Brennan, Obama’s security chief told reporters back in 2010, that they were looking for ways to build up the “moderate elements” of Hezbollah (Reuters).

Let’s make this perfectly clear: you can’t “build up” any portion of a terror organization and expect it to suddenly become moderate. If the tree is diseased, it needs to be removed, not fertilized.

The agenda of the Obama administration to assist our enemies has been a deadly one. When arms dealers like Ali Fayed were indicted, for example, the Obama administration dragged their feet on getting him extradited and now he is reportedly back in business.

“…under the Obama administration … these [Hezbollah-related] investigations were tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.” Katherine Bauer testimony to Congress Feb, 2017

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Project Cassandra additional article

HEZBOLLAH SMUGGLED TONS OF COCAINE INTO THE U.S. DURING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, REPORT REVEALS

(newsweek Dec 18 2017)

https://www.newsweek.com/hezbollah-cocaine-smuggle-united-states-obama-751928

The Islamist militant group Hezbollah exploded into a major cocaine trafficker for the United States over the past decade—and it happened under former President Barack Obama's watch to help score a nuclear deal with Iran, a report revealed Monday.

Project Cassandra, a campaign launched by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2008, found that the Iran-backed military and political organization collected $1 billion a year from money laundering, criminal activities, and drug and weapons trade, according to Politico. Over the following eight years, the agency found that Hezbollah was involved in cocaine shipments from Latin America to West Africa, as well as through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States.

The Obama administration halted Project Cassandra as it was approaching the upper echelons of Hezbollah's conspiracy in order to seal a nuclear deal with Iran, even though Hezbollah was still funneling cocaine into America. Officials at the U.S. Justice and Treasury departments delayed the project's requests to conduct relevant investigations, prosecutions and arrests. Obama eventually helped strike the Iran deal with several other nations in 2015.

Because of the project's sudden end, it is hard to determine how much cocaine has come into the U.S. from Hezbollah-affiliated networks. But through Venezuela alone, Hezbollah sent thousands of tons to the United States in a matter of years.

The Obama administration also did not move forward to extradite two Venezuelan citizens who were deeply involved between the South American country, Hezbollah, Iran and drug trafficking: businessman Walid Makled and former chief of intelligence Hugo Carvajal.

In the years after the 9/11 attacks, Iran and Hezbollah's influence in Latin America thrived with the help of populist leaders. Venezuela's then-President Hugo Chávez worked alongside Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah on drug trade and other activities to weaken the U.S. clout in the region. Within a few years, cocaine trafficking from Venezuela to the U.S. soared from 50 tons a year to 250 tons, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Statistics.

The findings corroborate that the rise of populism in Latin America was fertile ground for Iran and Hezbollah's intentions. Earlier this year, the U.S. State Department found that Hezbollah strengthened its relationship with Mexican and Colombian cartels and established operations in Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil and Venezuela's island of Margarita.

In February, the Trump administration sanctioned Venezuelan officials, including acting Vice President Tareck El Aissami, due to his alleged role in Hezbollah's money laundering. El Aissami "facilitated shipments of narcotics from Venezuela … He oversaw or partially owned narcotic shipments of over 1,000 kilograms from Venezuela on multiple occasions, including those with final destinations of Mexico and the United States," the Treasury Department said.

Hezbollah's activities in Latin America potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security. "Though U.S. authorities know that Hezbollah's terror finance operations in Latin America are a growing threat, to date they have not been able to estimate its value accurately," Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Hill.

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The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

(Josh Meyer Politico 2017)

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