Obama: No, I Didn’t Interfere With That Agreement, I Interfered With a Different One

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  September 17th at 09:24 AM  | 

Amir Taheri broke the news the other day that Senator Obama tried to delay an agreement on the troop levels in Iraq. This brought up the question of “Did Obama violate the Logan Act?”. As I stated the other day, Obama’s clearest defense of the Logan Act would be to claim that he was under the authority of the State Department (a highly dubious outcome). | Read More »

Obama and the Logan Act

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  September 15th at 11:00 PM  | 

The Charges In the September 15th edition of the New York Post, Amir Taheri reports that Senator Obama attempted to influence the Iraqi government with regard to the troop withdrawals from Iraq. According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July. “He asked why we were not prepared | Read More »