"media protection of the most corrupt presidency ever"

What do you know about Project Cassandra? Don Surber reports,

Politico reported, "The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities."

The investigation began under President George Walker Bush. Obama stopped it as a favor to his friends, the ayatollahs.

The story said investigators "followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.

"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."

By definition, presidents cannot commit obstruction of justice. The Constitution makes the president the federal government's chief executive officer. As CEO, he gives the agencies their marching orders. There is no such thing as an independent agency.

But the press can shine the spotlight on those decisions. Ignoring the demise of Project Cassandra is more evidence of media protection of the most corrupt presidency ever.

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