Sen. Tom Cotton, (R-Ark.) called out Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as “reckless” over email discussions that were received on her private email server about an Iranian scientist who was executed last week.
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Hillary Clinton and her private server have once again surfaced.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the transfer settled a long-standing Iranian legal claim and was negotiated on a separate track from the nuclear agreement which was opposed by hawks in both Washington and Tehran. Amiri is believed to have given some information on some of Iran’s nuclear program to the United States. “I think her judgement is not suited to keep this country safe”.
Shahram Amiri, 38, was a university researcher who worked for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. He is treated this way until recently when he is arrested tried and executed.
Amiri defected to the United States, according to US officials, but then returned to Iran where he was hailed as a hero in 2010. Two weeks later, he entered the Pakistani Embassy in Washington D.C. and said he wanted to return to Iran.
In one of the videos, Amiri claimed the Central Intelligence Agency kidnapped him during his pilgrimage and he was kept in Tucson, AZ where they tortured him and applied psychological pressure.
Amiri had disappeared in 2009 while on pilgrimage to Mecca. This could lead to problematic news stories in the next 24 hours. At the end of the month, a third video was posted in which he claimed he escaped USA custody and was in Virginia. “These are decisions that are his alone to make”.
“By taking his family hostage, exerting pressure on his family and making bogus promises, the regime compelled Amiri to return to Iran in 2010, but imprisoned him despite promises to the contrary”, it said.
The Associated Press quoted Iranian judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi as saying that Shahram Amiri “had access to the country’s secret and classified information” and “had been linked to our hostile and No. 1 enemy, America, the Great Satan”.
An email forwarded to Clinton by senior adviser Jake Sullivan on July 5, 2010 – just 10 days before Amiri returned to Tehran – appears to reference the scientist. “He provided the enemy with vital and secret information of the country”.
In July when FBI Director James Comey announced charges would not be brought against Clinton for storing top secret, classified information on a private email server, which put the lives of human intelligence sources around the world at serious risk, he said although the FBI couldn’t find evidence of a hack on the server, it would be hard to tell if there had been a breach by professional and bad state actors. Our person won’t be able to do anything anyway.
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The senator said this lapse proves she is not capable of keeping the country safe.
