While leaving multiple white male Americans behind in Russian prisons, Biden undermined national security, freeing the ‘Merchant of Death’, an arms dealer with reported ties to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, who had been busted trying to sell surface-to-air missiles to Marxist narcoterrorists to kill Americans.
Defense officials are anonymously objecting to the treasonous move that rewards Putin while endangering American lives.
“I think there is a concern that [he] would return to doing the same kind of work that he’s done in the past,” said one senior Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic.
It took a lot of work to put him away that Biden squandered to pander to his racist base.
Former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials who were involved in the effort to bring “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout to justice have characterized his trade to Russia for WNBA star Brittney Griner’s freedom as a “disgrace” and a “grave threat” to U.S national security.
“Americans should be very careful traveling around the world. This decision has put Americans at a huge risk,” Maltz tweeted Thursday, calling Bout’s arrest a “total disgrace.” He had supervised the agents who secured Bout’s arrest in Thailand in 2008. Before his release, Bout was serving a 25-year sentence in federal prison for his 2011 conviction on charges of conspiracy to kill Americans relating to the support of a Colombian terrorist organization.
But Biden is talking again about depriving Americans of their right to bear arms even after freeing the world’s most prolific arms trafficker.
A day before finalizing his dirty deal with Putin, Biden attended the 10th Annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence claiming that “our work continues to limit the number of bullets that can be in a cartridge, the type of weapon that can be purchased and sold, attempt to ban assault weapons, a whole range of things – It’s just common sense.”
What’s actually common sense is not setting loose the world’s most prolific arms trafficker. Including one who tried to sell 30,000 AK-47s to kill Americans.
Between November 2007 and March 2008, Bout agreed to sell to the FARC millions of dollars’ worth of weapons – including 800 surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), 30,000 AK-47 firearms, 10 million rounds of ammunition, five tons of C-4 plastic explosives, “ultralight” airplanes outfitted with grenade launchers and unmanned aerial vehicles. Bout agreed to sell the weapons to two confidential sources working with the DEA (the “CSs”), who represented that they were acquiring them for the FARC, with the specific understanding that the weapons were to be used to attack U.S. helicopters in Colombia.
During a covertly recorded meeting in Thailand on March 6, 2008, Bout stated to the CSs that he could arrange to airdrop the arms to the FARC in Colombia, and offered to sell two cargo planes to the FARC that could be used for arms deliveries. He also provided a map of South America and asked the CSs to show him American radar locations in Colombia. Bout said that he understood that the CSs wanted the arms to use against American personnel in Colombia, and advised that, “we have the same enemy,” referring to the United States. He also stated that the FARC’s fight against the United States was also his fight and that he had been “fighting the United States…for 10 to 15 years.” During the meeting, he also offered to provide people to train the FARC in the use of the arms.
Beyond Americans, there’s a lot of blood on Bout and now Biden’s dirty hands.
David M. Crane, the founding chief prosecutor of the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone, saw the results of Bout’s arms dealing in West Africa up close.
“He was truly a monster in his own right,” Crane told VOA. “This is someone who spread his arms and ammunition around the world, in very dark corners of the world, causing pain and suffering wherever he went.”
Crane, who went on to found the non-profit Global Accountability Network, which seeks justice for the victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity, said that the destruction wrought in Sierra Leone by the forces Bout armed was extensive.
“He was the main supplier of arms and ammunition…to that terrible conflict in West Africa, which saw the murder, rape, maiming and mutilation of over 1.2 million human beings,” Chase said.
The Left, which claims to care about such things, doesn’t give a damn.
What’s the murder, rape, maiming and mutilation of over 1.2 million human beings when you can get Brittney Griner to jeer the National Anthem some more?
And after freeing Bout for his own political gain, Biden will call for banning Americans from owning guns.
But the only weapons Biden actually wants to ban are those belonging to the law-abiding middle-class Americans that he and his socialist movement seek to eliminate in one way or another.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao was also into Gun Control and gun bans
Typical Russian strategy. One can already see it during the “Great Game” historical period (I was lucky enough to read a long book about it once).
Interesting that the only people the democrats want around them with guns, are people just like themselves but, those people are going to be armed. That is why there is no peace or tranquility in communism, those who they trust to watch their backs will be those who will also be looking to put a knife or bullet in the same backs they are supposed to protect. But, that is communism, just like the democrat party.
That’s a good point, there is no 100% security.
Huey Long died from a .45 caliber slug to the torso.
His purported assassin carried a .38 caliber revolver.
All Long’s body guards had .45 caliber automatics.
This is just a terrible argument filled with hyperbole, bile and, hatred. There is no relationship between the prisoner swap and the attempt at taking assault rifles off American streets, other than you oppose them both.
Biden does not want to ban Americans from owning guns. That is a lie. Biden wants to ban private citizens from owning assault rifles, which are weapons of war, and which are used in this country to kill civilians on a regular basis. Is it possible to have a reasonable conversation about gun control in this country without calling your opponents evil or Nazis? Are you interested in having a reasonable conversation?
Reasonable conversation is a laudable goal.
Provocation is not.
Are aware you appear as fraudulent or nursing mental health issues?
Or am I alone in my impression?
Are you aware you appear…
WRONG! But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt if you can describe exactly what makes a gun an assault rifle.
Torturing the truth is not good sport. Making words into silly putty is fit for demagogues not reasonable people. Rifles are as much weapons of war as knifes, but then again so are pens and newspapers. You have paraded your credentials, demonstrated your intent. Why not just deckare yourself an proud Obamista and haul hih the Marxist flag?
@Mickorn
Part 1
“This is just a terrible argument filled with hyperbole, bile and, hatred.”
Then you should be able to explain how. Preferably point by point.
” There is no relationship between the prisoner swap and the attempt at taking assault rifles off American streets, other than you oppose them both.”
Riiight. Because Viktor Bout never, ever, Ever dealt weapons to American nationals, especially not street gangs. Oh wait, he did. As well as even worse groups like Al Qaeda.
So there obviously is a tie.
It points to Biden’s hypocrisy, as well as yours.
Especially since the right to keep and bear arms is a constitutional right, and if anything has been interpreted much too narrowly in recent years. There is no constitutional right to have State Department move heaven and earth to release you from a crime you committed even if it means freeing a state-sponsored terrorist like Bout.
@Mickorn
Part 2
“Biden does not want to ban Americans from owning guns.”
Riiight. Because the word of a psychopathic plagarist who lied about everything from his political opponents wanting to put Black Americans back in Chains, to where he got info from a speech from, to his wife being killed by a drunk driver (when she was in fact the drunk driver) can be so, so trrusted.
Not.
“That is a lie.”
No, you are a liar.
” Biden wants to ban private citizens from owning assault rifles, ”
Citizens have been unable to own assault rifles for decades. Meaning this is a lie from you and other leftists.
“which are weapons of war,”
A completely meaningless statement. Semi-automatic pistols are weapons of war and common issue with most militaries, but they are still legal. As they should be.
Moreover, the Founders firmly believed that private citizens should be able to keep and own CANNONS.
Part 3
“and which are used in this country to kill civilians on a regular basis. ”
So are knives and pistols and cars. All of which are perfectly legal as they should be.
“Is it possible to have a reasonable conversation about gun control in this country without calling your opponents evil or Nazis? ”
It is, but not with a psychopathic gaslighter like yourself.
“Are you interested in having a reasonable conversation?”
Not with you. Because leaving aside how I do not think you are capable of such a thing, your dishonesty and incompetence leads me to believe nothing would be gained even if such a thing was held with you.
Thanks Tortoise Herder!!!
Thank you kindly.
there’s a movie where only those in authority have guns – it’s called ‘Shindler’s List’ – get back to mommy’s basement, dummy
You’re lying again. No military in the world uses the AR-15. Dems are incapable of having a reasonable or honest conversation on gun control.
Please define “assault rifle”.
Take your time. I’ll wait.
You don’t know what you’re talking about.
JB “our work continues to limit the number of bullets that can be in a cartridge”
I hate to admit it, but Biden sometimes makes me grin from ear to …uh… you know the thing, when he speaks about subjects he doesn’t know anything about. The word he should have used is MAGAZINE.
JB “It’s just common sense.” — A concept that leaves Joe lost in the dust.
BTW Add “fully automatic” between 30,000 and AK47s to kill Americans.
Sometimes his handlers bungle the translations.
Some instructions are more complex than
We have Naked Corruption like Vince Lombardi had colon cancer.
JB is to “Firearms”what a gardener is to “Physices”?????????????
who wants to ban semi-auto weapons? xo biden is an irrelevant nobody who has no say in anything. least of all how i will defend my family and property
Let’s ban LeftTwat gun thieves instead of inanimate objects