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White House worked secretly to delay Syria sanctions bill
The Obama White House scuttled this bipartisan legislation to placate the Assad regime as US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov negotiated a Syrian ceasefire in order to bring aid to the besieged city of Aleppo. After the ceasefire agreement was signed a little over a week ago, the Kremlin challenged the White House to publish the agreement terms. The Obama WH ignored this challenge because Obama granted numerous controversial and embarrassing concessions to the Assad/Putin axis in order to obtain the ceasefire. The Syrian military yesterday said that it considers the ceasefire to be terminated (in truth, it barely existed).
In 2013, Caesar (alias), a former Syrian security officer, smuggled out of Syria 55,000 pictures of Syrian civilians murdered by the Assad regime.
Related: Human Rights Watch | If the Dead Could Speak: Mass Deaths and Torture in Syria’s Detention Facilities Warning: Grisly
September 20, 2016
Bashar al-Assad and his patron Vladimir Putin
The White House worked behind the scenes last week to prevent a bipartisan bill to sanction the Assad regime for war crimes and atrocities against civilians from getting a vote in the House of Representatives. The Democratic leadership bowed to White House pressure and withdrew its support for voting on the bill for now. Lawmakers and congressional staff had been preparing to bring up the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act this week and pass it out of the House with relative ease. The bill, named after a Syrian defector who presented the world with 55,000 pictures documenting Assad’s mass torture and murder of civilians in custody, has more than 50 co-sponsors, a majority of whom are Democrats.
The bill would impose new sanctions on the Assad regime and its supporters, spur investigations meant to fuel the prosecution of war crimes in Syria, and encourage a process to find a negotiated solution to the crisis. Specifically, it would require the president to impose new sanctions on any entity that does business with or finances the Syrian government or its military or intelligence services, which includes Russia and Iran.
The Obama White House scuttled this bipartisan legislation to placate the Assad regime as US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov negotiated a Syrian ceasefire in order to bring aid to the besieged city of Aleppo. After the ceasefire agreement was signed a little over a week ago, the Kremlin challenged the White House to publish the agreement terms. The Obama WH ignored this challenge because Obama granted numerous controversial and embarrassing concessions to the Assad/Putin axis in order to obtain the ceasefire. The Syrian military yesterday said that it considers the ceasefire to be terminated (in truth, it barely existed).
In 2013, Caesar (alias), a former Syrian security officer, smuggled out of Syria 55,000 pictures of Syrian civilians murdered by the Assad regime.
Related: Human Rights Watch | If the Dead Could Speak: Mass Deaths and Torture in Syria’s Detention Facilities Warning: Grisly
