Politico's bombshell report published yesterday alleging that the Obama administration ripped apart a government law enforcement program that was probing the terrorist group Hezb'allah's criminal networks around the world is being denied by former Obama officials. The thrust of the three-part exposé is that the government had initiated a huge investigation into drug-running, arms-smuggling, human trafficking, and other criminal enterprises that Hezb'allah was profiting from around the world.  That probe was squashed by the White House in order to curry favor with Iran so that a deal on the Iranian nuclear program could be achieved. The Obama administration believed cracking down on Hezbollah's trafficking would undermine nuclear negotiations. As David Asher, a former Pentagon illicit finance analyst and a key player in Operation Cassandra, told Meyer: "This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision. They serially...(Read Full Post)