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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHILLARY re : 47 Traitors: 'Either trying to be helpful to Iranians or harmful to Commander-in-Chief'
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton on Tuesday addressed the growing controversy over a letter that Senate Republicans wrote to Iranian leaders, which critics are calling a partisan move to scuttle White House negotiations with a foreign government.
"A recent letter from Republican senators was out of step with the best traditions of American leadership, and one has to ask, what was the purpose of this letter?" Clinton said at a press conference at the U.N. in New York.
"Either these senators were trying to be helpful to the Iranians or harmful to commander-in-chief in middle of high stakes international diplomacy," the likely 2016 presidential candidate added, arguing that the move discredited the letter's signatories.
The letter, signed by forty-seven Republican senators, sparked a firestorm earlier this week by suggesting that any deal reached with the Obama administration over Iran's nuclear program would not be constitutionally binding, since a future president or Congress could take steps to revoke the agreement. Democrats have condemned the move as an attempt to subvert President Barack Obama's powers on the world stage, with Vice President Joe Biden even calling the letter "beneath the dignity of an institution I revere."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/10/hillary-clinton-letter-iran_n_6841470.html
File charges against the 47 U.S. Senators in violation of The Logan Act in attempting to undermine a nuclear agreement.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/file-charges-against-47-us-senators-violation-logan-act-attempting-undermine-nuclear-agreement/NKQnpJS9
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HILLARY re : 47 Traitors: 'Either trying to be helpful to Iranians or harmful to Commander-in-Chief' (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2015
OP
They may just try to send all the information needed to produce the nuclear bomb.
Thinkingabout
Mar 2015
#2
Glad she did that
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)2. They may just try to send all the information needed to produce the nuclear bomb.
William769
(55,147 posts)3. Well done Hillary!
I'm really glad that she spoke out. Good for you, Hillary!
samsingh
(17,600 posts)5. Tehran Tom, 47 traitors - these are going to stick and everyone will know what they refer to
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)6. Good to see Hillary support SOS Kerry and Prez Obama
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)7. What kind of disappointing pro-war statement is that?
I was told here that Clinton was pro-war.
amuse bouche
(3,657 posts)8. Yet not one reporter mentioned anything about the treasonus creeps
They just asked the same inane questions about emails over and over and over
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)9. "or"?
Cha
(297,507 posts)10. How about BOTH!? thanks for keeping it in the news, Hillary.. still Trending..