I recalled reading an article in the Times of London where then PM Gordon Brown was basically letting the press know Obama was lying about his involvement in the Megrahi release. Brown stated he had several communiques from the White House that he could release if there existed any doubt. Look for some American press coverage of this now that the foreign press has begun the process of peeling back the layers of the Megrahi deception.
Here's a hypothetical on my part as to what likely transpired:
Obama was the biggest recipient of BP election donations.
BP was owed a political favor.
BP wanted a Libyan oil contract.
Libya wanted Megrahi.
BP called in their marker from Obama.
Megrahi was released on a trumped up cancer diagnosis.
Obama is a liar, plan and simple... but that's not news to us, now the world is catching him in a lie.
Steve
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7-20-10
Hold The Phone
The compulsive liar Barack Obama has reopened a can of worms. Today's joint press conference featured new British Prime Minister David Cameron and The Lying Usurper-In-Chief Barack Obama, the topic - Why an early release of Libyan terrorist Al-Megrahi, also known as the Lockerbie Pan Am Bomber, was facilitated by Scottish officials.
If you recall Al- Megrahi was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was given less than 6 months to live back around May 2009. A part of the story deals with British Petroleum receiving a Libyan oil contract at the same time Al-Megrahi was released from prison.
In today's press conference, Obama pontificated about his regime's strong disagreement PRIOR TO and AFTER the release. Here is where the stories diverge, the Scottish officials claimed they were in receipt of multiple communiques from the Obama group asking for the release of Al-Megrahi for humanitarian reasons. It also didn't hurt Megrahi is of course a Muslim. If you further recall, Obama was days away from his initial Middle East tour and the much ballyhooed Cairo speech.
As the American , British and Scottish public got wind of the release, public sentiment was strongly opposed to letting this terrorist walk from prison no matter the reason. Obama quickly spun the events, and sent communiques complaining about the release AFTER the fact, a CYA paper trail if you will. A classic Obama flip flop.
It seems in today's meetings the two leaders have agreed to use the "blame the predecessor" strategy. Gordon Brown the PM of record , is getting the official blame for this circus.
All of this has come about because some media type has noticed Al-Megrahi is still very much alive and well in Libya, when according to the calendar he should have been dead months ago.
What has happened is Obama aided in the springing from jail, a hero of the Muslim world. Now the spin cycle has re-begun. Obama is shading this as a pay for play deal between BP and Libya. BP got what they got in exchange for influencing the Scots. The black eye BP is getting from the current gulf spill couldn't have come at a better time. It all ties so nicely together for Obama.
A British reporter asked the question why Obama didn't want a further inquiry, even though Secretary of State Clinton favors it. Obama thought it was best to move forward(now read between the lines for the overt message) then stated PM Cameron had nothing to do with the Megrahi situation, but if Cameron wanted to investigate it, was up to him. Obama then went on to say, bear in mind our two countries need to focus on future threats, and the US plays a big role in intelligence gathering which would be important to the security of the UK.
Does that not sound like a threat, if Cameron doesn't let this thing go, Obama would see to it there would be a US terror intel blackout at a critical time in Britain's future.
BP,by agreement of these two leaders, has become the default political fall guy in the Lockerbie affair.
Not so fast.
Do you recall the Scots and Gordon Brown stating they had communiques from Obama requesting clemency for Al Megrahi before he was released by the Scots? They in deference to the wishes of Obama let this terrorist go free. When those comments were first made public, Obama's advisors quickly denied them,( just as they are in the Sestak case). As proof the Brits offered to publish their records.
Don't be surprised if some enterprising British journalist doesn't dig up this information. Obama has a way of lying and then getting caught in his own snare. We haven't heard the last of this is my guess.
Steve
White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be "far preferable" to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.
Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.
The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.
Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as "half-hearted" and a sign it would be accepted.
The US has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds it would prevent future "frank and open communications" with other governments.
In the letter, sent on August 12 last year to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and justice officials, Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime.
The note added: "Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose."
Mr LeBaron added that freeing the bomber and making him live in Scotland "would mitigate a number of the strong concerns we have expressed with regard to Megrahi's release".
The US administration lobbied the Scottish government more strongly against sending Megrahi home, under a prisoner transfer agreement signed by the British and Libyan governments, in a deal now known to have been linked to a pound stg. 550 million oil contract for BP.
It claimed this would flout a decade-old agreement between Britain and the US that anyone convicted of the bombing would serve their sentence in a Scottish prison. Megrahi was released by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill on the grounds that he had three months to live, making his sentence effectively spent.
The US Senate foreign relations committee launched a probe after The Sunday Times revealed this month that Megrahi's doctors thought he could live for another decade.
A source close to the Senate inquiry said: "The (LeBaron) letter is embarrassing for the US because it shows they were much less opposed to compassionate release than prisoner transfer."
Last week, a succession of British politicians - including Mr MacAskill, Mr Salmond and former justice secretary Jack Straw - delivered a diplomatic snub to the senators by refusing to fly across the Atlantic to answer questions at the Senate's hearing on Thursday (US time) about their role in Megrahi's release.
Despite the controversy over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Megrahi's release, it emerged over the weekend that BP is planning deep-water drilling off Libya.
And BP boss Tony Hayward is poised to quit this week when the company announces its half-year results, London's Sunday Telegraph reported.
The Sunday Times, AFP
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