Acting US ambassador to Pakistan met with Code Pink

[txradioguy]

Richard Hoagland, the acting U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, discussed with Code Pink and anti-Israel activists what he said was classified information, during an October 3 meeting with the groups in Islamabad.

Code Pink, a liberal anti-war organization known for disrupting Republican and conservative public events, uploaded a video of the meeting to an Internet video sharing website on Oct. 5.

“I looked at the numbers today before I came here, and I saw a number of civilian casualties — officially U.S. government classified information,” Hoagland said at the meeting. “Since July 2008 it is in the two-figures. I can’t vouch for you that that’s accurate, in any way, so I can’t talk about the numbers. Alright. I wanted to see what we have on the internal record. [It's] quite low.”

Realizing what he had said, Hoagland told the activist gathering: “I probably just, you know, got into big trouble with what I just said.”

The left-wing delegation to Pakistan included Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of Code Pink, and Robert Naiman, the policy director of a left-wing group called Just Foreign Policy, whose board members include Julian Bond, the former NAACP chairman, and Tom Hayden, the 1960s radical and former California politician.

During the five-minute video, Naiman hands the ambassador a petition, which he claims was signed by more than three thousand people, calling for an end to U.S. military drone strikes in Pakistan.

Naiman also is seen giving Hoagland an anti-drone letter from left-wing American activists, including Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole and Oliver Stone.

“We demand an immediate moratorium on the drone strikes,” the letter reads, in part. “We demand that U.S. policy in Pakistan be brought into compliance with U.S. and international law, that the U.S. government come clean about civilian casualties, that civilian victims and their families be compensated, and that ‘signature’ drone strikes and attacks on civilian rescuers be permanently abandoned, in Pakistan and everywhere else.”

http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/05/acting-us-ambassador-to-pakistan-met-with-code-pink-discussed-classified-drone-casualty-counts/

[Chris_]

Good lord, look at that ugly mug.

[txradioguy]

Good lord, look at that ugly mug.

Trust me...it looks even worse in person.

[whiffleball]

Trust me...it looks even worse in person.

Isn't that LTC Ann Wright?

[CG6468]

The pinkos are all disgusting and violate our Constitution with their activities.

[Wineslob]

Tell me again, how these P.O.S.'s speak for my country in any official way?

[docstew]

Not surprised that he met with Code Pink, but if he was discussing classified information, he needs to be removed from office and imprisoned.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The State Department seems to have concentrated on posting total Left-PC faggots to ambassadorial posts in Islamist countries for some reason, which seems about as likely to produce good results as mixing up homemade black powder in a kitchen blender.  I would also note that the US ambassador to Pakistan is probably isn't the guy who can stop any drone strikes there, since they aren't run out of his embassy, which is all he directly controls - indirectly, he could threaten to resign over them, but it would likely be accepted and the strikes continued, since that's the only arrow the Administration has in its quiver that looks like it's actually be working at all, lately.

[98ZJUSMC]

Good lord, look at that ugly mug.

I tried to avoid it.

I failed.