REMEMBER WHEN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ENABLED HEZBOLLAH?: Politico flashback: The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook.

The story is so bad, it’s almost unbelievable. A few choice excerpts: “In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.”

“One Obama-era Treasury official, Katherine Bauer, in little-noticed written testimony presented last February to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, acknowledged that ‘under the Obama administration … these [Hezbollah-related] investigations were tamped down for fear of rocking the boat with Iran and jeopardizing the nuclear deal.'”

“As a result, the U.S. government lost insight into not only drug trafficking and other criminal activity worldwide, but also into Hezbollah’s illicit conspiracies with top officials in the Iranian, Syrian, Venezuelan and Russian governments — all the way up to presidents Nicolas Maduro, Assad and Putin, according to former task force members and other current and former U.S. officials.”

“By May 2010, Brennan, then assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, confirmed in a speech that the administration was looking for ways to build up ‘moderate elements’ within Hezbollah…. ‘There is certainly the elements of Hezbollah that are truly a concern to us what they’re doing,’ Brennan said. ‘And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements.'” (And I still don’t understand how Brennan got his security clearances despite supporting the Soviet-puppet Communist Party USA candidate in 1980, much less how you can give someone like that top national security positions.)