Kirby: Biden Admin ‘Going to Review’ Decision Lifting Designation of Houthis as a Terrorist Organization
“I’ve already said that we are going to review that decision. We are. I’ve said it — I said it a couple of weeks ago that we were going to take a look at that decision and we still are.”
In 2021, President Joe Biden’s administration removed the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen from the terrorist organization list.
In January 2022, the administration began “mulling” the possibility of listing the Houthis as a terrorist organization again.
Now, the Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea. U.S. warships have deflected Houthi drone attacks in the Red Sea.
Does the administration regret removing the Houthis from the terrorist organization list?
[Reporter: Does the president have any regret over de-listing the Houthis as a terror organization?]
KIRBY: “I’ve already said that we are going to review that decision. We are. I’ve said it — I said it a couple of weeks ago that we were going to take a look at that decision and we still are.”
"Does the president have any regret over de-listing the Houthis as a terror organization?"
JOHN KIRBY: "We are going to review that decision" pic.twitter.com/wBa4WT3Zi2
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 7, 2023
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Biden should reconsider every decision he has made since he took office! The moron undid everything Trump accomplished that was good for our country simply because Trump did it. The lifting of sanctions from Iran was one of his worst and the border control policy that Trump had in place was even worse.
Those were plans on purpose long waiting to be implemented
Somebody other than Brandon should reconsider every decision. He’s not equipped for it.
Given the funding provided to Iran and our open borders, the Biden Administration should be designated as a terrorist organization.
They would but they don’t have any FBI agents left over from surveilling Catholics and Mega Maga Republicans
Don’t forget the parents at school board meetings
1. I don’t think giving material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations is enough to get an organization itself so designated.
2. The Biden administration is not foreign, so it can’t be designated as a foreign terrorist organization. There is no corresponding designation for domestic organizations.
3. The secretary of state is the only person with the authority to make such a designation, and he’s obviously not going to designate his own administration.
4. The president has absolute immunity for all official acts. Both letting Iran have access to its money and opening the border were official acts, and thus immune. The administration is not a separate entity from the president himself.
Other than that I can’t think of any objections. It is objective reality that this administration has not only done the things you mentioned but has also aided the Houthi, both by removing their designation as a foreign terrorist organization, and also by putting extreme pressure on Saudi Arabia to cease or moderate its war on them. Very bad idea.
“2. The Biden administration is not foreign, so it can’t be designated as a foreign terrorist organization. There is no corresponding designation for domestic organizations.”
Perhaps the NSC — Kriby’s org — has no procedure for designating domestic organizations “terrorist”, officially.
The Google Machine finds me plenty of govt actors calling organizations in the US “terrorist”, and acting against them because they are. Plus, of course, labels of “terrorist” used in prosecutions and sentencings.
These aren’t designated? What, they’re missing some paperwork?
Sheesh. Do you really not understand or are you only pretending? We are talking about the legal status of “Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization”. That is an actual legal status, with real legal consequences. It is not simply a label to be slung around indiscriminately, whether as a mere insult or as a factual description. A domestic organization may engage in terrorist activities; if it does, those who are involved in those activities can be prosecuted. But that does not give the organization any particular legal status, and anyone who was not involved in those activities, and didn’t even conspire to commit them, is free to continue as they were.
Kirby’s organization cannot designate foreign terrorist organizations; only the Secretary of State can do that.
I don’t think you can find any examples of “govt actors calling organizations in the US ‘terrorist’, and acting against them because they are .”
And no, labels of “terrorist” are not used in prosecutions and sentencings. Individual are prosecuted and sentenced for acts of terrorism, not for carrying a label.
When numbnutz? After they attack U.S. forces? Oh wait…
Maybe after you are booted out of office?
Attacking U.S. Forces only makes them an aggressor nation not terrorists. The fact they were also attacking civilian shipping makes them terrorists or perhaps pirates. I wonder if we have classified them as an aggressor nation.
The Houthis are not the government of Yemen. They are the Iranian supported rebels in a civil war which has been ongoing since 2014.
ok, good point.
That still doesn’t make them terrorists, just non-state aggressors. It’s their attacks on civilians that makes them terrorists.
Sigh.
The point is that not only did the indiscriminate firing of missiles at Israel not seem to bother the Biden administration neither did their firing on U.S. warships.
Nuance, it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
No, that is not the point. Your point was that these acts wouldn’t make them terrorists if they were a state, but since they’re not a state they do. I dispute that point. It makes no difference whether they’re a state; attacking the USA or Israel makes them aggressors, attacking civilians makes them terrorists.
Sigh now you’re just arguing about their preferred descriptors.
Hodge, no, it has nothing to do with “their preferred descriptors”. Do you not understand that Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization is a real legal status?
The claim that they are “reviewing” it is merely a delay tactic to keep people from questioning them on the subject. It’s worked for two years so far.
They will “review” it, wink at Iran, and leave the Houthis off the list.
Pigs
The thoroughly witless, stupid, gullible, incompetent and feckless foreign policy carried out by dotard crime boss, Biden, and his Dhimmi-crat chaperones, has been destructive beyond belief.
Conflagrations are spreading all over the globe; malignant and totalitarian actors such as China, Iran, Venezuela and their proxies have been emboldened and are undermining and/or attacking U.S. and allied interests; China’s dictator receives a red carpet welcome from the Dhimmi-crats in San Francisco.
Each passing day brings a new low in “dumbpolitik.”
So, they’re not going to wait until they sink one of our ships before they re-designate them a terror organization? Fascinating.