It appears as if President Obama will take Cuba off the State Department’s list of terrorist states without opposition from House Republicans.
The effort to prevent Obama from lifting the terrorist designation off of Cuba was in full swing last week, but ranking House Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said that the move to keep Cuba on the terrorists list “would not have the far-ranging implications that many had assumed it would.”Legally, Ros-Lehtinen said, Congress can’t prevent the White House from taking Cuba off the list because not all the statutes that govern designation of a country as a state sponsor of terrorism provide a way for Congress to block a de-listing.
“Of the three statutes that authorize the designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, the Arms Control Export Act contains the legislative mechanism for Congress to block a delisting,” Ros-Lehtinen said, but neither the Export Administration Act nor the Foreign Assistance Act have such mechanisms.
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“Instead, we are working to ensure that any legislation passed through Congress that relates to Cuba is substantive and will have significant legal effect,” she said.
The congresswoman said that she and her colleagues plan to file “broader legislation regarding Cuba that will help ensure that U.S. national security is protected and that our nation continues to advocate for human rights on the island.”Obama sent a report to Congress on April 14 saying he planned to take Cuba off the list because it had provided no support for international terrorism during the past six months and that the Cuban government had given assurances that it wouldn’t support acts of international terrorism in the future.-Miami Herald
This is all part of Obama’s “normalizing” of relations between the communist country of Cuba and the U.S.
What Obama has done very simple. The President has given the murderous and repressive actions of the Castros his seal of approval. Now the U.S. appears to condone acts of terror, torture and murder.
Way to go Barry.
