{"id":1046,"date":"2008-09-16T12:02:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2008-09-16T12:02:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:02:41","slug":"did-obama-violate-the-logan-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Did Obama violate the Logan Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister just texted me to ask if Obama had violated <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logan_Act\">the Logan Act<\/a> &#8211; a law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. This apparently is the I&#8217;m sure this question is a result of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/php\/pfriendly\/print.php?url=http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/09152008\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/obama_tried_to_stall_gis_iraq_withdrawal_129150.htm\">this story<\/a> by the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amir_Taheri#Controversies\">Amir Taheri<\/a>. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NWIxNzA2ZmMwZTFkOWNjOWJhMmQyYWUzNTVjOGEyY2Q=\">Jonah Goldberg of the National Review<\/a> in his post on the matter concedes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If memory serves, Taheri hasn&#8217;t always panned out&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This I suppose is Goldberg&#8217;s way of saying that he will fan the flames if it hurts Obama whether Taheri&#8217;s &#8220;reporting&#8221; is true or not. Most famously, Taheri recently claimed that the government of Iran was forcing Jews to wear yellow stars a la Nazi Germany. He refused to retract the story although the publisher of the story later <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2006_Iranian_sumptuary_law_controversy\">issued an apology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see an official response from the campaign yet on this issue, but I will post it as soon as I get it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s forthcoming as the McCain camp has issued an official response <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YmRmMDAwNDc1ZTMxMDAzNGJlYjA5NWY1MzRlMGJmM2M=\">fanning these flames<\/a> &#8211; saying that even the possibility that Obama may have violated the Logan act was &#8220;unprecedented.&#8221; Of course, McCain has been accused in the past of violating the Logan Act on a number of occasions &#8211; with regards to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=132x6630726\">Georgia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyarsenal.org\/2008\/07\/mccains-undiplo.html\">Columbia<\/a>; and the right has accused <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/extra\/?id=110009908\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> of violating the Logan Act as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister just texted me to ask if Obama had violated the Logan Act &#8211; a law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. This apparently is the I&#8217;m sure this question is a result of this story by the infamous Amir Taheri. Even Jonah Goldberg of the National Review in his post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,3,28,6,4,458],"tags":[759,116,760,117],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-foreign-policy","category-iraq","category-obama","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-amir-taheri","tag-jonah-goldberg","tag-logan-act","tag-national-review"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-gS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}