It wasn’t just James Foley’s family who was threatened with jail if they tried to help rescue their son by raising money to pay a ransom. Turns out Steven Sotloff’s family was threatened with jail time by the Obama regime too. Yahoo News reported on the Sotloffs being threatened by the Obama regime with jail. Don’t expect to hear about any of this on the Sunday news shows though.
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I think I’ve figured it out. The fathers of James Foley and Steven Sotloff should have grown Muslim beards and learned Arabic. That way, maybe Obama could have traded five dangeous terrorists to get their son freed. Maybe they would have even gotten a Rose Garden photo op with Obama like the Bergdahl family.
The parents of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff were told by a White House counterterrorism official at a meeting last May that they could face criminal prosecution if they paid ransom to try to free their son, a spokesman for the family told Yahoo News Friday night.
Related StoriesThe journalist’s father, Art, was “shaking” after the meeting with the official, who works for the National Security Council, Barfi said. The families of three other hostages being held by the militant group Islamic State were also at the White House meeting, sources told Yahoo News.
The Sotloff family issued their statement after Diane Foley, the mother of murdered journalist James Foley, told ABC News that her family took statements by the White House counterterrorism official about legal bars to paying ransom as a “threat, and it was appalling. … We were horrified he would say that. He just told us we would be prosecuted.”