Why am I not surprised?
From the Yid With Lid:
Do you remember how the US had a fit when Abdelbaset Al Megrahi, the terrorist responsible for the Lockerbie bomber was released? Well apparently the POTUS knew all along, and the British government is not playing along. They have told Obama to quit bitching because he knew about the negotiations for the release almost from the beginning.
With a link to UK’s Daily Mail:
Whitehall said US President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s reaction to Abdelbaset Al Megrahi’s release was ‘disingenuous’
Downing Street has hit back at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for attacking the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.
President Obama and the US Secretary of State fuelled a fierce American backlash against Britain, claiming Abdelbaset Al Megrahi should have been forced to serve out his jail sentence in Scotland – but a senior Whitehall aide said their reaction was ‘disingenuous’.
British officials claim Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return.
The officials say the Americans spoke out because they were taken aback by the row over Megrahi’s release, not because they did not know it was about to happen.
‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide.
This sucks. But really– why WOULDN’T a president eager to open the front gates of Guantanamo be OK with the release of such a killer? How do you say "Manchurian President" in Arabic?