http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/19/senator-obama-administration-secretly-suspended-military-aid-to-egypt.html
In the latest example of its poorly understood Egypt policy, the Obama administration has decided to temporarily suspend the disbursement of most direct military aid, the delivery of weapons to the Egyptian military, and some forms of economic aid to the Egyptian government while it conducts a broad review of the relationship.
The administration won’t publicly acknowledge all aspects of the aid suspension and maintains its rhetorical line that no official coup determination has been made, but behind the scenes, extensive measures to treat the military takeover of Egypt last month as a coup are being implemented on a temporary basis.
if this was supposed to be a secret why are we reading this. do we really have to know something that we still won't know after it's explained? the right wing has been running around pointing out Pres.'s misspeak about clarity, there are things we don't need to know, we shouldn't know (Snowden),
but again right wing gets our fickled azzes up about something of no consequence for us, because we have no way to impact individually or collectively that is why there is a gov't. can any of you perform the duties of the gov't, states can't they are always crying where's the gov't, while they say they want it smaller .
Leahy’s “understanding is that aid to the Egyptian military has been halted, as required by law,” said David Carle, a spokesman for Leahy.
The administration’s public message is that $585 million of promised aid to the Egyptian military in fiscal 2013 is not officially on hold, as technically it is not due until September 30, the end of the fiscal year, and no final decisions have been made.
“After sequestration withholding, approximately $585 million remains unobligated. So, that is the amount that is unobligated,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday. “But it would be inaccurate to say that a policy decision has been made with respect to the remaining assistance funding.”
will this make right wing see this as an excuse or good thing to shut the gov't down? we don't know all that is involed with this money so sitting around taking pot shots just further emphasizes the ignorance and why we should butt out and let those who are suppose to do their jobs.
