Representing North Carolina’s Ninth District
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 16, 2008
Contact: Andy Polk
(202) 225-1976
Rep. Myrick Calls for Former President Jimmy Carter’s Passport to be Revoked
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-9) called on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to revoke former President Jimmy Carter’s passport. This is in response to the former President traveling to Syria to meet with Hamas, an organization officially designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
“Former President Carter has acted in contradiction of international agreements to isolate Hamas. He has acted in defiance of both United States policy and international policy. His actions reward terrorists, lend support, and provide legitimacy to their belief that violence will eventually get them what they want,” said Rep. Myrick.
After Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections the Quartet (US, UN, EU and Russia) called on Hamas to renounce terror, recognize Israel and recognize the previous agreements between the Palestinian Authority and Israel as they seek an agreement to make peace. Hamas has categorically rejected these three conditions for more than two years.
Congress granted the Secretary of State the power to grant and verify passports. In 1981, the United States Supreme Court held in the case of Haig v. Agee that the Secretary of State has the implied power to revoke passports as well (453 U.S. 280).
Background
Carter embraces Hamas official at West Bank meeting:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080415/D902HRSO0.html
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http://www.house.gov/list/press/nc09_myrick/041608carterpassport.html
Memo to Myrick: Carter is no longer President and is a private citizen. Did you ask to revoke Carter's passport when he visited Cuba and Castro a few years back? Please do your job for your constituents in North Carolina.
1 comment:
Things much be great in North Carolina and their Economy is great. All these States with lost jobs and home foreclosures but not North Carolina. They have nothing better to do then to ask for President Carter's passport be revoked. Now Hamas won a Democratic election but the US got made and wanted the other side to win. Isreal wasn't happy either as they want that land. It's so strange to read about how Jewish people left Germany and just walked in to Palestine and said they wanted the land because the bible had them there before Jesus was born. God gave up on Isreal along time ago as it says in the bible. I hope President Carter has a successful visit with the Palestine President.
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