It seems like it was just yesterday that Barack Obama was posing with Pope Benedict XVI for a photo-op and lying about how he was going to reduce abortions.

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Pope Benedict XVI stand for a photo with members of the United States delegation, Friday, July 10, 2009, at the Vatican. (AP)

Today the Obama Administration put the Vatican on a money-laundering watch list.
Reuters reported:

The Vatican has for the first time appeared on the State Department’s list of money-laundering centers but the tiny city-state is not rated as a high-risk country.

The 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report was made public on Wednesday and Washington’s list of 190 countries classifies them in three categories: of primary concern, of concern and monitored.

The Vatican is in the second category, grouped with 67 other nations including Poland, Egypt, Ireland, Hungary and Chile.

It was added to the list because it was considered vulnerable to money-laundering and had recently established programs to prevent it, a State Department official said.

“To be considered a jurisdiction of concern merely indicates that there is a vulnerability to a financial system by money launderers. With the large volumes of international currency that goes through the Holy See, it is a system that makes it vulnerable as a potential money-laundering center,” Susan Pittman of the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, told Reuters.

Last year, the Vatican adapted internal laws to comply with international standards on financial crime.

Hat Tip Ed

 

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  1. #1 March 8, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    shibumi commented:

    I hope every priest in the U.S. announces this at mass on Sunday.

    Obama’s war on Catholics continues…

  2. #2 March 8, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    Matches Malone commented:

    And still the administration’s donors at JP Morgan keep the MF Global funds that were looted from MF Global’s customers.

  3. #3 March 8, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    karra commented:

    Would love to see the list(s) Bathhouse Barry Soetoro has been placed on. . . .

  4. #4 March 8, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    HarryO commented:

    And the USA is not on this list why? Are you kidding me?!?!

    Another Obama attack on the Catholic Church….Biggest POS ever to ‘OCCUPY’ the White House. What a disgrace!

  6. #7 March 8, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    Gini commented:

    Frankly, this is so bogus I would be laughing except it ain’t funny. Hope priests announce this Sunday.

  7. #8 March 8, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    squeaky commented:

    [Rush Limbaugh has rejected an advertiser’s apparent attempt to reunite with his show after the company initially dropped its ads from the program following his remarks about..]
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/limbaugh-drops-company-that-suspended-ads-from-show-over-fluke-remarks/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjD4eWEUgMM

  8. #9 March 8, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    moron commented:

    And don’t ever complain about Obamacare again! Obamacare mandates what it wants and it wants “free” birth control and the morning after pill. Even if your law school tuition is $54,000 a year plus $20,000 room/board.

  9. #10 March 8, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    donh commented:

    Matthew 16:18 ” And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.”

    The POPE has SINNED….Deutoronomy 6:16 ” Do not put the LORD your God to the test as you did at Massah. “

  10. #11 March 8, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    WillofLa commented:

    Obama is the biggest back stabber of anyone we’ve ever had in the White House. He will tell you right to your face, except if you’re Black, and lie his butt off. Unless he is a pathological liar, which would indicate he had a mental illness, or his is following his Islamic upbringing and knows that according to the Koran he must lie to all infidels. One or the other.

    Now, I want to ask you liberals, why would he do this to the Pope? Of course he’s not in charge of that department within our government, and doesn’t make up the lists of who’s who, and what’s what. BUT!, but, he should have had them removed as soon as he saw that the Vatican was put on a list of potential money-laundering subjects.

    Let me say this: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE BIGGEST MONEY-LAUNDERING SOURCE THERE EVER WAS, LET’S LOOK RIGHT AT WALL STREET, AND THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE!!!

  11. #12 March 8, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    Jobba commented:

    Obama is the anti Christ so it matters not what people think, as long as he can destroy the church and raise his army of leftist atheitst goons.

  12. #14 March 8, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Adi commented:

    How about His own campaign?

  13. #15 March 8, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Simon Said commented:

    NEVER has a group of vile trash ever hated Christians more than the ones in black, except for the ones who wear a jubba and hijab normally. Truly a group (the ones in black) of worth losers who missed their chance to live the leftist dream of being aborted or in one case, partial birth aborted. Too bad their parents didn’t do the right thing when the opportunity permitted itself.

    This picture in itself is an oxymoron. It also proves that in the presence of pure evil that the pope is just a man without the holy spirit, otherwise the fireworks would have been going off in the room with all that pond scum.

  14. #16 March 8, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Nan commented:

    The gates of hell will not prevail against the Church.

  16. #18 March 8, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    DANEgerus commented:

    Catholics are terrorists for refusing to pay for Flukes Fluking

  17. #19 March 8, 2012 at 7:26 pm

    Redwine commented:

    His Royal Holey-ness Barry Hussein, Satan’s son, is splitting Catholics from their Church, forcing Jews to choose liberalism over Israel, their Biblical homeland, and Evangelical Christians by pushing “progressive” interlopers.

    At the same time, His Royal Holey-ness Barry Hussein, Satan’s son, is actively encouraging the spread of radical, terrorist Islam, allowing Muslims to feverishly build mosques even in remote places, giving them total access to infiltrate our borders, enter our most secure places like the FBI, the DHS, the Pentagon and our armed forces, NASA, the WH.

    This SCOAMF is the money-launderer – stealing our taxpayer money to filter it through fraudulent “green” companies to award his cronies, our enemies and the UN.

    The entire regime, but mainly the the wannabe dictator, his partner in crime (his “wife”) and his unconstitutional czars, need to all be arrested for treason and thrown into the darkest, dankest dungeon for the rest of their miserable days.

  18. #20 March 8, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    Catseye commented:

    Anyone else get the impression that this is the D’s way of punishing the Catholic Church for breaking the power of the KKK back in the 20″s?



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