Tough on Citizens

But not on terrorists.

It seems that government officials threatened prosecution of the parent of James Foley if that made any attempt to pay the $132,000,000 ransom demand. 

The grief stricken mother, Diane Foley, was interviewed by CNN's Anderson Cooper.

"Three times he intimidated us with that message. We were horrified he would say that. He just told us we would be prosecuted. We knew we had to save our son, we had to try".
"We were asked to just trust that it would be taken care of,  we were just told to trust that he would be freed somehow miraculously, and he wasn't was he?"

ABC News questioned an NSC representative who confirmed the reporter's family was made aware of U.S. law that prohibits financing terrorism. The same denied the family was threatened with criminal charges if they paid the ransom.

"Without getting into the details of our private discussions with families, the law is clear that ransom payments to designated individuals or entities, such as ISIL, are prohibited. It is also a matter of longstanding policy that the U.S. does not grant concessions to hostage takers. Doing so would only put more Americans at risk of being taken captive. That is what we convey publicly and what we convey privately," 

Yes, government always does privately what they promise publicly. Not.

In the end some tactless government thug threatened the parents of the victim. As always, threatened with the implied point of a gun that their freedom was going to be taken away. At what point will this chicken shit administration start taking the fight to the enemy?