Joe Carter, over at The Evangelical Outpost takes the ball I tossed up the other day about Kerry’s forign ‘endorsements’ and runs with it: [1]
“According to TITLE 18 , PART I , CHAPTER 45 , Sec. 953. of the U.S. Criminal Code, commonly referred to as the “Logan Act”:
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
Joe conludes what I did:
“Either he has violated the law by conducting his own private foreign policy relations or he is lying about having discussed these issues with allied leaders. Either way, Kerry owes us an explanation.”