But a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that ruling, saying the California law attempted to undercut the president's diplomatic authority and had to be preempted by the federal policy against acknowledging the genocide.

Congress has considered resolutions three times in the last decade that would have provided official recognition of the genocide. Each time, the White House has stepped in to urge that the bills be scuttled, out of fear that passage would damage relations with Turkey, whose government disputes that a genocide took place.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-armenian-suit21-2009aug21,0,2171990.story

What's Turkey got on Obama? A little something Michelle doesn't know about?

Harmon, NSA, Israel, now Turkey.

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Relevent:

http://lukery.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-did-cia-go-after-aipac-and-harman.html