James Foley’s Mother: ‘Our Efforts To Get Jim Freed Were an Annoyance’ to the Government

James Foley's Mother: "Our Efforts To Get Jim Freed Were An Annoyance" To The Government (RealClearPolitics)

COOPER: You didn't feel like they were there for you, that they were really not? The U.S. government really was not? 

FOLEY: Not at all. And yet, we don't blame, I don't want to blame people because that is going to help. 

COOPER: So did you feel that your family, that Jim was a priority for the government?

FOLEY: No. We really didn't. You know? 

COOPER: And you saw that in what, in the resources that they had you interact with, the people they had you interact with? How did you get that sense? 

FOLEY: As an American I was embarrassed and appalled. I think our efforts to get Jim freed were an annoyance, you know.

COOPER: An annoyance to the government?

FOLEY: Yes, Jim would've been saddened. Jim believed til the end that his country would come to their aid. We were -- you know, asked to not go to the media. To just trust that it would be taken care of. We were told we could not raise ransom, that it was illegal. We might be prosecuted.