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U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed

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Posted by Steve White 2016-08-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 They went full Carter. You never go full Carter.

Posted by Thravimp Lover of the Antelope7006 2016-08-03 00:53|| 2016-08-03 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 What a weak little man.

Posted by gorb 2016-08-03 02:14|| 2016-08-03 02:14|| Front Page Top

#3 "here, take my lunch money, don't beat me up"

Posted by Bov Flimbers 2016-08-03 03:32|| 2016-08-03 03:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Poster's question in the NEWSMAX reprint - "$400 million is a pretty big expenditure. Was it Congressionally authorized and appropriated (two separate Congressional actions)? Or was this a dollar redirection within a budget line item (Presidential discretion and therefore lawful)? Or was it an unlawful expenditure?"

No, similar to events in Benghazi, this is John Brennan, ValJar and our 'unlimited budget' CIA at work.

A kinder, gentler, more conciliatory Iran needed to be imaged. The Champ had an Iranian nuclear deal that required signing.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-03 03:58|| 2016-08-03 03:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Traitors. The lot of 'em.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-08-03 08:03|| 2016-08-03 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Myself, I think the only people this was a surprise to was the nice people who wrote the article. Any random Rantburger would have seen this coming a mile off.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-08-03 09:08|| 2016-08-03 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 The US almost always pays. It just usually does not get released in the press.

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-08-03 12:17|| 2016-08-03 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 When do bad policy decisions become materiel support to terrorism? This is stunning.
- $400M ransom payment to Iran in cash...plus giving them a path to a nuke.
- Trading then entire Taliban high command for a US traitor (Bowe Bergdahl) and ensuring that Bergdahl will not go on trial for his sins until after Obama leaves office (Feb/Mar 2017 timeframe).
- Giving the Shia-led Iraqi govt. free reign in 2011 to ignite the civil war that gave us ISIS...

The beat goes on.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-08-03 12:18|| 2016-08-03 12:18|| Front Page Top

#9 When do bad policy decisions become materiel support to terrorism? This is stunning.

Stunning? You should see my collection of lock washers.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-03 12:20|| 2016-08-03 12:20|| Front Page Top

#10 $400 million in palletized, mixed currencies plus the release of billions more in accounts frozen after 1979. Heckuva payoff for a few kidnapped Americans and a signed agreement (not a treaty) not to make nuclear weapons for a few years. And that agreement might as well have been written in invisible ink, for all the compliance it will get.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-03 12:52|| 2016-08-03 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-08-03 12:56|| 2016-08-03 12:56|| Front Page Top

#12 As Designed TW...

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-08-03 13:49|| 2016-08-03 13:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't worry, the MSM won't make a fuss over this scandal.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-08-03 17:32|| 2016-08-03 17:32|| Front Page Top

#14 It will go unreported..
Lockwashers? really? I choked on my soda!! That was good.

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-08-03 17:53|| 2016-08-03 17:53|| Front Page Top

#15 "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." Attributed to FDR.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-08-03 20:31|| 2016-08-03 20:31|| Front Page Top

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