Obama administration engaged in secret talks to pay Iran nearly $2 billion

Foxnews ^ | 3/23/16 | Adam Kredo

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

The Obama administration has spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Islamic Republic, with more payouts likely to come in the future, according to a recent letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

The administration’s disclosure came in response to an inquiry launched in January by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), who was seeking further information about the Obama administration’s payment of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran, which many viewed as a “ransom payment” for Iran’s release that month of several U.S. hostages.

The administration’s official response to Pompeo was sent earlier this week, just days after a Free Beacon report detailing a months-long State Department effort to stall the lawmaker’s inquiry.

“We apologize for the delay in responding,” Julia Frifield, an assistant secretary for legislative affairs, states in the letter’s opening.

Obama administration officials first began talks to settle a number of outstanding legal claims leveled against the United States by Iran in 2014. The administration predicts that more taxpayer-funded payments are likely to be granted to the Islamic Republic in the future, according to the letter.

Frifield in her letter goes on to defend the $1.7 billion payment to Iran and discloses that the administration is open to providing Tehran with more money if it is willing to settle these decades-old legal disputes with the United States

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

STOPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!

[EagleUSA]

Hurting America and its people...as fast as possible. Doing as much damage as possible before being thrown out of the WH.

[blackdog]

Uhm............Congress controls spending. How exactly is the Obama Administration making payments to other parties not as part of appropriations bills from our treasury?

Oh, that's right! Omnibus budget deals passed by congress to avoid government shutdowns! Nobody gets to know what's in them.

[ZULU]

WOW! Valerie Jarett must be really good in bed. But considering the alternative, I guess this explains a lot of things.

[Pearls Before Swine]

... and yet, the Mullahs spurn him at every opportunity.

He’s such a prick at home, and such a masochist abroad.

Doesn’t compute.

[tgusa]

Yabbut she’s a two-bagger...

[CivilWarBrewing]

Time to draw up an arrest warrant for Valerie Jarrett. If aiding and abetting a terrorist sponsor nation isn’t TREASON, WHAT IS?

[ZULU]

That’s o.k. The alternative is a four bagger.

[Steely Tom]

And the GOP - which controls both houses of congress - doesn't say boo.

[Jack Hammer]

In case you were wondering what obama did with all that cash you had earmarked for junior’s dental work, that new car, or the retirement account you were setting aside - he’s shoveling it to his moslem pals.

[SIRTRIS]

>>>BUENOS AIRES — President Obama declared Wednesday that defeating the terrorism threat posed by the Islamic State remains his top priority, but he forcefully dismissed calls for his administration to alter its strategy and vowed not to change course “simply because it’s political season.”

How may seasons have gone by? He's truly clueless

[Lera]

Is it going to take a nuke from these savages hitting New York City to wake these stupid people we elected up ?

[golux]

Bump.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

I thought he was a Sunni...

[Waryone]

JIZYA!

[Pilated]

How about using that money for military veterans instead! Why is our hard earned and taxed money leaving our borders? We have plenty of money to help our selves FIRST! then the world.