it will ALL goto fund terrorists,,, that's what untraceable cash is good for
Posted on 08/03/2016 5:59:24 PM PDT by dynachrome
Senior officials from the Department of Justice objected to sending a plane full of cash to Tehran, but were overruled by the State Department, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night.
The cash was airlifted to Iran at the same time four American prisoners were released, and also coincided with the formal implementation of the Iran nuclear deal. The payment, which the administration announced at the time, was the first part of a $1.7 billion settlement to resolve a dispute surrounding an arms deal signed just before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
But the administration did not disclose then that the first payment was $400 million in cash, the WSJ reported Tuesday.
And it said Wednesday that the timing and form of the payment raised concerns at the Justice Department.
“People knew what it was going to look like, and there was concern the Iranians probably did consider it a ransom payment,’’ one source told the paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Yeah...........riiiiight!
Trump needs to ABOLISH the State Dept. They've been going commie since the '60's and is FULL of Hillary's Saul Alinskyites. The cancer started THERE.
Dane Geld.
IMPEACH THAT BASTARD. It was illegal !! What the hell? We are just submitting to our own damned destruction!! Total RANSOM PAYMENT!! It violated the LAW. Why do we do nothing!! CASH!!! Holy crap!!
If you think it's ransom you're a racist!/sarc
Like the traitor Bergdahl deal. A convenient way to release 5 tollybon generals.
Wow.
Based on Josh Earnest’s answers today to questions regarding the secret cargo plane carrying $400 million of cash, you have to wonder about the mental health of Obama and John Kerry. They are completely disconnected with reality if they think this would float over as just partisan sniping.
Obama's federal giveaways (that we know of). Priming the Obama
foundations pumps---giveaway tax dollars now --collect donations later:
<><> $150 billion to Muslim Iran in the nuclear deal...plus the latest handout
<><> $2 billion to help half-brother Malik advance his organization---the Muslim Brotherhood,
<><> $50 million to Malik/Barack's tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Muslim Kenya.
<><> While the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama (and Hillary) showered them w/ praise.....and billions of US dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes. Payback is coming due.
<><> Obama gave $90 million US tax dollars to wealthy oil-rich Muslim African countries.
<><> the missing billions attached to Obamacare.
<><> Obama gave Michelle seventy-three million tax dollars to teach Muslim girls in Qatar
<><> Obama gave Michelle 100 million tax dollars to teach Muslim girls in Morocco.
Wealthy potential donors to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were courted with promises of access to the president, a Washington Post analysis of internal DNC emails released by WikiLeaks has found.
The party insiders' pitches appear to be in violation of White House policy, the newspaper notes. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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Obama foundation invites foundation donors to the White House
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 5/19/16 | Lynn Sweet / FR posted by Nachum
WASHINGTON — A new study details how President Barack Obama has been inviting his Obama Foundation donors to events at the White House, a venue that obviously won’t be available to him to entertain mega contributors in a few months. The Obama Foundation, created on Jan. 31, 2014, has to date only 39 contributors, with the money coming either from individuals or foundations controlled by Obama supporters.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan oversight Maplight Foundation found that 15 of the 39 have been to the White House for small meetings or events, fewer than 30 attendees, including everyone connected to a contribution of more than $100,000.
Most of the donors have been longtime political supporters and friends — or at least acquaintances of Obama — and have been in and out of the White House for years.
However, Maplight found that at an intimate White House dinner in January 2015 with actress Julia Roberts, the guests included two couples who had recently made jumbo contributions to the Chicago-based foundation.
And as 2015 progressed, one of the couples at the dinner kicked in even more, the foundation IRS report released last Friday reveals.
Among those at the January 2015 dinner were Mark Gallogly, the managing partner of Centerbridge Partners, an investment firm, and his wife, Lise Strickler. At that point, the New York couple had donated $340,000 to the foundation.
By the end of 2015, they put in an additional $330,000 for a total of $670,000. I checked to see what else was new: Gallogly and Strickler were invited to the State Dinner the Obamas hosted in March for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
In 2014, Tom Campion, owner of the Zumiez clothing chain and his wife, Sonya, gave the foundation $500,000. The Seattle couple found themselves at the Julia Roberts dinner along with folks who have also been longtime Obama backers. Another guest that evening was one of Obama’s favorite authors, Marilynne Summers Robinson.
The White House has said — and underscored this again on Wednesday at the daily briefing when asked about the Maplight report — that the Obamas are not fundraising for the foundation while in office. Well, no one is selling tickets to anything, that’s accurate. That’s not how fundraising at the mega level is done.
Obama will have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to construct and endow his Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side. Fundraising at the elite donor level is an art, a nuanced dance, especially for an institution that will exist in perpetuity.
Small dinners are not put on Obama’s daily guidance and schedule. On April 2, 2016, the White House volunteered that Obama and first lady Michelle hosted their first White House event for supporters of the Obama Foundation. That dinner was not a fundraiser, the White House said.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said: “What we have said about donors to the campaign also applies to donors at the foundation, and it’s simply this: Donating in support of the President’s foundation does not guarantee you a meeting with the President of the United States. It also doesn’t prevent you from getting a meeting with the President of the United States, and that’s the approach that we’ve taken, again, with regard to supporters of the President’s campaign, and it’s the approach that we’ve taken with regard to supporters of the President’s foundation.”
A lot of this is prospecting for the future.....M/M have Big plans to get-rich-quick ala the Clintons.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/sweet-inside-look-obama-foundation-fundraising/
Hahahahahahahahaha! Good one! This admin outlawed families paying ransom, iirc.
Dollars to donuts the language seen here is being used to cadge huge donations earmarked for M/M O's post-presidency get-rich-quick plans.
The dangers to US ntl security were apparent when the Clintons used foreign policy initiatives for foundation fund-raising.
Taxpayers demand to see donation solicitation letters sent out by the various Obama fund-raising entities....his 2 foundations and library fund.
Valerie's the one that rites this pap......taxpayers demand to see wire-transfers in and out of Valerie's office.
And if Obama receives donations from Iran, Taxpayers demand his foundations and library fund be closed down.
Nice. This tells us the Justice Department is credible now when they have no business being involved in the first place. Propaganda.
This is why Obama started the attack on Trump , distraction
once again it all depends on the meaning of “is” “ransom” “classified” etc lies apparently only matter only to conservatives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0
Nice they had the pocket change on hand. 400MM. I HOPE IT was fake.
No one in America believes this or them, anymore.
Lynch wanted more for herself, Khan, their law firm,
and of course,Comey.
Gotta keep that treason going.
Gotta keep those arms to al Qaeda flowing.
Gotta keep lying to the American public.
Of course, ordinary citizens are raked over the coals if we conduct a cash transaction approaching 10,000 dollars...
You forgot the $500 million to the IPCC. This is what you get when globalists are in control of the House of Representatives. They fund the government via continuing resolution after increasing the baseline budget 37% in Obama’s first year. They never took the increase back and it’s never accounted for. It just became a $1 trillion dollar slush fund or in other terms “Obama’s stash”. It’s criminal and Boehner, Ryan and McConnell support it.
it will ALL goto fund terrorists,,, that's what untraceable cash is good for
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