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Obama’s Ransom Payment to an Outlaw Regime - Under-the-table bribes (TR)
FrontPage Mag ^ | August 4, 2016 | Joseph Klein

Posted on 08/04/2016 9:58:56 AM PDT by Perseverando

Under the headline “U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed,” the Wall Street Journal reported on August 3rd the secret transport to Iran of $400 million in Euros and other non-U.S. dollar currencies at around the same time that five American hostages held captive were released by the Iranian regime. The hostages included Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati and Pastor Saeed Abedini. The Obama administration insists that it was all just a coincidence. It was only paying off the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement of Iranian claims before the Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague, arising from a failed arms deal that had preceded the overthrow of the Shah. There was no quid pro quo or ransom paid to get our hostages back, claims the administration. Everyone else with an ounce of common sense knows the truth – the Obama administration violated the long-held policy of the United States not to pay ransom or make other concessions to hostage takers in order to procure the release of the prisoners detained unlawfully by Iran.

The Obama administration is insulting our intelligence in claiming, as State Department spokesman John Kirby has done, that “the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim…were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home.” Even Obama himself had linked the settlement to both the completion of the nuclear deal with Iran and the release of the American captives. “With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” Obama said in his victory lap statement at the White House on January 17th. He also announced that, as “a reciprocal humanitarian gesture,”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; iranrico; kerryrico; obamarico; obvioustreason; statedeptrico; terrorism; treason; treasonrico; typicaltreason
Democrats - The party of waste, fraud, corruption and treason. And Obama is their leader.
1 posted on 08/04/2016 9:58:56 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

The bastard should be tried for treason.


2 posted on 08/04/2016 9:59:55 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: Perseverando

Indeed. And this is why the non-story involving Khan was played up the way it was, so that the sheeple would hopefully look away from something like this since Donald is such a wacist.


3 posted on 08/04/2016 10:01:25 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Perseverando; All

Jizya.

And our uniparty rinos think Trump is worse. They dont sit around and say how can we get rid of Barack?

Imagine if they spent the same effort at trying to stop and get rid of Barack that they have Trump.

Makes me sick the g-d republican rino vichy uniparty asses we are saddled with, thanks to decades of people saying we have to support them and vote for them.


4 posted on 08/04/2016 10:02:49 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Perseverando

Some went to Val’s family and to Kerry’s family.
So isn’t that ok?

Kerry might even may his boat taxes.


5 posted on 08/04/2016 10:03:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Perseverando

But you’re supposed to pay attention to the REAL story!

Trump saying something MEAN about the Khans!


6 posted on 08/04/2016 10:04:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Perseverando

I think the entire thing is a set up - that he told them to kidnap some Americans so he could funnel them money and then if he got caught claim higher ground saying American lives are that important.


7 posted on 08/04/2016 10:05:06 AM PDT by reaganaut (I'm looking forward to Trump as President. I'm an Evangelical and I vote.)
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To: bigbob

As I recall they wanted to impeach Reagan for having an autographed Bible smuggled to them.


8 posted on 08/04/2016 10:05:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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FROM THE ARTICLE: This represented (1) the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The settlement, which resolved claims before an international tribunal in The Hague, (2) also coincided with the formal implementation that same weekend of the landmark nuclear agreement reached between Tehran, the U.S. and other global powers the summer before. “With the Iran nuclear deal done, and, (3) US prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” Obama said on Jan. 17—without disclosing the $400 million cash payment.

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.

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GOVERTNMENT FRAUD AT ITS FINEST---a get-rich-quick plan.

Obama's federal giveaways (that we know of). Priming the Obama
foundations pumps---giveaway tax dollars now --collect donations later
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<><> $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.

9 posted on 08/04/2016 10:05:15 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's m ind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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Infamous DNC Leak Reveals Dem Party Insiders Promised Access to Obama in Exchange for Cash
WashingtonPost / FR Posted on ‎7‎/‎26‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎38‎:‎14‎ ‎AM by Admiral_Zeon

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.”

(NOTE: A lot of this is prospecting for the future.....M/M O have Big plans to get-rich-quick ala the Clintons.)

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/sweet-inside-look-obama-foundation-fundraising/

10 posted on 08/04/2016 10:05:48 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's m ind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: Perseverando

Dane Geld..................


11 posted on 08/04/2016 10:23:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Perseverando

TRUMP needs to make sure the public is educated about this!
Make it part of every quote

In a kind gentle respectful way, of course (sarc)


12 posted on 08/04/2016 10:37:34 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Perseverando

This was payment of jizya or ransom. Either way it’s the same situation that lead us into the Barbary Wars.


13 posted on 08/04/2016 10:53:16 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Perseverando
Was this missing person on the plane taking the money to Iran?


14 posted on 08/04/2016 10:55:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Like NSA. It is the only part of the federal government that listens to the American people!!!)
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