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Obama administration blocking congressional inquiries into how $1.3 billion was sent to Iran
American Thinker ^ | August 24, 2016 | Rick Moran

Posted on 08/24/2016 7:24:14 AM PDT by detective

The Obama administration is stonewalling Congress by refusing to cooperate with congressional inquiries into how $1.3 billion was sent to Iran as part of the deal to release our hostages.

We already know that $400 million in cash was delivered as part of a $1.7-billion settlement of an outstanding debt owed to Iran. But how the rest of that money was delivered and whom it was delivered to remains a mystery.

The question is important, if only to show that the Obama administration lied about why it was necessary to make a cash payment to the Islamic Republic. They insist that the cash payment was necessary because there were no banking ties between the two countries that would facilitate a normal wire transfer of the funds.

But if the $1.3 billion was wired to Iran, it would blow up the administration's story and raise further questions about paying cash to a terrorist regime.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: iran; obama; ransome
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No one knows what the Obama administration actually did when they paid $1.3 million to Iran to ransom hostages. The Obama administration has told several different stories. Now they are blocking Congressional investigations.
1 posted on 08/24/2016 7:24:14 AM PDT by detective
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Where is Obama spending the Trillions in taxes and borrowed ?


2 posted on 08/24/2016 7:29:38 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Maybe afraid they’ll find an overseas bank account set up for receivership of the funds for Iran with the Ayatollah, ValJar and Obama listed as the signors on the account.


3 posted on 08/24/2016 7:30:21 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: detective

Billion with a B, not million.

Sorry for the error.


4 posted on 08/24/2016 7:32:09 AM PDT by detective
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"$1.7-billion settlement of an outstanding debt owed to Iran."

I'm still wondering why we needed to reach a "Settlement" with Iran when the original agreement was with the Shah of Iran and He was overthrown by radicals.
If we had an agreement with Germany and the NAZI Party rose to power again, would we still have to honor that agreement?

5 posted on 08/24/2016 7:32:56 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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IT’S OUR MONEY!!! We have a right to know how and why this president is funding Iran’s military buildup. The US House of Representatives is the branch of government in charge of spending OUR MONEY. Under our Constitution, the president does not have that right. If Republican congressmen don’t do their job, they should be fired in November.


6 posted on 08/24/2016 7:37:13 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Holy crap! Can you just imagine if a Republican Admin had tried to get away with even 1/100th of the criminality that this Admin has done??? We need a new Media that is investigative and unbiased.....I blame the Media and the Republicans in Congress with Obama, et al, being able to do anything they have wanted to do over the last 7+ years! ENOUGH!


7 posted on 08/24/2016 7:56:24 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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they don’t care about the hostages, its a coverup for buying Iran nukes with the rest


8 posted on 08/24/2016 7:57:53 AM PDT by aces ( Islam is the religion of the dead, Got Jesus?)
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To: detective

The House of Representative just cuts off the money flow to the Executive Branch


9 posted on 08/24/2016 8:05:28 AM PDT by hondact200 (Lincoln Freed the Slaves. Obama Enslaves the Free. Trump 2016 - Make America Great Again)
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By airplane, was it?

A bribe by any other name...

Generates huge incentive for the Iranians to kidnap for ransom yet more Americans.

This is NOT good leadership. Not by a mile.


10 posted on 08/24/2016 8:08:02 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Don’t assume that The Queen Of America is going to give up her life-long ambition to become president.
She is not going away any time soon.

If they have to have a midget behind her propping her up every time she appears in public, she’ll do it. She knows the media will protect her every step of the way.


11 posted on 08/24/2016 8:08:25 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic PartyÂ’s press agency now: Robert Spencer.)
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To: originalbuckeye
Holy crap! Can you just imagine if a Republican Admin had tried to get away with even 1/100th of the criminality that this Admin has done?

Maybe we can get Ollie North to give a talk about what he and President Reagan were put through during the Iran-Contra hearings.

12 posted on 08/24/2016 8:14:03 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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Obama will be the first billionaire ex president. Soros will seem like some chump compared to Obama’s meddling once he’s out of office. 1.7 billion to Iran. HA. By the time he and Vajayjay are done they will have hundreds of billions.


13 posted on 08/24/2016 8:18:29 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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Obama administration blocking congressional inquiries into how $1.3 billion was sent to Iran

Pardon me if I sound cynical, but I just don't believe the so-called GOP "Leadership" of Paul Ryno and Mitchie "0bama's Bitch" McConnell are trying very hard.

14 posted on 08/24/2016 8:28:46 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (KAINE-Voting For Hillary Will Put American Women On Par With Women In Iraq, Afghanistan = Sharia Law)
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“The Obama administration is stonewalling Congress by refusing to cooperate with congressional inquiries....”

NO, I just can’t believe it! /s


15 posted on 08/24/2016 8:29:03 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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Congress should refuse to fund anything else until he answers the questions. They control the funds, not Obama.

Too bad we don’t have Congressmen with cojones.


16 posted on 08/24/2016 8:29:52 AM PDT by Boogieman
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...or backbones...or a sense of duty to their oath of office...or a concern for the rule of law...or... What a passle of degenerate, compromised losers. Our "leaders" are LOSERS
17 posted on 08/24/2016 8:34:02 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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Thank you for referencing that article detective. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Patriots, do not be deceived by Congress making last-term, “useful idiot” Obama out to be THE bad guy in this issue.

More specifically, noting that the Founding States gave the “power of the purse” uniquely to the House of Representatives as evidenced by the Constitution’s Clause 1 of Section 7 of Article I, corrupt Congress is constitutionally responsible for the $1.3 billion, imo, that lawless Obama sent to Iran.

Patriots also need to wise up to the problem that corrupt Congress is exploiting the 22nd Amendment by letting 2nd-term, lawless presidents get away with doing all kind of unconstitutional things.

Remember in November !

Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will put a stop to Congress blaming everybody but itself for its unconstitutional mischief.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

18 posted on 08/24/2016 9:05:18 AM PDT by Amendment10
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I don’t even have to look to know where the money went. It went to Muslim Brotherhood/ Clinton Foundation point man who split the money between Iran and the Clintons. For the 50% handed to the Clintons, Iran got details on nuke operations and missile technology.


19 posted on 08/24/2016 9:35:57 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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Lets fill'er up folks...

20 posted on 08/24/2016 10:15:26 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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