Posted on 08/23/2016 4:34:54 PM PDT by BAW
The Obama administration is withholding from Congress details about how $1.3 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds was delivered to Iran, according to conversations with lawmakers, who told the Washington Free Beacon that the administration is now stonewalling an official inquiry into the matter.
The Departments of State, Treasury, and Justice have all rebuffed a congressional probe into the circumstances surrounding the $1.3 billion payment to Iran, which is part of an additional $400 million cash payout that occurred just prior to the release of several U.S. hostages and led to accusations that the administration had paid Iran a ransom.
The Obama administration has admitted in recent days that the $400 million cash delivery to Iran was part of an effort to secure the release of these American hostages, raising further questions on Capitol Hill about White House efforts to suppress these details from the public.
The State and Treasury Departments declined on Tuesday to answer a series of questions from the Free Beacon about the method in which U.S. taxpayer funds were paid to Iran.
The administration is also withholding key details about the payment from leading members of Congress, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Mike Lee (R., Utah), who launched an inquiry into the matter earlier this month.
The Departments of State, Treasury, and Justice all failed to respond to the inquiry by Monday’s deadline, according to congressional sources tracking the matter.
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I sincerely hope this ends in a prison sentence for that stupid Affirmative Action Bastard.
Maybe Holder had a few leftover Fast & Furious guns?
This is how ANGOLA is ruled.
Or maybe Venezuela.
Bkmrk
Obama, Killary, Kerry, Comey and seemingly the majority of those in the upper echelon of our government belong behind prison bars!!!
No accountability whatsoever!!!
What’s even worse is that not enough citizens give a damn!!!
(They are the REAL problem, I think.)
ML/NJ
In related news, Adolf Hitler won’t tell the Bundt what his plans for Germany are.
Not just impeachable, indictable.
I'll bet he paid Iran in GOLD. Check the vaults!
The media would be running with this story 24/7 if it was a Republican in the WH.
And as far as I can tell this hasn’t been (and most probably never will be) reported in the major media like the NY Times, Wash Post, CBSNBCABCPBS, etc. So there’s no large media watchdog or opposition political party to raise hell about this kind of outrage. Hillary can’t wait to get her hands on the unchecked levers of power.
If anyone up there had any balls and if the Military would back them up.
Obama belongs in prison. His entire government belongs in prison. His donors and contributors belong in prison.
Sounds like a business opportunity for the conservative wing, huh?
Conservative News Media...CNM
If a Republican had pulled a stunt like this, he would be on the evening news being marched out of the White House in handcuffs.
I predict that if Hillary doesn't win, Obama is going to prison. Therefore I predict that Obama is going to rig the election so that she will win.
The damned money COMES FROM Congress .. Paul Ryan in particular ... they don’t know how Obama got the money? Phooey!
DL, we’re likely to be locked up if Illary wins..
The Founders would be shooting by now.
Which is why our number one duty to God and the Nation ought to be burning down the existing Democrat enabling media propaganda monopoly.
The nation cannot survive with one party control of the media. It needs to be forcefully divided into something that will protect the public regardless of who is in power.
We need to smash it, burn it, and rebuild it into something FORCED BY LAW to be objective.
might come to pass yet
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