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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Paging John Cornyn.
Paging John Carter.
Please take the K street fork from your mouths and do something.
Apparently the money was stolen from we the people, and the perpetrator has coerced the witnesses, tampered the evidence, and compromised the system to cover his tracks.
A crime has been committed.......again.
Again.
Hussein Obama, America's FIRST Muslim President knows Congress will do nothing, he owns them.
Hussein owns the media, they hide his dirt just like the US government hides Obama's dirt.
When Hillary and Bill were caught with their pants down on the email PAY for PLAY scam, Hussein Obama made phone calls to the Attorney General and FBI Director. They were told Hillary would NOT be indicted, no matter what the evidence shows.
Hussein and his terrorists are close to collapsing the rule of law in the US. To be replaced by Sharia Law as soon as Hussein can arrange it.
Let us encourage ourselves by contemplating the possibility that some people may have bitten off more than they can chew.
It should be law that every reporter on any news program or article online or in the paper must have a party registration indicated so we know who is reporting your news.
It’s called a “subpoena”. Issue some. Put the respondents under oath.
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Good follow-up
“Let us encourage ourselves by contemplating the possibility that some people may have bitten off more than they can chew”.
Yes Indeed.
“Let us encourage ourselves by contemplating the possibility that some people may have bitten off more than they can chew”.
Yes Indeed.
I can only hope that we start prosecuting and jailing these criminals
I have said for the last two decades that every reporter on the television should have a little "(D) from New York" under them when they are speaking.
It would make it much clearer what is going on with our news.
I'm halfway of the opinion that now that it has gotten so bad, it's nearly impossible to fix it.
I personally blame George HW Bush for this mess. He's the one that tossed away all our political clout and Reagan's legacy because the naive fool wanted to try to make deals with Democrats.
Making that Deal with the Democrats is what lost him the 1992 election, and Clinton and Obama were just the predictable consequences of George HW Bush's blunder.
BTTT
imagine if any republican admin did this to a democrat congress.
imagine the difference in reporting.
The money was held in escrow by the Carter Administration. It was payment from the Shah’s government for weapons that were never delivered because the Shah was overthrown.
It never left control of the Executive Branch and Congress never sought to control it.
So the problem does indeed stem from Congress, just not in the misleading way the Free Beacon (headed by NeverTrump-er William Kristol’s son-in-law) misleadingly indicates.
We should be asking how he got the money. Congress gave it to him. There’s the problem.
This is cut’ n ‘clear misappropriation from funds within the executive branch shuffled “WITHOUT AUTHORITY” to pay what sotoreo/bama/bambino/bababooiie wanted to donate to the MB...sand neeeegeeers.
Yes, but it is ignored.
Giving an enemy the means to get weapons of mass destruction is treason. Leaving weapons out for your enemies to seize to use against your nation is also treason. Why isn’t this guy being tried for treason?
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