Posted on 08/02/2016 11:59:22 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy
What Donald Trump has proclaimed the worst deal ever made, may just have become worst-er. The shocking truth behind the US-Iran nuclear deal, as WSJ reports, is that John Kerry and the Obama Administration airlifted $1.7bn of cash in 'compromise' payments (read - bribe) to Tehran to ensure the release of 4 captured sailors coincidentally the same weekend as the signing of the nuclear deal.
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Of course, senior U.S. officials denied any link between the payment and the prisoner exchange. They say the way the various strands came together simultaneously was coincidental, not the result of any quid pro quo.
But U.S. officials also acknowledge that Iranian negotiators on the prisoner exchange said they wanted the cash to show they had gained something tangible.
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And now comes the big test of the mainstream media in America - can they stop discussing Trump and Khizr Kahn for long enough to question the deliberate obfuscation of facts in yet another foreign policy snafu by the administration?
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed [$400 million]
Drudge headline $400M, ‘in euros, Swiss francs, and other vurrencies’
Nothing to see, ad it’s just normal Democrat Party operation.
$1.7 Billion is a lot of physical cash. I saw the same number you did of $400 million.
The height of a stack of 1,000,000 one dollar bills measures 4,300 inches or 358 feet – about the height of a 30 to 35 story building. The height of a stack of 100,000,000 (one hundred million) one dollar bills measures 35,851 feet or 6.79 miles.
The money represented 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, 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 nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” President Barack Obama said at the White House on Jan. 17—without disclosing the $400 million cash payment. “With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” President Barack Obama said at the White House on Jan. 17—without disclosing the $400 million cash payment.
Lets give a shout out to DRUDGE for really blasting this.
Drudge Headline: OBAMA SENT $400 MILLION CASH TO IRAN AS AMERICAN PRISONERS FREED
Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown on unmarked cargo plane...
Trump is gonna have fun with this.
And now comes the big test of the mainstream media in America - can they stop discussing Trump and Khizr Kahn for long enough to question the deliberate obfuscation of facts in yet another foreign policy snafu by the administration?...
No.
That’s why FR is so important, as is a YUGE conservative presence on Social Media.
I’ve been tweetnig a lot more than I’ve ever done before and exchanged some with a few people from Breitbert and other conservative news outlets and they reach a lot of people on FB and Twitter.
People who otherwise wouldn’t know what was going on.
A tweet doesn’t go away so when I (or anyone) tweets that more American soldiers were killed by american muslim soldiers than american muslim soldiers were killd in the war, it’s there forever, for anyone to see.
And you’d be surprised at how much the average person doesn’t know.
Let’s teach them.
3 of 4 NYT bestsellers are anti-Clinton books
:-)
Of course, it’s Trump that is unfit to lead, not the worst President since Jimmy Carter that blasted him today.
Sounds like Barack Hussein Obama and his buddy John Kerry bent over and gave into a third-world craphole that sponsors Radical Islamic Terrorism.
Note how the Iranians were paid off using foreign currency so as not to violate US law.
This is after the Iranian jackholes humiliated those soldiers, IIRC.
Yes, the sailors were held for 15 hours starting 12 January, and the prisoners released 16 January.
The pros use Franklins, not Washingtons.
Actually, the pros reckon bank bundles: 100 Franklins plus a wrapper. E.g., Congressman William Jefferson, D-LA, who was found with nine bank bundles, additionally wrapped in aluminum foil, in his freezer, during an FBI raid.
Back in 2009, I posted a calculation:
It was disclosed last year that the Clintons had made $109m since leaving office (mostly speaking fees, consutlting fees, and book royalties). How much would that weigh?Well, $109m is 10,900 standard bank bundles (100 $100 bills). A $100 bill weighs slightly less than a gram. So, throw in the bundle wrapper and say each bundle is 100 grams (paper wrapper, not the foil Congressman Jefferson used). That means the Clintons' fortune weighs 1,090,000 grams, or about 2403 pounds. A long ton of money!
Now we only have to figure out WHO or WHAT was delivered to Iran on those boats.
...the media won’t let the muzzie story go. CBSN (Clinton bullsh*t network) keeps rerunning stories over 5 days....just to fill time.
I suspect to see reruns of Howdy Dowdy when the next wikileaks batch
comes out
Tommy Two-times ... gotta go get the papers, get the papers
Jimmy!
:-)
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