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The original WSJ article can be found on this thread:

U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed [$400 million]

1 posted on 08/02/2016 11:59:23 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy
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To: ScaniaBoy

Drudge headline $400M, ‘in euros, Swiss francs, and other vurrencies’


2 posted on 08/03/2016 12:00:59 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Nothing to see, ad it’s just normal Democrat Party operation.


3 posted on 08/03/2016 12:02:36 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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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.


5 posted on 08/03/2016 12:04:53 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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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?...

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.


10 posted on 08/03/2016 12:08:12 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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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.


13 posted on 08/03/2016 12:27:52 AM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Radical Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen is "Ready for Hillary!" Are you too?)
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...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


18 posted on 08/03/2016 1:12:02 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: ScaniaBoy; Old Sarge; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Art in Idaho; Candor7; easternsky; EnigmaticAnomaly; ...

PING!!!

Article and comments, esp, #4, #15 and others

Thanks, ScaniaBoy


21 posted on 08/03/2016 2:03:12 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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Pretty hard to use a secret payoff to show something tangible...


22 posted on 08/03/2016 3:41:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ScaniaBoy

I was gonna say it was $400 Million yesterday.


25 posted on 08/03/2016 4:09:03 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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So where does this money come from? Seriously. Somebody has to have this “in a bank”, somebody had to put it there, and somebody has to release it. Doesn’t transferring money like this take House approval? I do not think the President has this unilateral power.


30 posted on 08/03/2016 5:09:05 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: GOPJ; Jane Long; ExTexasRedhead; RitaOK; ColdOne; Black Agnes; Tennessee Nana; sickoflibs; ...

PING


36 posted on 08/03/2016 5:47:23 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? A liberal's m ind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: ScaniaBoy
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.

They want Hillary in office.

37 posted on 08/03/2016 6:04:39 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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Let’s see here.....

1.7 billion dollars.

There are approximately a quarter of million adults in the US, those over the age of 18.

Now, if you took that money and divided it equally, each adult in the US would get about $6800, if I did my math right.

And they are handing it over to IRAN?!?!?!?!

And if a Republican president did that, he’d be charged, tried, and convicted of treason, and rightly so.

Where’s the outrage, democrats?


38 posted on 08/03/2016 6:10:58 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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Part of the State Department’s missing $6B?


41 posted on 08/03/2016 6:34:12 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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"A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money!" - Sen. Everett Dirksen

It would be bad enough if this money was coming out of the personal pockets of Obama and the DNC, but it isn't. If it is taxpayer money, it is coming out of our pockets!

By the way, isn't Congress supposed to be in charge of our money and is supposed to appropriate this stuff? It is not the President's to give away and especially to a mortal enemy! We are long past the point of needed to get a rope...

44 posted on 08/03/2016 6:56:13 AM PDT by Gritty ("Our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity and it's love" - A/G Loretta Lynch)
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The Obamessiah is just giving his muzzard brothers the money to finance their conquest of the West.


54 posted on 08/03/2016 9:02:22 AM PDT by Bigg Red (You're on fire, stupid!)
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this mookabooker, obammy is disgusting.
He’s made the American Feederal Gubmint a pathetic mooselimb loving joke.


62 posted on 08/03/2016 11:26:04 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) was on Fox today and said that the reason Iran wanted the ransom in cash was that it makes it easy to hand over the cash to support Hezbollah and their terrorism against Israel

Israel & the Region

Republicans blast $400m Iran ‘ransom,’ say it encourages kidnappings

White House denies funds paid to Islamic Republic were to secure release of detained US citizens; say it was interest for 30-year-old failed arms deal By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil August 3, 2016, 10:49 pm 1

The US is forbidden from engaging in dollar transactions with Iran, and so the funds were reportedly transferred into foreign currency, packed in crates, and transferred to Iran via Europe.

Prominent Republicans in the House and Senate alike argued Wednesday that the transfer of funds would undermine US security, particularly by encouraging Iran to detain more Americans, in the hopes of securing additional cash.

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dollars-iran.jpg

“It is nothing but a series of bribes and secret agreements that will do nothing to prevent Iran from reaching nuclear capability, yet will provide funding for their sponsorship of terrorism and encourage them to detain more of our citizens. This ‘deal’ should be ripped to shreds immediately before more damage is done.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/republicans-blast-400m-iran-ransom-say-it-encourages-kidnappings/


63 posted on 08/03/2016 2:19:27 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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