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President Obama Violated the Law with His Ransom Payment to Iran
National Review ^
| 08/06/16
| Andrew C. McCarthy Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438744/iran-ransom-payment-
Posted on 08/08/2016 12:33:45 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The president hoped to camouflage what he knew to be against the law in his dealings with Iran.
Did it ever occur to President Obama to ask why he couldn’t just cut a check to the Iranian regime? Outrage broke out this week over the revelation that Obama arranged to ship the mullahs piles of cash, worth $400 million and converted into foreign denominations, reportedly in an unmarked cargo plane. The hotly debated question was whether the payment, which the administration attributes to a 37-year-old arms deal, was actually a ransom paid for the release of American hostages Tehran had abducted.
The reason American policy has always prohibited paying ransoms to terrorists and other abductors is that it only encourages them to take more hostages. And, as night follows day, Iran has abducted more Americans since Obama paid the cash. No matter how energetically the president tries to lawyer the ransom issue, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck . . .
More worth examining is why the transaction took the bizarre form that it did. To cut to the chase, I believe it was to camouflage — unsuccessfully — the commission of felony law violations.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhomiddleeast; bhostatedept; clintonrico; illegal; iran; irannukerico; iranrico; kerryrico; obama4iran; obamarico; ransom; soskerry; terrorists; treason; treasonrico
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To: Enlightened1
He can do that. He’s a Kenyan with a “pen and a phone”.
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:34:45 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
To: Enlightened1
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:35:04 PM PDT
by
choctaw man
(Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
To: choctaw man
It’s illegal and the President has to go through congress.
We don’t elect dictators.
To: FlingWingFlyer
To: Enlightened1
One of many laws he has violated.
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:37:28 PM PDT
by
JohnnyP
To: JohnnyP
To: Enlightened1
And what will you quisling GOPe establishment pukes in congress do about it?
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:39:02 PM PDT
by
Lopeover
(2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
To: Enlightened1
We don’t elect dictators.
Apparently, we do.
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:39:13 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
(My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
To: Enlightened1
It’s only a problem (for him) if he doesn’t get away with it.
He’s the first black president. He’s gotten away with it...and anything else...before you can even ask.
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:40:58 PM PDT
by
Scott from the Left Coast
(Live Free or Die: We thought it was a neat old slogan from our past. We'd better think again.)
To: Nachoman
Apparently we did, and if Hillary is elected, we are again...at least she is NBC...
GO.TRUMP/PENCE.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:41:06 PM PDT
by
HarleyLady27
('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
To: Enlightened1
Who needs a pen and a phone when one has a nod and a wink. This is the most ransomesque non-ransom ransom I have ever seen in my born days.
It would bother me less if he just called it that, than this lying.
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:41:30 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Lopeover
“And what will you quisling GOPe establishment pukes in congress do about it?”
Shake his hand, have a beer with him, and praise him for his abilities.
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:41:45 PM PDT
by
Scott from the Left Coast
(Live Free or Die: We thought it was a neat old slogan from our past. We'd better think again.)
To: Lopeover
Continue to “quisl” and “quisl” ??
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:42:13 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Enlightened1
Aid and comfort to the enemy.
The U.S. Constitution has a word for that.
It should also apply to the individual members of the House of Representatives for their deliberate failure to carry out their responsiblity under Art. I Section 2.
To: Enlightened1
“We don’t elect dictators.”
More than half of American voters disagree with you, and worship the racist bigot dictator in the white mosque.
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:44:08 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Enlightened1
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:45:34 PM PDT
by
Calamari
(Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
To: Enlightened1
Law!? What law?
“rex non potest peccare” - The King can do no wrong!
and he’s a major peccar-head!
To: Enlightened1
Omuslim violates the law once a week. What else is new?
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posted on
08/08/2016 12:49:15 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Enlightened1
An impeachable offense if not outright treason, but Obama is above the law just like the Clinton’s.
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posted on
08/08/2016 1:01:23 PM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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