Posted on 09/08/2016 3:43:15 AM PDT by Helicondelta
The Obama administration failed to inform a number of Democratic lawmakers that a $1.7 billion payment the U.S. sent to Iran earlier this year would be made wholly in cash, according to senators who spoke to THE WEEKLY STANDARD Wednesday.
"I did not know about [the cash payment], not until after reading about it," Michigan senator Gary Peters told TWS. "I had no prior knowledge of that."
Peters said that there was an "understanding" that "some payments" would be made, but did not recall being told that the transaction would occur in cash.
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who opposed the Iran nuclear deal, said that he did not know that the payment "was happening at all."
"I was not [briefed]," he said. "I just saw that."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
This, like the first $400M ransom payment, was a money laundering operation and therefore had to be in cash.
There are laws explicitly prohibiting any payment of this kind to Iran in any form, but Obama is pretending, and wants us to believe, that paying ransom via U.S. dollars converted into Euros &c is legal even though paying ransom via U.S. dollars converted into a wire transfer is not.
Guess they and Barry needed to read about it in the media. So, whos running the show??
Democrats needed to be told? How stupid are they? Ransom is always paid in cash.
Which leads to the question “Where did the rest of the money go”?
Where did the funding come from? Even if the cash was held in escrow the people who bundled and delivered it (plus transport costs) had to be paid.
The GOP holds the house and the Senate and they enabled this. They own it too.
Another example of why we need to tear that party apart and remake it.
That is total BS
You attribute power and more importantly knowledge that is totally lacking
your anti Republican bias is pathetic
It is my understanding that the payment was irans assets seized in the 70s.
Why isn’t this bastard in jail yet?
Hussein + Congress together own this lock, stock and barrel. They all better be held to account. Nooses work for me.
“They entire payment was made in cash?”
Unmarked 10’s and 20’s no doubt.
Iran and the U.S.A. do not have regular banking electronic payment/transfer capabilities.
Thus it needed to be cash.
I also heard/read..no U.S. bills.
Don't know the accuracy of the above..though.
bttt
And yeah, I have a bias against the republicans in congress who promised us many things, chief among them to stop illegal immigration, repeal Obamacare, reduce government spending, fight islamic terrorism and blunt Obama and who have done none of those things. In most cases, they have supported and fought for the opposite, right in line with Obama. Having the power to stop him and willfully refusing to use it is the same as helping him.
So they question is, why do you continue to support and defend them? Their promises mean nothing and they are not even trying to stop the democrat agenda. Heck, Paul Ryan ADDED money to Obama's budget request. They are useless.
When the GOP stops lying to us and starts defending the constitution and our rights, I'll support them fully. But they don't get a free pass from me for looking the other way while Obama wrecks the country.
I'm not buying that one. International money transfers are handled through intermediary banks all the time. You can even get funds from Israel to China through intermediary countries viewed as neutral by both hostile nations.
Fair enough...that’s what I read..or heard.
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