Integrity, doing the right thing, and character don't pay as well Mitch. Helps me sleep at night knowing I provide for my family at the expense of what I am suppose to represent."
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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IIRC, these are not taxpayer funds but frozen Iranian accounts.
Maybe. Don't think I haven't thought about that.
So far as he says. He's a liar most of the time, ya know.
Then shouldn't be any problem telling Congress how Iran was paid, right?
This is how ANGOLA is ruled.
Or maybe Venezuela.
Exactly!! Is this what we’ve come to accept????
And I’m constantly told that a Article V convention of the states would be dangerous.
As you said, the tyranny is here.
But hey, let’s feel good about ourselves and just keep voting as if we live in a republic.
Do we still have a constitution left after 8 years of this POS?
“Absolute lawlessness. Tyranny. Dictatorship”
All this happening under Speaker ryan.
He’s the one allowing the imposter to play these games.
Someone on FR posted information regarding the foreign military sales contract that had been negotiated prior to the seizing of the US Embassy. That event nullified the contract and Iran lost the rights to any funds paid up front. We didn’t owe Iran a dime.
The incredibleness continues
garnish his wages until it’s paid off
“IIRC, these are not taxpayer funds but frozen Iranian accounts.”
There is the problem. They couldn’t access those funds so they used taxpayer funds that were not appropriated by Congress.
see post 24
Who needs congress if they can’t/won’t do anything?
This is why we have JUDICIAL WATCH!
Yes, if you have Lyin’ Ryan as “speaker” of the House, and Mitch “Turtle Face” McDumbo as “majority” leader in the Senate. A pathetic group of feckless fools at every position, not to mention the feckless fool on the hill.
It came from the missing 6 billion from the state dept
Or maybe Venezuela.
I half jokingly said when he was elected:
This "African" leader is going to run our country the way African leaders run African countries.
I'm really not surprised that he has been a corrupt bumbling failure.
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