Most transparent administration in history

GrundleStiltzkin

http://twitter.com/WSJ/status/766024968601763840

U.S. officials wouldn't let Iranians take control of the money until a Swiss Air Force plane carrying three freed Americans departed from Tehran on Jan. 17, the officials said. Once that happened, an Iranian cargo plane was allowed to bring the cash back from a Geneva airport that day, according to the accounts.

President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials have said the payment didn’t amount to ransom, because the money was owed by the U.S. to Iran as part of a longstanding dispute linked to a failed arms deal from the 1970s. U.S. officials have said that the prisoner release and cash transfer took place through two separate diplomatic channels.

PurpleJ

Someone should put Obama on hahanothatsnotme.gif

Oh, and we don't negotiate with terrorists.

RaceBannon

Old news

Reported in January

GrundleStiltzkin

RaceBannon said:

Old news

Reported in January

Honda, sven, true?!

2001400ex

Everybody does it.

CirrhosisDawg

Ransom1!1!!!1

This has legs....

DerekJohnson

Fleenor knew about this back in '79

GrundleStiltzkin

Obama's R-Word for Iran

One may reasonably ask: Why did the Obama Administration persist with such an obviously preposterous cover story? Mr. Obama offered one honest answer amid his original denial. We didn’t pay a ransom, the President said, “precisely because if we did we’d start encouraging Americans to be targeted.”

Mr. Obama, meanwhile, spent August denying that a ransom was a ransom. Since the January “leverage” moment, Iran has taken three more Americans as hostage and is now demanding the return of $2 billion in funds that U.S. courts have ordered held for the victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism. The eyes of the world can simply stare.

CirrhosisDawg

Ransom!!?1one1!!
Obama is preposterous.
This has legs...

GrandpaSankey

Transparent?