sdelaney42 Loc: Clawson, Michigan

Does this story have legs? I wonder if it will amount to anything. I guess we'll find out later today if the MSM mentions this issue at all. The story was first reported by the WSJ later yesterday.

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

Come on.... Its clearly just a coincidence.

How could a secret shipment of foreign palletized cash delivered on the same day as the hostages were released possibly be related to the hostages?

Only a homophobic Islamophobic racist could connect the two.

mongo Loc: TEXAS

I blame the "Hokey, Pokey". That's what it's all about!

SEMPER FI

vettelover Loc: Richmond Va

Exactly. What I want to know is how did Obama get the $400 million? GOP has the purse strings, right? Theoretically! That is not chump change by all means.

JONDO

If you want to make the world a more dangerous place Pay the blackmail money like Obama does, He is a half wit who should be out picking cotton some where. Maybe he could legalize cotton for Americans to smoke. The liberal side would love it.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

It's business as usual for BO, nothing more.. Political Ransom better defines...

The Obama administration strongly denied paying any ransom to Iran, Brennan says, but according to details first reported by the Wall Street Journal, currency worth $400 million was flown into Tehran on a cargo plane around the same time that the Americans were released.

The plane was loaded with cash: Euros, Swiss Francs and other currencies, since any transaction with Iran in dollars is illegal under United States law.

Senior U.S. officials, Brennan reports, claimed the timing was coincidental: President Obama had planned to pay Tehran nearly 2 billion dollars to settle an outstanding legal dispute from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

"With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well," Obama said.

But the administration never consulted congress, according to Republican Congressman Ed Royce, who accused the White House of paying ransom to a state sponsor of terrorism, and as details of the cash became public Tuesday, there were instant reverberations on the campaign trail.

"The administration airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran," Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Mike Pence said. "You know we cannot have four more years accommodating and apologizing to our enemies or abandoning our friends."<snip>...

Never consulted Congress, yet 400 million is sent over to Iran, no less, and exactly what is the intent of this walking POS??

He should be charged with grand theft, but you see, we'll never know, other than once again he usurped protocol involving whomever to get that all denomination fund...From where??

He has no respect for the rules just does as he damn pleases..You can bet his Jarrett was at the helm of this one too....

mongo Loc: TEXAS

On the flip-side, trade 4 or 5 terrorists that have merciless wounded, disfigured, or killed Americans and swore to kill the rest when given the opportunity, and then do a prisoner exchange for one deserting, traitor, then call the traitor a hero!

SEMPER FI

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Obama's style of negotiation; pay the ransom!!

JONDO

Wait till he starts using American citizens to pay these blackmailing B_____DS off , Thats next. We make good targets for target practice. Thats what thr using our soldiers for in Iraq

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Where do you think the money came from??

sdelaney42 Loc: Clawson, Michigan

The $400 million came an Iranian account that was frozen, along with a lot of other assets, including money, when Iran stormed our embassy in Tehran and held our diplomats hostage for 440 odd days. I don't see the point of bringing Congress into this discussion. Or, am I missing something?

The bigger issue is we have a president who is going around and doing whatever he wants to do regardless of the law, common sense and decency. He, and everyone associated with his illegal administration, including, especially, Hillary Clinton, should be arrested, or somehow or another, arrested in order to prevent future crimes, mistakes, and oversights.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Nailed IT you did!!!!

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

He maybe pulled it out of Hillary's rear end!

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Riiighhhttt, and where's the outrage?? Ohhhh, wait, dismissed, he's on the way out, no need to hold him accountable, bring him before Congress to get answers to his deed, is there..... pffffft, this wimp ass administration is a joke!!

The whole lot of them...2017 hurryyyyyy up!!!

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

So many terrorists to please.. So little time.