It looks like the State Department is having a hard time explaining away the Obama administration’s payment of $400 million to Iran in exchange for the release of 4 captured Americans.
Of course, they deny that it was paid in order to secure the release of the hostages: they insist that the transfer of the money was merely the end result of a 40 year old deal meant to be made between the US and the Shah of Iran that got held up when he was overthrown and the Ayatollah took over.
It was precisely this point that State Department spokesperson John Kirby tried to sell on Fox News, but to little avail. It didn’t help that he referred to the payment not as a “ransom” but as “leverage” in order to get the Iranians to release the prisoners, basically undermining his and the entire administration’s narrative surrounding the incident.
Watch Kirby’s Fox News interview on the next page:
Another overpaid talker. Does ANYONE in this obamaland administration tell the truth? WHO?
What a pos this guy is just like the lying pos Josh Ernest.
Ransom is a fee you pay in order to get something in return which turned out to be hostages, don’t stand there and talk to us like we are ignorant, we all know what you did and you know what you did, for once just tell us the truth, I know that’s against everything you liberals believe in but for once just say the truth.
State department is a joke. We know this ! They are all paid for and corrupt as hell
Ransom is ransom and it treason
Clinton tried to describe what “is” with Monica. They all seem to have a problem with definitions
Leverage is ransom
were not stupid
We know what it is but you seem confused so–ransom is when you kidnap someone and charge the family/government to get them back.
Obama’s America.