It looks like the State Department is having a hard time explaining away the Obama administration’s payment of $400 million to Iran in exchange for the release of 4 captured Americans.
Of course, they deny that it was paid in order to secure the release of the hostages: they insist that the transfer of the money was merely the end result of a 40 year old deal meant to be made between the US and the Shah of Iran that got held up when he was overthrown and the Ayatollah took over.
It was precisely this point that State Department spokesperson John Kirby tried to sell on Fox News, but to little avail. It didn’t help that he referred to the payment not as a “ransom” but as “leverage” in order to get the Iranians to release the prisoners, basically undermining his and the entire administration’s narrative surrounding the incident.
Watch Kirby’s Fox News interview on the next page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brs3620JNhc
Another slimy liar.
IT WAS RANSOM!!! YOU DUMB IDIOT!!!!
every thing the do they have to put a spin on it because it is crooked
Ransom is ransom. No matter how you look at it
B******T
America is So Tired of the Corruption in the DOJ, FBI and All Levels of Goverment and in the Media. Our Country is in Deep$#%&!@*Folks. Better Vote for Trump to get our Country back…God Bless the Good Old USA.. We going to need it.. Trump 2016
He sounds more and more like an SNL skit every time I hear him.
We know what ransom is Gumby. This time it was 400 million bucks.
Lyin$#%&!@*!!!