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:
PLUS OBAMA GAVE ONLY $5 MILLION FOR BERGDAHL, SO WHY NOT ONLY $20 MILLION FOR THE 4 AMERICANS THE IRANIANS HELD HOSTAGE…?
JOSH EARHEST STOP YOUR LIES ,, EVERY TIME YOU COME ON TO SAY ANYTHING WE KNOW ITS GOING BE A LIE ,,, YOU AND A.G. LORETTA LYNCH,, NANCY PELOSE ,,,,ERC HOLDER,,,,CAROLYN WALKER DIALLO,,,,,HILLARY CLINTON ,,,,,BILL CLINTON ,,,,ANDRE CARSON,.,,,BLACK CAUCUS,,,,ALL PART OF MAFIA THEIR ARE A LOT MORE CAN’T NAME ALL THEIR SO MANY TAKING TAX PAYER MONEY
If the “RED LINE IN THE SAND” had been adherred to, Iran would now be like “Quiet Kadaffi”
IT WAS FUCKING RANSOM MONEY! DON’T TRY AND PUT A SPIN ON IT!
This was a bribe to keep Iran quiet about the truth they know about obummer. Not ransom a BRIBE.
Lie then lie some more
Admiral you
In other words, they PAID ransom.
These folks in the obama administration are like a bunch of cats trying to bury their c**p in the litter box.
dud you need to have the word ransom explained to you