WATCH: Army Col. Drops Bombshell About How Obama Got Sailors Released From Iran

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A retired Army colonel told Newsmax TV Wednesday that he believed a $1.7 billion payment made to Iran just after several kidnapped American sailors were released by the Iranian military ostensibly constituted a ransom payment to Tehran.

The payment was made one day after 10 sailors were released by Iran in January, timing that Col. Derek Harvey believed very suspect.

“The timing is absolutely suspicious, and given the track record of the administration it does look like there is a quid pro quo,” Col. Harvey said.

Harvey was appearing on “Newsmax Prime” to help promote The No Impunity for Iranian Aggression at Sea Act, a bill being pushed by Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. That bill would force the White House to release a report on whether or not the $1.7 billion payment to Iran was, in essence, a ransom.

“After the Iranians captured 10 U.S. Navy sailors, President Obama mentioned these brave men and women only in passing in his last State of the Union address,” Rep. Pompeo told the Washington Free Beacon.

“Since then, instead of investigating whether the Iranians violated the Geneva Convention and the right of innocent passage, the Obama administration has only offered apologies and then fired an American naval officer.

“There has been no criticism of the Iranians, no public explanation of why these Americans were forced on their knees, hands on their heads, or why they were forced to confess — nothing from President Obama that would send a signal that this is an unacceptable way to treat American sailors.”

Col. Harvey said that if the administration had been transparent, there wouldn’t have been any need for this.

“They would not be having to respond to pressure from Congress,” Harvey said.

The idea that President Obama not only allowed our troops to be used as pawns by the sick Iranian government but then paid them $1.7 billion to get them out of hock shows how utterly impotent our government has become.

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