Thread: Secret Ransom Payment Is More Evidence of the Enormous Fraud of the Iran Deal

August 07, 2016, 09:59 am

Cotton: 'Shocking' to Americans that government acting like 'drug cartel'

By Rebecca Savransky




Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Sunday slammed the Obama administration for its $400 million cash payment to Iran.

"The administration has consistently stonewalled Congress and the American people. We didn't know @ the cash payment for instance, we didn't know that it was paid for with bills that could be easily laundered and used for terrorism...we didn't know that the Department of Justice opposed it," he said.

"I think it's really shocking to most Americans that the United States government was acting like a drug cartel...stacking cash on a pallet and wrapping it in cellophane and flying it in an unmarked aircraft to give to the world's worst state-sponsored terrorism."

Cotton said there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered on the issue.

Last week, reports surfaced that the Obama administration had airlifted $400 million cash in foreign currencies to Iran, with the payment arriving on the same day that four American prisoners were released.

The money was the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement that the two countries agreed to regarding an abandoned arms deal from the 1970s.

President Obama has said the payment was not a ransom payment.

"It doesn't really matter though what President Obama says," Cotton said Sunday.

"It matters what the Iranians think and it matters what dictators, terrorists and gangsters all around the world think and they clearly think that this was a ransom payment."

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