Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
\nRemember when the US sent a check to Switzerland to be cashed into a pallet of bills and flown to Iran, where hostages were held at the airport until the money arrived?<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Remember when President Obama said that was not ransom<\/span><\/a>, that the United States didn\u2019t pay ransom<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Now they\u2019re saying it was a<\/span> refund<\/span> due for a never-completed arms deal from the 1970\u2019s<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0And of course we tied the payment to the release of hostages.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t have been prudent<\/span><\/a> to just give them money and hope they released the hostages, since we weren\u2019t paying ransom.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>And it wasn’t money laundering either, and wasn’t done to subvert the law against providing assistance to Iran. \u00a0The fact that it was done in secret, converted from fiat money to US cash to Foreign cash, in foreign banks without extradition or information sharing, was not relevant to their good intentions.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Pathetic.\u00a0 Who makes up these lies?<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Someone who can count on the American people being badly educated, incurious, too hooked on reality TV (including a reality TV election) to pay much attention, and a media that will never, ever question him?<\/p>\n
Just off the top of my head, I mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember when the US sent a check to Switzerland to be cashed into a pallet of bills and flown to Iran, where hostages were held at the airport until the money arrived?\u00a0 \u00a0Remember when President Obama said that was not ransom, that the United States didn\u2019t pay ransom? \u00a0Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60027,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60026\/revisions\/60027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}