{"id":29025,"date":"2016-08-18T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=29025"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:35:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:35:15","slug":"watch-state-dept-spokesman-admits-400m-cash-iran-ransom-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/watch-state-dept-spokesman-admits-400m-cash-iran-ransom-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch State Dept Spokesman Admits $400M Cash to Iran Was Ransom Payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh oh looks like a fight is brewing between State Dept and white house! Emperor obama was very clear the US does not pay ransom and the admin already disclosed money going to Iran: <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fkuj17hN2A0?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;we announced these payments in January, many months ago, there wasn&#8217;t a secret we announced them to all of you&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hm! Then why is the State Dept&#8217;s spokesman John Kirby more or less admitting the $400M was a ransom payment?!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Hv09zeG2Yg?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reporter: <i>you&#8217;re saying that you wouldn&#8217;t give them [Iran] the $400 million in cash until the prisoners were released, correct?<\/i><br \/>\nKirby: <i>That&#8217;s correct<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That ladies and gents in the real world is called a ransom payment!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\nBREAKING: State Dept. says $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on American prisoners&#8217; release.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/766358829739175936\">August 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_UNITED_STATES_IRAN?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2016-08-18-15-49-33\">US Says $400M Payment Was Contingent on Release of Prisoners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now another big question not being answered is WHERE did the white house get the $400m in cash to handover to Iran? Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/articlei\">Article 1 Section 9<\/a> Congress must approve of withdrawal of funds:<br \/>\n<i>No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t hold your breath for Congress to do anything about this they are impotent, incompetent and irreverent under this Banana Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Full press briefing segment on Iran payment<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9NqPKLYBXyY?start=3746&amp;end=4524\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh oh looks like a fight is brewing between State Dept and white house! Emperor obama was very clear the US does not pay ransom and the admin already disclosed money going to Iran: &#8220;we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[41021],"tags":[43041,42353,18726],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Watch-State-Dept-Spokesman-Admits-400M-Cash-to-Iran-Was-Ransom-Payment.png?fit=640%2C361","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29029,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29025\/revisions\/29029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}