While the media insists on whining about something or other that Trump said, it's largely reducing the major story of Obama's cash smuggling to Iran to a back page story. Even as more revelations continue to come out about the unmarked cargo plane full of foreign money that Obama dispatched to Iran.
Senior Justice Department officials objected to sending a plane loaded with cash to Tehran at the same time that Iran released four imprisoned Americans, but their objections were overruled by the State Department, according to people familiar with the discussions.
After announcing the release of the Americans in January, President Barack Obama also said the U.S. would pay $1.7 billion to Iran to settle a failed arms deal dating back to 1979. What wasn’t disclosed then was that the first payment would be $400 million in cash, flown in at the same time, as The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
The timing and manner of the payment raised alarms at the Justice Department, according to those familiar with the discussions. “People knew what it was going to look like, and there was concern the Iranians probably did consider it a ransom payment,’’ said one of the people.
The Iranians considered it a ransom payment because that's what it was. Not to mention that it was a blatant attempt to dodge the law using tactics that look a lot like those of drug dealers.
But whatever was left of the DOJ after Holder had gotten through with it was squashed by State. Because appeasing terrorists, at least Islamic ones, comes ahead of the law.
The Justice Department raised other objections to the Iran deals. Prosecutors were concerned that the U.S. would release too many Iranian convicts and drop too many pending criminal cases against people suspected of violating sanctions laws.
They prevailed regarding some of the suspects—those accused or suspected of crimes of terrorism or other violence—but the objections on others were overruled, according to the people familiar with the discussions.
Just like Gitmo, Obama got his way. Justice lost. Terrorists won. Obama won. America lost.