The Duke
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^Looks like this topic is in your "wheelhouse", I get it.Really?
First, President Barack Obama failed to disclose to Congress the existence of secret side deals on inspections when he transmitted the nuclear accord to Capitol Hill. (They were only uncovered by chance when then-Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) learned about them during a meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency officials in Vienna.) Then, we learned that the Obama administration had secretly sent a plane to Tehran loaded with $400 million in Swiss francs, euros and other currencies on the same day Iran released four American hostages, which was followed by two more secret flights carrying another $1.3 billion in cash.
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In July 2015, Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that, under the nuclear accord, Iran “will continue to be denied access to the [US] financial and commercial market” and that “Iranian banks will not be able to clear US dollars through New York, hold correspondent account relationships with US financial institutions, or enter into financing arrangements with US banks.” A few weeks later, one of Lew’s top deputies, Adam Szubin, used the exact same words in testimony to the Senate banking committee.
But Senate investigators found that on Feb. 24, 2016, the Obama Treasury Department “granted a specific license that authorized a conversion of Iranian assets worth billions of US dollars using the US financial system” — exactly what Lew and Szubin said would not happen — including unlimited future Iranian deposits at Bank Muscat in Oman until the license expired.
Not only that, Senate investigators found that officials from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which regulates US banks’ compliance with US sanctions law, “encouraged two US correspondent banks to convert the funds.” The report says “both banks declined to complete the transaction due to compliance, reputational, and legal risks associated with doing business with Iran.
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Then, after issuing the license, the Obama administration explicitly denied to Congress that it had done so. Lew and Szubin both failed to disclose the license in congressional testimony while continuing to assert that the Obama administration would not give Iran access to US financial institutions — when they had just tried to do so. And in a June 2016 letter to Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Treasury officials declared “The US Department of Treasury is not working on behalf of Iran to enable Iranian access to US dollars elsewhere in the international financial system, nor are we assisting Iran in gaining access to dollar payment systems outside the US financial system. The Administration has not been and is not planning to grant Iran access to the US financial system.” This was patently false.
Obama Took Lying to New Heights with the Iran Deal
When it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama administration increasingly appears to have been a bottomless pit of deception.www.aei.org
My wheelhouse is Biden's total fuckup of the Afghanistan withdrawal and how all news comes from AP and Reuters and is BS and a few other things.
Cash4Clunkers, "Green Energy" Scams 1 &2, Bush bailouts..
Bah. It leads to negative thinking, and I'm trying to be positive today.
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