Treason, plain and simple

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...inancial-system.html

The Obama administration granted a license letting Iran access the United States financial system despite officials’ pledges that they would prohibit it, according to a draft report from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

“On Feb. 24, 2016, the Treasury Department issued a specific license to Bank Muscat to authorize the conversion of Iran’s rials to euros through ‘any United States depository institution …,’” the draft report said. “Even after the specific license was issued, U.S. government officials maintained in congressional testimony that Iran would not be granted access to the U.S. financial system.”

“The Obama administration during the negotiation of the Iran deal misled the American people,” said Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), subcommittee chairman. “I think they did so because they were desperate to get a deal.”

When the nations involved in the Iran nuclear agreement implemented the deal, Iran had $5.7 billion in assets at Bank Muscat in Muscat, Oman, maintained as Omani rials, according to the subcommittee. Iran wanted to access that money, and using the U.S. financial system to convert it “was the most efficient means, even though U.S. sanctions prohibited it,” according to the report.

Government officials tried to convince two U.S. banks to execute the conversion. They both declined, citing the complexity and the unwanted appearance involved in processing an Iranian transaction, according to the report.

Without a compliant American bank, a senior State Department official said he believed Bank Muscat and Iran eventually used European banks to convert the funds, said the committee.

Portman said his subcommittee began investigating the transaction last summer. In an interview with an unnamed senior State Department official, the panel said, the official acknowledged that the administration “’exceeded our JCPOA commitments’ because there was nothing in the JCPOA that required the issuance of the specific license,” according to the report. (JCPOA is the acronym for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran.)

A former administration official disputes the subcommittee's conclusion, saying the Treasury Department never authorized Iran to access U.S. investments or markets, conduct commercial transactions in U.S. dollars or open correspondent accounts at U.S. banks.

“This specific license cannot be described as ‘granting access to the U.S. financial system,’” the former official said. “This specific license was in fulfillment of JCPOA commitments to give Iran access to pools of its money held overseas. It was aimed solely to allow the movement of Iran’s own funds stranded at an Omani bank into euros at a European bank, where Iran could then make use of them.”

“The most transparent administration in history.”

The most disgusting part of this is that no one will be shocked, or even surprised. Par for the course under that administration.

99% of the media will proclaim that this is a big nothing burger, and resume their coverage of Trump's grand conspiracy with the Russians to cheat Hillary out of her turn.

The media can ignore it all they want, but its still a criminal act. I'd like to remain optimistic that heads are going to someday roll over the crap Obama and his criminal gang pulled.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
“The most transparent administration in history.”

Yeah...except it was to aid and abet our sworn enemies. God, I absolutely LOATHE that waste of a human being.

IF HRC had been elected much of this corruption would have remained in a dark hole.No wonder a former administration weaponized the FBI and intelligence agencies to to subvert Trump.

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Originally posted by Ken226:
The most disgusting part of this is that no one will be...

...arrested, prosecuted, or jailed. In early American times, such behavior would have been viewed as exactly what it is, an attempt to aid and abet enemies, and the individuals involved would have been hanged or imprisoned. And they say we've evolved as a culture since those times. Yeah, right.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
“The most transparent administration in history.”

Well technically they were.....it was just that the media refused to investigate and/or report it, but instead helped cover it up.

After that late night delivery of cash, nothing surprises me.
Still, pretty disappointing.

Obama couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it, too bad it doesn’t!

So desperate to make a deal yet they were allowed to make uranium outside of iran in Syria(as confirmed by israelis) and got a heapload of money and got this access. What did we get in return?

Treason is the appropriate word here.

Traitors and tyrants.

The bullet we dodged gets bigger and bigger every day.

Another piece of the growing shit-show that is the Obama legacy.

Somehow I’m not shocked. And don’t worry, Barry is will brag about “no scandals” during his administration. The news will drop this in a day or two and focus on Trump sneezing at an inopportune time or similar.

I think Donald Trump is going to straighten out our relationship with Iran.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
IF HRC had been elected much of this corruption would have remained in a dark hole.No wonder a former administration weaponized the FBI and intelligence agencies to to subvert Trump.

Yep.
The "Russian collusion" narrative was designed to deflect attention from Hillary and the Dems.
It's the "insurance policy" keeping them out of jail.
The entire MSM is complicit in the lies and propaganda.

Who are you talking about?

I'd like an answer, please