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And since when do we negotiate with terrorists which has a long standing policy of do not do it? Nobama and Hillary have been doing just that for years.
His and her foriegn policy has been a fiasco!Do yourself a favor people -- vote for anybody except Hillbillary next Tuesday.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -Iran.html Loretta Lynch 'pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions' on $1.7bn payments to Iran Sen Marco Rubio and Rep Mike Pompeo blasted Lynch in a letter Friday
Said Attorney General had refused to answer 'straightforward' questions
Fifth Amendment keeps people from being witnesses against themselves
The United States paid $1.7bn to Iran as settlement for failed arms deal
By Clemence Michallon For Dailymail.com
Published: 12:45 EDT, 29 October 2016 | Updated: 11:35 EDT, 31 October 2016
Loretta Lynch is 'pleading the fifth' to dodge questions about $1.7 billion payments made by the United States to Iran, two members of Congress have claimed.
Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Mike Pompeo wrote a letter to Attorney General Lynch Friday, accusing her of refusing to answer 'straightforward questions' about the payments.
The Fifth Amendment keeps people from having to be witnesses against themselves in a criminal case. Commonly, 'pleading the fifth' means refusing to provide information that might incriminate oneself.
The United States gave $.17 billion to Iran in three different payments, the first of which, worth $400,000 was made in January.
Tehran agreed to release four American prisoners the same day, prompting Republicans to denounce the payment as ransom. Rubio has been one of the most vocal voices supporting that claim, which the White House has denied.
Rubio and Pompeo's letter, published by the Washington Free Beacon, a Conservative website, begins by slamming Lynch for failing to answer 'any' of their questions
'As the United States' chief law enforcement officer, it is outrageous that you would essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries,' Rubio and Pompeo wrote.
'The actions of your department come at time when Iran continues to hold Americans hostage and unjustly sentence them to prison.'
Rubio (left) and Pompeo wrote a letter to Attorney General Lynch Friday, accusing her of refusing to answer 'straightforward questions' about the payments
The United States' payment to Iran settled a decades-long failed arm deal dating back to before 1979.
Iran had ordered and paid $400,000 worth of fighter jets, but the United States froze the delivery when the Shah was overthrown in 1979.
The United States paid back these $400,000 plus $1.3 billion of interest.
Barack Obama announced the payments in January, when the Iran deal was struck.
'The United States and Iran are now settling a longstanding Iranian government claim against the United States government. Iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest, but much less than the amount Iran sought,' he said.
Rubio in September became the main sponsor of a bill that would bar similar payments to Tehran until Iran pays the nearly $55.6 billion that US courts say Iran owes to American victims of Iranian terrorism.
Lynch has not replied publicly to Rubio and Pompeo's letter.