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Your Attorney General Just Pleaded the 5th

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What could possibly be wrong (illegal?) about paying ransom demands in cash to state sponsors of terror? ;)
 
What could possibly be wrong (illegal?) about paying ransom demands in cash to state sponsors of terror? ;)

What is sad is that the AG is that much of a corrupt hack that she can't tell the truth.

Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I do

So Mrs. AG what do you know about Iran payment.

Umm yea I plead the 5th on the grounds I might incriminate myself LOL.
 
What is sad is that the AG is that much of a corrupt hack that she can't tell the truth.

How dare you question the most transparent administration in history? That is racist! ;)
 
How dare you question the most transparent administration in history? That is racist! ;)

it is probably sexist to question our AG lack of ethics as well, but it is what it is.
 
Loretta Lynch 'pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions' on $1.7bn payments to Iran | Daily Mail Online
Loretta Lynch 'pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions' on $1.7bn payments to Iran

It seems that Obama's Attorney General needed to seek protection of the 5th Amendment to keep from incriminating herself. This entire administration has been corrupt for 8 years. Is anyone surprised?

If I understand the article correctly, she did not plead the 5th, but evaded answering questions. This does not mean, I do not think that her boss coming out of the political organization and city he does, does not understand the use of bribes. Let's hope that the Senate keeps after her after she is out of office.
 
Loretta Lynch 'pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions' on $1.7bn payments to Iran | Daily Mail Online
Loretta Lynch 'pleads the fifth to avoid answering questions' on $1.7bn payments to Iran

It seems that Obama's Attorney General needed to seek protection of the 5th Amendment to keep from incriminating herself. This entire administration has been corrupt for 8 years. Is anyone surprised?

She was not on trial.
She did not plead the Fifth.
She did not answer the questions that the Republicans in Congress wanted answered.
They know, and anyone who has been paying attention knows, that the 1.7 billion was Iranian assets to begin with.

This is yet another non story blown up to be something that it is not.
 
She was not on trial.
She did not plead the Fifth.
She did not answer the questions that the Republicans in Congress wanted answered.
They know, and anyone who has been paying attention knows, that the 1.7 billion was Iranian assets to begin with.

This is yet another non story blown up to be something that it is not.

Have you ever, even once, read an article that pointed to nefarious activity by the Democrat party without summarily dismissing it?
Because, you know, that might indicate a bias problem.....just saying

Let's make this clear.....Ms. Lynch may have gone a step more sinister than pleading the 5th.
She probably feels that her position, with the protections afforded from the white House and supposedly from the next presumed President, is beyond reproach. Literally, above the law.
She declines to cooperate with an investigation led by Congressional leaders.. Why? What powers has the right exhibited in recent years to give someone like the head of the DOJ reason to fear?

This is not in the spirit of transparent government For The People, By The People in any way I can imagine.

As far as the Iranian assets,...The deal was supposed to be the unfreezing of assets IN EXCHANGE for certain reductions or curtailment of Iranian nuclear weapons ambitions.
Iran has Clearly broken the terms of the agreement and openly stated they will not adhere to any nuclear restrictions that interfere with it's national "defense" objectives.
But rhetoric from Iran clearly indicates "defense" means offense.

In other words, they agreed to nothing in exchange for the money. While it may have been theirs, we are dealing with a nation sworn to our destruction and the destruction of other nations.
In some ways like North Korea. You don't "fund" those types of regimes.

Conversely to your statement, it would appear you are underestimating or dismissing significant events.
 
She was not on trial.
She did not plead the Fifth.
She did not answer the questions that the Republicans in Congress wanted answered.
They know, and anyone who has been paying attention knows, that the 1.7 billion was Iranian assets to begin with.

This is yet another non story blown up to be something that it is not.

Yes we know that version of the story.

There is no evidence to back it up though.
 
She was not on trial.
She did not plead the Fifth.
She did not answer the questions that the Republicans in Congress wanted answered.
They know, and anyone who has been paying attention knows, that the 1.7 billion was Iranian assets to begin with.

This is yet another non story blown up to be something that it is not.

you are only confusing those on the right with the facts
 
Have you ever, even once, read an article that pointed to nefarious activity by the Democrat party without summarily dismissing it?
Because, you know, that might indicate a bias problem.....just saying

Let's make this clear.....Ms. Lynch may have gone a step more sinister than pleading the 5th.
She probably feels that her position, with the protections afforded from the white House and supposedly from the next presumed President, is beyond reproach. Literally, above the law.
She declines to cooperate with an investigation led by Congressional leaders.. Why? What powers has the right exhibited in recent years to give someone like the head of the DOJ reason to fear?

This is not in the spirit of transparent government For The People, By The People in any way I can imagine.

As far as the Iranian assets,...The deal was supposed to be the unfreezing of assets IN EXCHANGE for certain reductions or curtailment of Iranian nuclear weapons ambitions.
Iran has Clearly broken the terms of the agreement and openly stated they will not adhere to any nuclear restrictions that interfere with it's national "defense" objectives.
But rhetoric from Iran clearly indicates "defense" means offense.

In other words, they agreed to nothing in exchange for the money. While it may have been theirs, we are dealing with a nation sworn to our destruction and the destruction of other nations.
In some ways like North Korea. You don't "fund" those types of regimes.

Conversely to your statement, it would appear you are underestimating or dismissing significant events.

I'm an equal-opportunity party basher. This Congressional investigation is nothing but a Witch Hunt. The people doing the investigating already know the answers to their questions.
 
She was not on trial.
She did not plead the Fifth.
She did not answer the questions that the Republicans in Congress wanted answered.
They know, and anyone who has been paying attention knows, that the 1.7 billion were Iranian assets to begin with.

This is yet another nonstory blown up to be something that it is not.

That's in the real world, where some never set foot.
 
The US Attorney General, the "Chief Law Enforcement Office of The United States" is pleading the fifth to avoid disclosing information that might incriminate herself.

Think about that for a moment.
 
What could possibly be wrong (illegal?) about paying ransom demands in cash to state sponsors of terror? ;)

Well since they were not a ransom but in reality their own money, the entire "issue" is nothing but more politicking by the right.
 
President Trump ought to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Lynch's corruption. Leftists have constructed a yuge swamp in need of draining.
 
The US Attorney General, the "Chief Law Enforcement Office of The United States" is pleading the fifth to avoid disclosing information that might incriminate herself.

Think about that for a moment.

Some people believe what they read on internet blogs. Think about that for a minute.
 
Well since they were not a ransom but in reality their own money, the entire "issue" is nothing but more politicking by the right.

Then why didn't she just say that?
 
Don't forget to include the former administrations.

But JFK was so long ago. An Oswald guy went pow pow in his face.
 
Yes we know that version of the story.

There is no evidence to back it up though.
When you say there is no evidence to back it up, what exactly do you mean?
The US Attorney General, the "Chief Law Enforcement Office of The United States" is pleading the fifth to avoid disclosing information that might incriminate herself.

Think about that for a moment.
That didn't happen. Perhaps you should spend less time thinking about things that didn't happen and more time investigating stories which simply seem to juicy to be true. Like what happened in this story.

It really is a shame more people simply don't care about finding facts and will believe anything which tells them what they want to hear.
Is it your position that Lynch didn't plead the 5th?
Yes...because she didn't. Read the actual letter from which your biased sources purposefully misled you.

http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/up...ter-to-DoJ-re-Initial-Iran-Payment-Letter.pdf


You really shouldn't put so much stock into obviously biased sources.
 
The US Attorney General, the "Chief Law Enforcement Office of The United States" is pleading the fifth to avoid disclosing information that might incriminate herself.

Think about that for a moment.

Next time, read the article...
 


She did not plead the fifth. The Congressional witch hunters didn't even say that, only that her not answering their questions was "like" having plead the fifth.

The response from the attorney general’s office is “unacceptable” and provides evidence that Lynch has chosen to “essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries regarding [her] role in providing cash to the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism,” Rubio and Pompeo wrote on Friday in a follow-up letter to Lynch, according to a copy obtained by the Free Beacon.

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"Pleading the fifth" is their interpretation of her refusal to answer questions that they already know the answers to, to wit:

The money was part of Iranian assets frozen since the Ayatolla Khomeni took over from the Shaw. It was money paid for fighter jets that the US was not willing to deliver to the new regime. It was a part of the agreement that stopped Iran's nuclear weapons program, and not money "paid as ransom." The inquirers know this, but want to make partisan political hay out of a non issue.
 
She did not plead the fifth. The Congressional witch hunters didn't even say that, only that her not answering their questions was "like" having plead the fifth.



source

"Pleading the fifth" is their interpretation of her refusal to answer questions that they already know the answers to, to wit:

The money was part of Iranian assets frozen since the Ayatolla Khomeni took over from the Shaw. It was money paid for fighter jets that the US was not willing to deliver to the new regime. It was a part of the agreement that stopped Iran's nuclear weapons program, and not money "paid as ransom." The inquirers know this, but want to make partisan political hay out of a non issue.
Facts really do get in the way of a juicy story, don't they?
 
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