Shock
News: Attorney General Loretta Lynch “Pleads the Fifth” on Iran Payoff!
“Pleading
the Fifth” has become a kind of pop-culture reference with the rise in
popularity of TV cop dramas.
We hear the phrase often in our
popular media and we’ve come to believe it’s just something one says when
facing down the authorities. However, it really isn’t that common of an event,
and it can still be quite surprising when someone uses the phrase in a government
hearing…Especially when that someone is the Attorney General of the United States.
Congress has been looking into the
highly questionable, and seemingly illegal payment that the Obama
administration recently made to our enemies in Iran. As part of their
investigation they’ve called the Attorney General to testify before them about
the administration’s attempts to secretly send $1.7 BILLION to Iran. Senator
Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) sent Lynch a letter with a
series of questions about the how the payment was first approved and then
delivered. However, in response to their inquiry the Attorney General sent one
of her assistants to Congress to relay her message that she would not be saying anything else about the Iran
payout.
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Rubio and Pompeo responded almost immediately, calling the AG’s reticence to answer
to the American people, “unacceptable.”
“It is frankly unacceptable that
your department refuses to answer straightforward questions from the people’s
elected representatives in Congress about an important national security issue.
Your staff failed
to address any of our questions, and instead provided a copy of public
testimony and a lecture about the sensitivity of information associated with
this issue.
As the United States’ chief law
enforcement officer, it is outrageous that you would essentially plead the
fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries. The actions of your department come at time when Iran
continues to hold Americans hostage and unjustly sentence them to prison.”
The Washington Free Beacon reached out to Rep. Pompeo, who was
happy to express his disgust with the AG’s decision to stonewall Congress and
cover for Obama.
“Who knew that simple questions regarding Attorney
General Lynch’s approval of billions of dollars in payments to Iran could be so
controversial that she would refuse to answer them? This has become the Obama
administration’s coping mechanism for anything related to the Islamic Republic
of Iran—hide information, obfuscate details, and deny answers to Congress and
the American people… They know this isn’t a sustainable strategy, however, and
I trust they will start to take their professional, and moral, obligations
seriously.”
However, another Congressional source told the Free Beacon
that the Obama administration would likely continue the stonewalling process
for as long as possible because there really was no other alternative. The
reality behind what happened between the Obama team and Iran is so disgusting
that they cannot allow the public to hear the truth before the election.
“Every Obama administration official and department
involved in the Iran Deal appear to be running for cover,” the source told the WFB.
“Like we feared, the [Iran deal] is turning out to be a disaster
and Iran is emboldened in its aggression. Evidently Attorney General
Lynch and the Department of Justice have decided ‘refusal to cooperate’ is
their best strategy. But this is dangerous and ultimately won’t protect
them from anything.”
Just to recap, the Obama administration is mired in a
situation that could end up proving to have been completely illegal (paying ransom to a terrorist
supporting state in an effort to free captives, among other
problems), and when
Congress does their job and investigates… the chief law enforcement officer in
the country, the Attorney General, takes measures to protect the culprits.
Loretta Lynch is supposed to be rooting out criminal behavior and ensuring that
our justice system does its job, instead she’s defending the lawbreakers and
ensuring that our legal system cannot operate properly. Sadly, such is life in
the Obama era.
http://constitution.com/shock-news-attorney-general-loretta-lynch-pleads-fifth-iran-payoff/
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