What does it say when the Attorney General of the United States sends one of her assistants before congress to let them know she’s not going to comment about the administration’s attempts to secretly send $1.7 BILLION dollars to Iran? Isn’t Loretta Lynch supposed to be ensuring that justice prevails?
The Washington Free Beacon reports – Attorney General Loretta Lynch is declining to comply with an investigation by leading members of Congress about the Obama administration’s secret efforts to send Iran $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year, prompting accusations that Lynch has “pleaded the Fifth” Amendment to avoid incriminating herself over these payments, according to lawmakers and communications exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) initially presented Lynch in October with a series of questions about how the cash payment to Iran was approved and delivered.
In an Oct. 24 response,
Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik responded on Lynch’s behalf,
refusing to answer the questions and informing the lawmakers that they
are barred from publicly disclosing any details about the cash payment,
which was bound up in a ransom deal aimed at freeing several American
hostages from Iran.
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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