{"id":67268,"date":"2016-08-03T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67268"},"modified":"2016-08-03T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:18:58","slug":"can-you-say-ransome-sure-i-knew-you-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67268","title":{"rendered":"Can You Say, &#8220;Ransom?&#8221;  Sure.  I Knew You Could."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And apparently, so can the current Administration.\u00a0 From the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wall Street Journal<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-sent-cash-to-iran-as-americans-were-freed-1470181874\"><em>U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Predictably, the current\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>gang of naive tools in DC<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration says that there was no &#8220;quid pro quo&#8221; involved.\u00a0 It was merely a &#8220;coincidence&#8221; that $400M worth of cash procured by the US government from European central banks was airlifted in an unmarked cargo plane to Tehran at the same time 4 Americans held hostage by Iran were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The article linked above gives more details.\u00a0 IMO you should read it.\u00a0 Prepare to get angry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I <em>really<\/em> wish the current Administration would quit insulting our\u00a0 intelligence by peeing on our legs and claiming it&#8217;s raining.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t speak for others &#8211; but I can certainly tell the difference between the two, thanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"text-align: left;\">This wasn&#8217;t rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And apparently, so can the current Administration.\u00a0 From the Wall Street Journal: U.S. Sent Cash to &hellip; <a title=\"Can You Say, &#8220;Ransom?&#8221;  Sure.  I Knew You Could.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67268\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can You Say, &#8220;Ransom?&#8221;  Sure.  I Knew You Could.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,9,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-foreign-policy","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}