NATIONAL REVIEW
Obama’s Cash Payment to Iran Was More Than a Ransom — It Broke Criminal Law
by Andrew C. McCarthy
August 6, 2016

…The hotly debated question was whether the payment, which the administration attributes to a 37-year-old arms deal, was actually a ransom paid for the release of American hostages Tehran had abducted. It is a waste of time to debate that point further…More worth examining is why the transaction took the bizarre form that it did. To cut to the chase, I believe it was to camouflage — unsuccessfully — the commission of felony law violations. READ MORE