Wild Bill delivering the "world will be united when aliens attack" meme.
Mockingbird Wapo reports Kerry engaged in private diplomacy before:
This is not the first time Kerry has interfered in U.S. diplomacy as a private citizen. In 1970, he flew to Paris and met with the North Vietnamese while they were in the midst of negotiating the Paris Peace accords with Kissinger. Kerry admitted then that his actions were “on the borderline of private individuals negotiating.” What he did last month was not on the borderline.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wheres-the-outrage-over-kerrys-secret-meetings-on-the-iran-deal/2018/05/11/0022ff18-546e-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?utm_term=.603a66dc946c
Video shows John Kissinger tearing Kerry a new asshole on this video (don't know how to embed):
"With all due respect to the congressman, he's a congressman and he's not secretary of state."
"We can't be negotiating with the our own congressman AND the nicaraguans at the same time"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7WtIaVMrXs
Kissinger Slams Kerry in 1985 for getting involved in negotiations with Nicaragua. Seems like he did this in 1970 as well with the Vietnamese during the Paris Peace accords
.http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/12/kissinger-slammed-kerry-for-negotiating-with-sandinistas-in-1985-video/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7WtIaVMrXs
Kerry messing shit up during the Paris Peace Accords with the Vietnamese in 1970. Guy is a serial offender. I wonder who's behalf he's negotiating on throughout these multiple shadow diplomacy engagements. Administrations come and go yet he continues to represent someone's interests.
https://americanpatriotsagainstkerry.wordpress.com/john-kerry-meeting-north-vietnamese-in-paris/
Let's dig.
$1.7B payment to Iran made entirely in cash.
Treasury Department spokeswoman Dawn Selak said in a statement late Tuesday that the cash payments were necessary because of the “effectiveness of U.S. and international sanctions,” which isolated Iran from the international finance system.
The Obama administration had claimed the events were separate, but recently acknowledged the cash was used as leverage until the Americans were allowed to leave Iran. The remaining $1.3 billion represented estimated interest on the Iranian cash the U.S. had held since the 1970s. The administration had previously declined to say if the interest was delivered to Iran in physical cash, as with the principal, or via a more regular banking mechanism.
Earlier Tuesday, officials from the State, Justice and Treasury departments held a closed-door briefing for congressional staff on the payments, according to a Capitol Hill aide familiar with the session. The officials said the $1.3 billion was paid in cash on Jan. 22 and Feb. 5. The aide was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity.
The money came from a little-known fund administered by the Treasury Department for settling litigation claims. The so-called Judgment Fund is taxpayer money Congress has permanently approved in the event it’s needed, allowing the president to bypass direct congressional approval to make a settlement. The U.S. previously paid out $278 million in Iran-related claims by using the fund in 1991.
Republicans have decried the payments as ransom, a charge the Obama administration has rejected. On Tuesday, a group of Republican senators announced their support for legislation that would bar payments from the Judgment Fund to Iran until Tehran pays the nearly $55.6 billion that U.S. courts have judged that it owes to American victims of Iranian terrorism.
“President Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal with Iran was sweetened with an illicit ransom payment and billions of dollars for the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the bill’s primary sponsor.
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also introduced a bill that prohibits cash payments to Iran and demands transparency on future settlements.
“Sending the world’s leading state sponsor of terror pallets of untraceable cash isn’t just terrible policy,” Royce said. “It’s incredibly reckless, and it only puts bigger targets on the backs of Americans… This cash bonanza has emboldened Iran’s radical regime, and undermined America’s national security.”
https://apnews.com/a665a7e486d24bdb982b9c470bb85fdf/us-payment-17-billion-iran-made-entirely-cash
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Cash went through Netherlands and Switzerland central banks:
''Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the
Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.''
The $400 million was paid in foreign currency because any transaction with Iran in U.S. dollars is illegal under U.S. law.
Sanctions also complicate Tehran’s access to global banks.