Obama Admin Hiding Secret Hostage Docs Signed With Iranian Intel Officials

Source: Washington Free Beacon | October 5, 2016 | Adam Kredo

Obama admin sequesters key docs relating to secret deals

Key documents relating to the Obama administration’s secret negotiations with Iran, including a $1.7 billion cash payment, are being stored at a highly secure site on Capitol Hill, preventing the public and many in Congress from accessing them, according to multiple sources who described the situation to the Washington Free Beacon.

The documents are not technically classified but are being kept in a “secure reading space” where the majority of congressional officials cannot access them. Those cleared are forced to relinquish their cellular devices and are barred from taking notes, undermining the ability of staffers to brief their lawmakers on the contents, according to the sources.

Sources further disclosed that joint U.S.-Iranian signatures across the three documents add up to a package deal between Washington and Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, the country’s internal spy agency. Sources familiar with a closed-door January briefing by senior Obama administration officials told the Free Beacon they were informed the United States negotiated with “the Iranian intelligence apparatus.”

The terms of the arrangement—which was signed by Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk—had Iran releasing several U.S. hostages and obligated Washington to pay Tehran $1.7 billion in cash, removed international sanctions on a key financial node of Iran’s ballistic missile program, and dropped charges against 21 Iranian operatives linked to terrorism.

“There are three of them [agreements], and one specifically relates to the $1.7 billion [payment] and is a commitment of the U.S. to make arrangements to transfer the money,” said one congressional official familiar with the agreements.

A second document “lays out the commitments regarding Iranians that the U.S. was going to pardon, as well as the release of [imprisoned] Americans,” the source explained.

A third document “relates to assurances” the United States would allow international sanctions to be dropped on Iran’s Bank Sepah, a bank the Treasury Department described in 2007 as the “linchpin of Iran’s missile procurement.”

Multiple sources told the Free Beacon all three documents are part of one package deal. Each document was initially dated Jan. 16, but that was subsequently “crossed out and the 17th was scribbled in,” according one congressional source who spoke to the Free Beacon.

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