It’s not odd at all. There’s nothing odd about it. It is a perfectly ordinary facilitation of criminal activity.

Yeah, for fucks’ sake. This was a ransom. We paid $400M up front in cash for a hostage ransom. That’s why people are shitting on Obama.

I still think it’s shady that we gave $400m in untraceable cash to a regime that funds a lot of really really bad people...as opposed to the somewhat-bad groups we’re funding.