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  • 2016-11-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Hillary Clinton 'Accidentally' Gave ISIS $400 Million (en)
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  • In August 2016 amid a contentious election cycle, the Obama administration made a payment to Iran of $400 million to resolve a long-outstanding legal claim being pursued through the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. The payment precipitated a rash of controversy, with supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accusing the White House of having paid a ransom for the release of hostages. The controversy prompted some disreputable web sites to interpret the events as meaning that former secretary of state and current Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had accidentally paid the $400 million to the terrorist group ISIS: That the money was given to Iran in exchange for the release of four Americans imprisoned in that country is a subjective argument many have made, but as we have previously noted, the White House has maintained it is a false one: We further explained the payment on 18 August 2016: Although Hillary Clinton may have played some part in the long-running dispute between the U.S. and Iran that was being adjudicated at the Claims Tribunal while she was Secretary of State, she had nothing to do with any payment made to Iran in August 2016, as she had left the State Department well over three years earlier. Hillary Clinton didn't — and had no power to — give $400 million to Iran or ISIS, accidentally or otherwise. The notion that the White House admitted Clinton accidentally gave ISIS the money seems to come from a statement made by White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on 3 August 2016 — but Earnest did not actually say anything about ISIS, didn't reference Hillary Clinton, and certainly didn't claim the money was paid accidentally. Earnest instead maintained the money was used mostly to shore up Iran's economic weaknesses: (en)
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