Nails it.
Via Free Beacon:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) likened the Obama administration to a “drug cartel” on Fox News Sunday over its cash payment of $400 million to Iran in January that has been criticized as paying a ransom.
The cash payment was secretly organized by the administration and coincided with the release of four American hostages held by the Islamic Republic, according to the Wall Street Journal. While the White House claims it was part of a $1.7 billion settlement of a failed 1979 arms deal, critics have charged the payment, made in wooden pallets on an unmarked cargo plane, was effectively a ransom and a violation of bedrock American foreign policy.