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David Schweikert: Can I bring a slightly different discussion and weave it back into the things that have been said here? Mechanically, we…

On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
Can I bring a slightly different discussion and weave it back into the things that have been said here? Mechanically, we often have this conversation that if we had a more holistic understanding of the money that was going to bad actors around the world-- I am holding parts of the report here talking about 18 tons of cocaine being moved through north Africa and then, ultimately, through Lebanon, through the handlers of Hezbollah and a billion-plus dollars of cash. As you and I know, we have all sat through the terrorism financing testimony and others that Hezbollah doesn't move, ultimately, without their puppet masters in Iran instructing them on what to do. So take a step backwards. If I came to you and said I care about terrorism, I care about bad actors, I care about drug resources moving through the world, and I have the country of Iran whose proxies are functionally, today, the leading money launderers not only in the region, but probably the world, and then we look at what the administration has done--I understand many people support it for the nuclear arms side. I am fine. I am enraged that the openness and the misrepresentation and lying--just plain lying--to Congress on the timing, what happened, and how it was delivered--was it in cash, or was it in wires?…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Sep 21, 2016

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