From the WSJ:
‘Revolutionary Guard commanders boasted at the time that the Americans had succumbed to Iranian pressure. “Taking this much money back was in return for the release of the American spies,” said Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi, commander of the Guard’s Basij militia, on state media.”
The idea that Republican members of the House and Senate intelligence committees did not know what Naghdi said on Iranian television in January is preposterous.
Every last member of those committees should be forced to acknowledge they knew about the payment or admit their gross incompetence.