Attn. White House! Still going to insist the payment to Iran wasn't a ransom?

Doug P. | 6:22 PM on August 17, 2016

Another big WSJ scoop on Iran, undermining WH claims that the $400M paid off to Iran asn't connected to the release https://t.co/njGyjE4BfH

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) August 17, 2016

The White House continues to insist that a $400 million payment to Iran as four prisoners were released from custody wasn’t a ransom, but evidence to the contrary continues to pile up:

$400 million cash payment to Iran was timed precisely to the U.S. prisoner release. https://t.co/yVD1jHNQel

— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) August 17, 2016

new @WSJ piece on the $400 million to Iran with this detail: https://t.co/IdIsyiIyds pic.twitter.com/hp68gFGXs4

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) August 17, 2016

That sure sounds like a ransom.

This is how ransoms work: https://t.co/h90wyeI9zj

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 17, 2016

Pretty much.

So the $ was conditioned on the prisoner release but purportedly unrelated to it? Bizarre https://t.co/7eQXPQG1pw

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) August 17, 2016

This was a ransom – paid to world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, no less. Time for WH to drop charade. https://t.co/GYGks1vZ7d

— Michael C. Short (@michaelcshort) August 17, 2016