Arguing that the Obama administration is affected by the Iran payment, Charles Krauthammer said that the information as well as how it came to light are both humiliating:
It affects the administration in two ways. Number one: the dribbling out of the information. Yes, they said the payment was made at the time, but the idea that it was on airplanes that were unmarked and they were holding it until the hostages were released, and that it was done in cash and foreign currency — all of that indicates something quite humiliating if nothing else, and it is obvious that the administration did not want anybody to know. That was a concealment operation, and it came out.
The second is: what are we doing, bargaining in this way with a terror country? When we sat down originally in the nuclear negotiations, we should have had an un-negotiable demand on the table: we are not going to talk to you about anything like relieving sanctions until there are no hostages here. And that is the crux of the issue.
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