The Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came to the defense of President Barack Obama on Sunday and argued that the United States’ ban on paying ransom money to terrorist groups actually made sense.
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In November, the Obama administration announced that it would review its hostage policy after ISIS released two videos showing the beheadings of U.S. citizens James Foley and Peter Kassig. However, administration officials told The New York Times that they were not considering eliminating the ban on paying ransoms.
