Well, here's your confirmation:
The era of the Most Equal Comrade's nomenklatura's grip on post-America's throat has been, from a journalistic standpoint, one long eating of the homework by the dog.While the White House scrambles to contain the damage caused by one of President Obama's closest aides -- who boasted of manipulating social media, journalists and friendly interest groups to sell the Iran nuclear deal -- it now is facing new questions about a portion of missing tape in which a State Department official acknowledges misleading the press on the Iran negotiations.Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes' comments to The New York Times Magazine have sparked outrage in Washington's political and policy circles, especially re-igniting the debate over whether the White House oversold the deal to curb Iran's nuclear program.Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., issued a scathing statement Monday saying the article “exposed how the White House manipulated and, in some cases, manufactured facts to sell the reckless Iran nuclear deal to the American people as a prelude to large-scale disengagement from the Middle East.”Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse took to the Senate floor Monday to lambaste the “spin.”Now, the administration is facing further questions over a block of missing tape from a 2013 State Department briefing where top spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked by Fox News about an earlier claim that no direct, secret talks were underway between the U.S. and Iran – when, in fact, they were.In that exchange, Psaki seemed to acknowledge misleading the press, saying: “There are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. This is a good example of that.”The Psaki comments, and prior department remarks, would appear to conflict with a fresh claim by Rhodes that they “confirmed publicly” there were “discreet channels of communication established with Iran in 2012.”That Psaki exchange, however, was missing from the department’s official website and its YouTube channel. The department now says it cannot explain the deletion and is working to restore the material.
Just what would be expected to come from a government of lawyers, not men, in our efforts to make war and/or peace, we tear ourselves apart.
ReplyDeleteIf we hadn't had an America-hater as president and a State department led by and full of America-haters, we would have had an Iran policy based on the understanding that it is our mortal enemy
ReplyDeleteSame thing will happen again to the hawks when they try to wage war.
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ReplyDeletePost-America missed its chance during the uprising surrounding Iran's 2009 rigged elections. Alas, no we know why the Most Equal Comrade wasn't interested in supporting the groundswell of opposition.
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ReplyDeleteA mule that had grown fat and wanton on too great an allowance of corn was one day jumping and kicking about. At length, cocking up her tail, she exclaimed, "My mother was a racer, and I am quite as good as ever she was." But being soon exhausted with her galloping and frisking, she remembered all at once that her father was but an ass.
Every truth has two sides. It is well to look at both before we commit ourselves to either.--Aesop
Oh, so Iran since 1979 is an enlightened regime that puts the human rights of its citizens first and has never sponsored terrorism and isn't working on a nuclear-missile program.
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