Posted on 05/10/2016 7:21:02 PM PDT by Kaslin
In case you missed it over the weekend, National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes admitted in a lengthy New York Times Magazine profile that the Obama administration used the media to manipulate and lie to the American people about the nuclear deal with Iran. Here is one of the lies pushed by the administration, which David Reaboi highlighted yesterday at The Federalist.
First, the lies and the denials about the negotiations. It took months before a few dogged journalists started to ask questions about the talks Obama officials were engaged in with Ahmadinejad’s regime. In February 2013, then-State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland flatly denied “direct, secret bilateral talks with Iran.” Republicans on Capitol Hill were nervous about the rumors, but the media was willing to accept the State Department’s denial. The secret negotiations with Iran also alarmed America’s allies in Jerusalem, who had also been kept in the dark about their closest ally’s clandestine meetings with their most potent adversary.
Nuland’s successor, Jen Psaki, would later admit that, as Fox’s James Rosen reported, “the meetings stretched back to 2011.”
After the administration was caught lying, thanks to Rhodes, the State Department deleted video footage in the archives of the exchange Reaboi discusses. Fox News James Rosen reported on the deletion last night.
Rosen: Obama Administration Extensively Deceived Public, Media to Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
As Rosen notes, the State Department is working on restoring the footage.
UPDATE: The State Department is arguing the footage of the exact statement under scrutiny went missing because of a "glitch."
State Dept.: Missing Video Potentially Showing Iran Deal Deception Was a ‘Glitch’
Cover Up be a big problem when a Republican does it.
If you like your nukes, you can keep your nukes.
No biggie - it’s his MO.
A “glitch”, of course. That’s where Hillary’s emails went, too. What a crazy coincidence! They sure do seem to have a lot of glitches in that town, don’t they?
And Congress is Allowing ALL OF IT, Way to Go Paul Ryan!!
Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!
Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR
No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!
CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
And here is what the OFFICIAL DEMONRAT PUBLICATIONS SAY:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04tue4.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/04/house_arrest.html
BINGO. By taking impeachment off the table Ryan and the rhinos have allowed this to happen.
Must be the same glitch that eats Hillary’s emails.
One may recall that when Obama came into office, he was demanding to have a BlackBerry, being the modern guy he is.
There was a big kerfuffle as civil servants/security were concerned about how to secure then eMail only like devices. It was all new then. But so glamorous as it was Barry (one of “us”).
So here we are - can’t find Hillary’s emails or her IT manager’s, losing video clips to glitches and so on and so on.
Hell, the Sec of State couldn’t even get a decent phone line from Benghazi (sarc)!
Everything is a glitch.
IRS hard drive destruction a glitch
Hillary email glitch
Benghazi glitch
Shovel ready glitch
Obamacare glitch.
Birth certificate administrator killed in plane crash glitch
Obama’s “Born in Kenya” biography glitch
The land of Glitch—It’s the same place the “18 minute gap” went in the Watergate tapes.
Why are you blaming Paul Ryan? That all happened when John Boehner was in charge
Yes I do remember that.
If our guys had any balls hed have been impeached and removed by now. Along with Biden and Boner and the rest of his warped twisted cabinet.
Fast and Furious - Botched. GLITCH.
Did Hillary meet with representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran in December 2012, following a trip to Dublin, around the time of her flu and brain surgery?
Bill will have to have a a whole lot more affairs to even try to come close to how many lies Obama has told.
We can put HIS picture in the dictionary, next to the word: ‘glitch’.
To be fair, though... THIS ‘glitch’ was helped along by the NEA and the MSM, without whose help he may not have been ‘elected’
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