Posted on 08/05/2015 11:26:31 AM PDT by Nachum
The only Obama administration official to view confidential "side deals" between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) admitted Wednesday she and her team have only seen rough drafts.
"I didn't see the final documents. I saw the provisional documents, as did my experts," said Wendy Sherman, a lead U.S. negotiator for the deal, at a Senate Banking Committee hearing.
Sherman, undersecretary of State for political affairs, said she was only allowed to see the confidential deals "in the middle of the negotiation" when the IAEA "wanted to go over with some of our experts the technical details."
She maintained the deals — which focus on with Iran's prior work on a bomb and access to Iran's Parchin military site — are still confidential and can't be submitted to Congress.
Sherman said the U.S. did not protest to the confidentiality of the agreements, despite the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act demanding all related agreements, because the administration wanted the IAEA to respect the confidentiality of their agreements with the U.S.
"We want to protect U.S. confidentiality ... this is a safeguards protocol. The IAEA protects our confidential understandings ... between the United States and the IAEA," she said.
However, later in the hearing, she walked back her comments about not seeing the final arrangements.
"I was shown documents that I believed to be the final documents, but whether there were any further discussions..." she added before being cut off by another question by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Later, she said responded, "I have" when asked whether she saw the final versions of the deals.
She also argued they could not be submitted to Congress because the administration does not have the deals, and that the Senate had "every single document" the administration has.
Sherman emphasized she would brief Senators
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Then the legally-mandated 60-day review period hasn't started yet?
Didn’t we see this same scenario with Obamacare, explained in a single-line quote by Pelosi?
well, Congress, are you going to prevent O from getting America nuked...or not?
You can be damned sure BiBi did.
Traitor.
NOBOD seems to “know” what is in the ide deals, but they signed them anyway?
It simply can’t be anything good for America, when they are running from them as fast as they can.
Isn’t this the person that had briefed Kerry on the Side Deals, as he told Congress just last week?
jello
Obamatolla. Our very own.
Executive orders, morphed into Executive Actions, which are now Executive Immam Fatwahs.
Obama is consistent. You have to arm the Iranians with nukes to see what will be in the ballistic missile warheads they’ll be sending to Israel and to us. If you like your Jewish neighbors and your life, you can keep your Jewish neighbors and your life. Period.
Obama says he has confidence in the IAEA.
I understand Scott Ritter has agreed to do the inspections & keep quiet if provided with enough little girls.
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