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Spinning and Spinning: The Ceiling Fan State Department
American Thinker ^ | June 6, 2016 | Michael Curtis

Posted on 06/06/2016 2:14:37 PM PDT by Kaslin

Have the Obama White House, the U.S. State Department, and part of the Washington media, press, and TV been engaged in a vast left-wing conspiracy to lie to and deceive the American public about the nuclear deal with Iran? One might think so, since no U.S. official or politician has been held responsible for the tangle of lies, attempt at censorship, and linguistic equivocations on the issue.

The great Machiavelli observed that "occasionally, words must veil the facts. But let this happen in a way that no one become aware of it." This seems to have been the objective of Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser in the White House. Finally, he revealed that in his role as spin doctor, he had deliberately misled the media, the Washington foreign policy establishment that he called "The Blob," and the country as a whole, over the nature of U.S. negotiations with Iran over the nuclear deal.

Rhodes co-opted part of the willing press corps and created what he called an "echo chamber" of journalists to convey a narrative that the U.S. had opened negotiations because a more moderate Iranian government had come into office after the seemingly moderate Hassan Rouhani was elected president of Iran in 2013.

But in fact, he lied. Secret negotiations had started more than two years earlier in 2011 in Muscat, Oman, when the extreme anti-American Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was still president of Iran. The talks were attended by then-senator John Kerry, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi with the knowledge, if not perhaps the approval, of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameinei.

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1 posted on 06/06/2016 2:14:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Liars all. Criminals most. The Feds embarrass them selves daily...maybe hourly.


2 posted on 06/06/2016 3:07:16 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: hal ogen; Kaslin

I still think that Iran has nuclear weapons already and that is why ValJar
ordered the agreement to proceed.

Am also suspicious that SoS Hillary’s uranium producing connections may have supplied some to Iran.


3 posted on 06/06/2016 10:14:55 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

4 posted on 06/07/2016 2:37:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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