Posted on 02/05/2022 7:55:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Biden’s administration was asked for evidence to back up dramatic claims about national security developments this past week, it demurred with a simple rejoinder: You’ll have to trust us on that.
No, they would not reveal what led them to say they knew that Russia was plotting a false flag operation as a pretext to invade Ukraine. No, they would not explain their confidence that civilian casualties were caused by a suicide bombing rather than U.S. special forces during a raid in Syria.
The administration’s response took a particularly caustic turn as spokespeople suggested that reporters were buying into foreign propaganda by even asking such questions.
The lack of transparency strained already depleted reserves of credibility in Washington, a critical resource diminished over the decades by instances of lies, falsehoods and mistakes on everything from extramarital affairs to the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
“This administration has made statements in the past that have not proven accurate,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. “Kabul wasn’t secure. The drone strike did kill civilians. The press is doing its job when it asks, ‘How do you know that?’”
The latest scrutiny seemed to have struck a nerve, resulting in barbed interactions with White House press secretary Jen Psaki and State Department spokesman Ned Price that stood out even amid the typically contentious relationship between the government and the press.
Jamieson described the responses, which included insinuations that reporters were being disloyal, as “completely inappropriate.”
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Say what?
“...stood out even amid the typically contentious relationship between the government and the press.”
Trust us?! I don’t think so!!!
Trust NOTHING from this den of thieves and liars.
Biden’s and his administration prove why one should never trust a democrat unless your pro communism.
When someone says: "Trust Me" - that is when I stop trusting them -
if I already haven't.
“Trust us” in political speak really means “F*** YOU!”
People I trust less than the Democrats ….
…
… well that’s the whole list.
Biden on one side and Putin on the other and I’m stuck between the two azz holes.
Trust the same folks who had evidence President Trump colluded with the Russians and must be impeached but never produced any evidence?
Our media fellated Obama for eight years. They’d do the same for Brandon if he could get it up.
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