Deputy National Security Advisor and speechwriter Ben Rhodes recently boasted to the New York Times about how smart he and the Obama administration were in deceiving the public on the Iran nuclear deal. All of this braggadocio landed Rhodes a seat in front of a congressional committee on Monday, where the controversial aide chose not to speak.
After congressional Republicans called his bluff, President Obama’s deputy national security adviser refused Tuesday to testify to Congress about whether he misled the public in pushing the Iran nuclear deal, claiming executive privilege.
Ben Rhodes, a speechwriter who has become a top foreign policy adviser for Mr. Obama, landed in hot water after an interview with The New York Times in which he disparaged reporters as ignorant and easily manipulated and seemed to suggest that the administration relied on a false narrative to help sell the Iran deal.
But when congressional Republicans asked him to explain himself, the White House refused, saying it would intrude on the “separation of powers” of the federal government.
The excuse left Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee nonplussed.
“You have plenty of time, Mr. Rhodes, to go out and talk to all the media friends and talk to the echo chamber that you brag about in The New York Times, but when it comes time to actually answer hard questions under oath, you decide not to do it,” said committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, who started the hearing without Mr. Rhodes.
W. Neil Eggleston, the White House’s top attorney, explained in a letter Monday that Mr. Rhodes wouldn’t be appearing because it would infringe on Mr. Obama’s ability to control the government’s executive branch.
It is likely that if Hillary Clinton is elected as Barack Obama’s successor, the American public can expect another 4-8 years of secrecy and lies. Remember when the president promised that his would be the most transparent administration in history? I don’t think he does either.
Source: Washington Times
Nothing new here for three most transparent (transgender) administration in history.
Like fast and furious. The court ruled he cannot do this…
hay rhodes all you have to do is but all the info on paper and send it to every news outlet in the world that will get them to let you testify
all you have to do is read what the andromedans and the pleiadians and the glatlace federation of light have to say about this their will be people that are going to be arrested and put on trial all before september of this year that means obummer, billery,and all of the rest of the people that have gone along with obummer
All trhe way with the Donald J. Trump
If this administration cannot lie, they have nothing to say. Amazing.
I didn’t k now that we had a congress, we voted a majorty (Republicans) in both houses and they have amounted to nothing.
How can that happen?