In a new book Obama’s deputy national security adviser opens up about Pentagon interference in policy, Obama’s political calculations and his own ignorance of the Middle East, as As’ad AbuKhalil explains in this review. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium…Read more →
(ZHE Op-ed) — Someone finally asked Obama administration officials to own up to the rise of ISIS and arming jihadists in Syria. In a wide ranging interview titled “Confronting the Consequences of Obama’s Foreign Policy” The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan put the question to Ben Rhodes, who served as longtime deputy national security adviser at the White House under Obama and is now promoting his […]
(MEE) — Saudi Arabia gave White House aides jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in large suitcases, according to Ben Rhodes, former speechwriter and deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration. In his memoir The World As It Is, published on Tuesday, Rhodes recounts a trip to Saudi Arabia in June 2009 soon after Barack Obama […]
WASHINGTON – A new report in The Guardian has revealed that aides to President Donald Trump hired an Israeli-based private intelligence firm in order to “dig up” information that could be used to discredit key Obama-era officials who helped to negotiate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran nuclear deal.
21st Century Wire says…
Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of ordering a ‘wire tap’ at Trump Tower prior to the Presidential Election. Yes, a ‘wire tap’. Sounds pretty unsophisticated in this day and age as a means of SIGINT in the post Snowden revelation era where there are numerous more ‘covert’ methods available to agencies.
This is going to turn into all out war between President Trump and former POTUS Barack Obama.
FOX News host Sean Hannity took to twitter to call out President Obama and Obama officials Valerie Jarrett, Ben Rhodes, and former senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer on the Trump Tower wiretap scandal that is unfolding.
Breitbart reports on Hannity’s epic tweetstorm…
Former deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications for Barack Obama came to Obama’s defense in the latest chapter of the unfolding Trump – Obama wiretap saga.
Rhodes made the claim that…
“No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.”
Rhodes then said “only a liar” could make the case that Obama wire tapped Trump Tower ahead of the US election.
Official Washington is abuzz about the boasts of President Obama’s foreign policy speechwriter Ben Rhodes regarding his selling the Iran nuclear deal, a new club being wielded by the bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran neocons, explains James W Carden. By James W Carden A…Read more →
