Obama adviser Ben Rhodes recently admitted deceiving congress and the press about Obama’s controversial Iran Nuclear Deal.
Frank Gaffney took up the issue on Secure Freedom Radio with Fred Fleitz, the Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy.
Gaffney asked Fleitz for his analysis of the situation. Fleitz was direct in his response:
“I have three observations on it. First of all, it confirms something we already know, that the Obama administration repeatedly lied to the American people to sell a nuclear deal with Iran, specifically by creating this fiction that there was a new moderate government that presented a rare opportunity to negotiate and split the regime between the hard liners and the moderates, when you and I know that Rouhani was put on a slate of candidates by Supreme Leader Khamenei who led the country before he was elected in 2013 and still does. The second point is that the media was manipulated. According to this, these journalists just basically took whatever they were fed by the White House. I don’t completely agree with that, I think a lot of these journalists knew very well what they were promoting was false but they pushed it anyway. And the third point is that, and I find this really incredible, according to Samuels, he spoke to numerous officials in Washington and he said that Ben Rhodes is the most influential foreign policy maker in the United States besides Barack Obama, and that this man was running our foreign policy. We had secretaries of defense and state coming to the NSC, presenting their ideas to the NSC staff without being allowed to talk to the president and that these staffers were representing the president’s views, apparently without speaking to him.”
Gaffney noted that it has also come to light that three of Obama’s secretaries of defense have since made their frustrations with this process public. He also called it what it is – a national security fraud on the congress.
Fleitz agreed:
“Well this was national security fraud and it continues to be, the administration created these false narratives about the moderate regime in Iran, the concessions they made about Uranium enrichment which they said were harmless and various other issues. They lined up experts to perpetuate these false statements and they had a willing media that continued to push it and I think the Iranians just must have been thrilled to see that they have allies in the United States that were prepared to back these concessions and basically back anything the Iranian government wanted.”
Gaffney pointed out that as a result of the deal, Russia has delivered the S-300 air defense system to Iran, a development which complicates things not only for the United States but also for Israel.
Fleitz then asked the $64,000 question:
“The question is that if Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful, they agreed to this deal under which they’re not going to be pursuing nuclear weapons at least for ten years, why do they need this system?”
Why, indeed?
