“People were transferred, efforts to create a RICO prosecution were not supported, extraditions and so forth.”Īnd all of it, in an effort to “not anger” the Iranian regime so they would back away from the nuclear negotiations. “Over the eight years of the Obama administration, you had potentially dozens of criminal cases that languished,” Meyer told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream.
government officials in charge of investigating and prosecuting Hezbollah drug-trafficking networks, are so devastating. It’s a big deal because Politico’s allegations, sourced to the U.S. Following the Politico story, NBC, ABC, and CBS devoted not a single second of air time to the story. Neither would any of the major television networks, except of course for Fox News. I don’t mean to suggest that journalism has died on the left just to say the obvious: That it has become so politicized that the Washington Post, for example, will expend enormous effort to unearth a potential sex scandal against conservative Republican Roy Moore, but barely breathes a word about the Politico story that could involve actual obstruction of justice by the Obama White House and Department of Justice. The Politico story, written by Josh Meyer and staff reporters, is a real blockbuster of the kind that scarcely appears any longer in left-wing media.
There is boundless irony and hypocrisy in how much people who love to sneer at “echo chambers” live entirely inside a perpetual right wing echo chamber of non-fact based anti Iran Deal propaganda. So it was amusing to watch Ben Rhodes attempt to tar the left-wing Politico webzine of living inside a “perpetual right wing echo chamber” because they exposed the Obama administration efforts to quash a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation into Hezbollah cocaine smuggling into the United States known as Project Cassandra. “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns.
He called them, “the echo chamber,” and scarcely disguised his contempt for the media and their think tank cronies in his revealing May 2016 interview. As Rhodes himself told the New York Times magazine, “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.” They were part of the White House inner circle. Former Obama advisor Ben Rhodes placed himself front and center in pitching the failed Iran deal to a willing national media, which he knew was comprised of friends and cohorts more than willing to ingest his spin and spit it out to their audiences.
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