Thursday, 12 May 2016

Deception and the Iran deal: Did the Obama administration mislead America, or did the Rhodes profile? (Suzanne Maloney, Brookings)

Deputy U.S. National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes participates in the Washington Ideas Forum in Washington, September 30, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Even before the print version was released, Sunday’sNew York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, provoked a torrent of commentary. The article’s smarmy tone and the unseemly—though hardly unusual—hubris revealed by its subject have generated indignation and a healthy dose of humor from The Washington Post, its Monkey Cage blog, Foreign Policy, The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, and seemingly half the Washingtonians on Twitter.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/05/11-ben-rhodes-iran-deal-narrative-maloney

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