Ben Rhodes Proves the National Security Council Needs to Be Reformed
It at times circumvents the State Department as well as even the Department of Defense.
Heritage Foundation Helle Dale, Bio and Archives--May 25, 2016
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Recent remarks by Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes to the New York Times shows us that the National Security Council (NSC) as an institution is urgently in need of an overhaul.
Rhodes, who handles the president’s strategic communications, takes pride in how he sold the Iran nuclear deal to the American press.
In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this,’ he said. ‘We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.’ He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal. ‘We drove them crazy,’ he said of the deal’s opponents.”Read more...
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