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Shorter Wendy Sherman to Senate: It’s none of your business!

Via CNS News:

It is both “appropriate” and in the U.S. national security interest for side agreements between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to remain secret, the State Department’s top nuclear negotiator told senators on Wednesday.

Undersecretary of state Wendy Sherman tussled with Senator David Vitter (R-La.) during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as he asked her repeatedly if she thought it appropriate that she – who does not get to vote on the deal – has seen the side agreements, while lawmakers who do get to vote will not….

She did not explain why she had herself been able see the documents, given their professed confidentiality.

“You’ve read those two agreements?” Vitter asked Sherman.

“I have read those two ‘safeguards confidential’ arrangements, yes.”

“Okay. When do I get to read them?” Vitter asked.

“Well, you won’t sir, any more than any other country will get to read the safeguards confidential protocols between the United States and the IAEA,” Sherman said….

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  1. strider says:

    We’re broke and led by people who were dope soaked during their formative years leaving us without much to hear, see or say about anything at present.

  2. Alain41 says:

    Should be easy for all of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, to say if we can’t see everything related to what we are voting on, we will vote against automatically. Of course when your standard is, you have to pass it to find out what’s in it, this situation is a logical outcome. Legacy media letting Pelosi get away with that healthcare vote statement, set this stage.

    Ms. Sherman has been President of Emily’s List, first President of the Fannie Mae Foundation (subsidiary of Fannie Mae), and was a coordinator/negotiator for Bill Clinton on N. Korea nuke deal. Picking past negotiating failures to negotiate Iran deal makes sense if failure is your objective.

  3. Piquerish says:

    I wouldn’t trust a secret side deal involving criminal liberals as far I could spit a rat.

  4. idaho_karen says:

    Kerry and she should be escorted directly to jail unless they are forthcoming.. The American People ought to know when we are being tied to in these ‘secret side agreements’.

  5. Maynard says:

    Taranto made an interesting analogy in today’s column. This is in reference to Obama’s disgusting assertion that the Republican representatives are making “common cause” with the genocidal maniacs in Iran.

    But there is an even more basic objection to Obama’s statement. Assume for the sake of argument that the “Iranian hard-liners” and the Republicans really do want an all-out military confrontation. Now, consider an example from history when such a result actually obtained. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. On Dec. 8, Congress declared war on Japan. Would it make any sense to say that the Japanese and the U.S. Congress had made “common cause”?

    Taranto’s column, “Full Orwell”, opens with the speculation, “Was that the worst speech ever delivered by a U.S. president?” The full article is worth reading if you can reach it.

    Obama is more and more revealing himself to be truly evil. And, worst of all, he is using the bully pulpit of the White House to make evil not only acceptable, but cool as well.

  6. Alain41 says:

    E. Erickson column reminds that administration ‘accidentally’ leaked classified info. on Israel ‘ s nuclear program. But now it must ensure confidentiality. Ha!

  7. Alain41 says:

    Concerning national security and lies; today is 70th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing and new info. has come out. Nagasaki was a secondary target selected because of cloud cover but it also was not on the target list until late July 1945 when it replaced Kyoto. It was thought that Kyoto was taken off the target list because of art historian Langdon Warner and Japan has a couple of statues to Warner because of that. But now it’s come out that Secy of War, Henry Stimson, was responsible for putting Nagasaki on and taking Kyoto off. Kyoto was/is a very important city for Japanese culture and it’s thought that Stimson wanted to protect it in part because he was involved with the decision to intern Japanese-Americans.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33755182

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