Updated May 7 Israeli private intelligence company Black Cube strongly denied Sunday that it was hired by aides to President Trump to spy on former Obama administration officials. The denial comes a day after the British newspaper The Observer reported that an Israeli intelligence firm had been hired by Trump’s aides to spy on former…
(JTA) — President Barack Obama has tapped Ben Rhodes, a White House speechwriter and proponent of the Iranian nuclear agreement, to serve on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Obama said Tuesday that he had chosen Rhodes, currently the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, to serve on the council, which Congress established in 1980 to…
America’s political polarization affects us all in such strange and profound ways that sometimes we don’t even know it’s there. We’re all familiar with those debates that never go anywhere because the two sides are arguing from different sets of facts. Climate change, for example. Sometimes, though, we’re living in solitudes so utterly separate that…
The White House confirmed on Monday that Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, would not testify at a House oversight panel on Iran on Tuesday. The panel had asked Rhodes to appear after a New York Times article had suggested that he had manipulated the public debate over the Iran deal.
It’s hard to know whose face was more red — White House foreign policy wunderkind Ben Rhodes or Jake Silverstein, the editor of The New York Times Magazine — in the days following publication of the magazine’s embarrassingly frank May 8 profile of Rhodes. Rhodes, the president’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, is…
(JTA) — As narratives go, this one was pretty straightforward. The Obama administration wanted a nuclear deal with Iran. A lot of folks, including Republicans, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, didn’t want the deal President Barack Obama wanted. Obama won. But a profile in the Sunday New York…
The senior White House aide who spearheaded the push for the Iran nuclear deal is defending his handling of the issue after he suggested in a controversial New York Times magazine profile that he fooled key stakeholders into not questioning the pact. Ben Rhodes was forced to explain himself in a blog post for Medium…
President Obama’s itinerary for his upcoming visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank contains messages both direct and subtle. And one of the subtler messages seems to be embedded in his decision to visit the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit in Jerusalem. In case the intended message passes you by: When President Obama spoke to…
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