House Republicans Picked a Perfectly Terrible Panel to Complain About the Iran Deal

After the New York Times Magazine published a controversial profile of Ben Rhodes, the White House's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, conservatives exploded in outrage over the article's portrayal of Rhodes manipulating the media to secure passage of the Iran nuclear deal. Republican senators have called for Rhodes to resign, and the House Oversight Committee even held a hearing on Tuesday to look into "White House Narratives on the Iran Nuclear Deal."

But, as our David Corn noted yesterday, one of the three witnesses has plenty of experience in planting "false narratives:" John Hannah, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who played a key role in promoting the flawed intelligence behind the invasion of Iraq. Corn wrote that "Hannah was one of the architects of the speech then-Secretary of State Colin Powell gave to the United Nations in February 2003 that was designed to pave the way to war." And he's not the only one who noticed...
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