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Two key items today. While both are current top news story’s, they’re also the same old, same old about a couple of tiring old retreads who’ve always had problems when faced with the truth.

 

William Douglas reports @miamiherald.com, about the Senate review of the Iranian nuclear deal, writing that “Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who prides himself on being an honest broker, didn’t hide his disdain for the deal, telling [John] Kerry that “Not unlike a hotel guest that leaves only with a hotel bathrobe on his back, I believe you’ve been fleeced.”

 

In response at the time, “Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., the committee’s ranking Democrat, urged senators to leave their emotions out of the debate over the nuclear agreement, something that Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, initially endorsed.

 

“This should be done in a non-emotional way,” Risch concurred. “But that doesn’t mean we gotta leave common sense out of this, with all due respect.”

 

Risch then added in a far more polite manner, much the very same conclusion, saying that “anyone who believes this is a good deal really joins the ranks of the most naïve people on the face of the Earth. With all due respect, you guys have been bamboozled, and the American people are going to pay for it.”

 

However, while the elements of the deal itself appear to be the result of the administration’s naiveté and incompetence regarding negotiation, history indicates that there is likely something quite different in play today. Especially since Kerry himself has changed his position from only two years ago.   

 

Andrew Kugle @freebeacon.com via Drudge wrote yesterday that Kerry said to Senators that, “Let’s understand what was really on the table here. We set out to dismantle their ability to be able to build a nuclear weapon, and we’ve achieved that. Nobody has ever talked about actually dismantling their entire program, because when that was being talked about, that’s when they went from 163 centrifuges to 19,000.”

 

Nonetheless, while telling Senators that “Nobody has ever talked about actually dismantling their entire program," in 2013, while testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Kerry said the purpose of the sanctions against the rogue regime was to “help Iran dismantle its nuclear program.

 

“I don’t think any of us thought we were just imposing these sanctions for the sake of imposing them,” Kerry said then, and added, “We did because we knew that it would hopefully help Iran dismantle its nuclear program. That was the whole point of the regime.”

 

Thus, Kerry has proven once again, by his very own doing, that as has been the case throughout his political career, when the facts don’t go his way, he simply parts company with his own recorded history. 

 

Which brings us to todays’ update on another consistent fabricator, Bill’s Clinton's wife

 

FoxNews.com reports that, “The inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence community have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information by using a personal email account while secretary of state.

 

“According to The New York Times, an initial joint memorandum dated June 29 and sent to State Department Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy said that a review of Clinton's email archive contained "hundreds of potentially classified emails."

 

Therefore, although she’s repeatedly denied sending or receiving any classified information on her personal account, “the inspectors general wrote in a second memorandum last week that at least one of Clinton's emails that had been made public by the State Department contained sensitive information.” 

 

In that regard, “A Justice Department official confirmed to Fox News that they have "received a criminal referral." 

 

So, with almost a year and a half to go before the next presidential election, in addition to continual slippage in key polls, story’s concerning voter distrust and suspicions of disingenuousness continue to mount. And, now, criminal charges may be forthcoming. Which leads to the ongoing question: Mayor Bloomberg and Joe Biden, are you reading this?

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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