YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK – AT 7:40 A.M. ET: The incompetence, the cynicism, the deception. All rolled into one package. From the Washington Free Beacon:
The State Department admitted on Monday that it misled reporters about a recent delegation of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and allies who were hosted for a meeting with officials at Foggy Bottom.
State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki claimed last week that the controversial delegation of key Brotherhood leaders and allies had been “organized and funded by Georgetown University.”
However, the university denied this is the case when reached by the Washington Free Beacon.
Psaki clarified her original comments made on Jan. 29 during a Monday meeting with reporters.
The meeting between the Brotherhood allies and the State Department sparked controversy in Washington and Cairo, where Egyptian government officials expressed anger at the Obama administration for hosting representatives of a group they consider to be terrorists.
The State Department meeting was attended by a deputy assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor and other State Department officials.
While Psaki continued to defend the decision to host the Brotherhood allies at the State Department, she clarified that Georgetown actually had nothing to do with the delegation.
COMMENT: Well, I guess it's good to get the facts straight. But, bottom line, we have to wonder why our State Department would have a meeting with a group that is anti-American, anti-woman, and anti-Semitic. Oh, wait, President Obama seems to have a soft spot for the Brotherhood. Maybe that's the reason.
The government of Egypt is not a perfect government by any means, but it is one of the few that is taking on Islamic extremism, and actually calls it by its name. Obama shows contempt for the Egyptian government, just as he shows contempt for the Israeli government. But the Iranian government? Hey, no big problem. The Cuban government? Even a smaller problem.
Do you think we're being had?
February 3, 2015 |