UNBELIEVABLE – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:   Point by point, undoubtedly under Obama's direction, we're beginning to pull back our demands on Iran in the nuclear talks, talks that are scheduled to wrap up in 13 days.  From AP: 

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that a full accounting of Iran’s possible past atomic weapons research is not necessarily critical to reaching a nuclear deal with Tehran. His comments came amid concerns the Obama administration is backing down on demands that Iran resolve concerns about previous work as part of an agreement that would curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

Kerry said the US and its negotiating partners are “not fixated” on the issue of so-called “possible military dimensions” because they already have a complete picture of Iran’s past activities. He said they are more concerned that those activities have stopped and about what Iran might do in the future. Negotiators are concentrating their efforts on that as they race to meet a June 30 deadline to reach a deal, Kerry said.

“The possible military dimensions, frankly, gets distorted a little bit in some of the discussions in that we’re not fixated on Iran specifically accounting for what they did at one point in time or another,” he told reporters at the State Department by video link from his home in Boston, where he is recovering from surgery on a broken leg.

COMMENT:  What concession comes next, in order to have an agreement to put on Obama's desk?  We are demanding exhaustive inspections, but Iran has already turned them down.  We await our cave-in on that point.

If the agreement is as bad as we fear, we can expect an unprecedented smear campaign against those who oppose it, including charges of disloyalty to the United States.  This is going to be very ugly.  I wonder if Hillary will have an opinion. 

June 17,  2015