At Monday’s White House press briefing, Kevin Corke of Fox News asked Press Secretary Josh Earnest: “Can you state categorically that no senior official in this administration has ever lied publicly about any aspect of the Iran nuclear deal?”
The answer: “No Kevin.”
Four or five seconds of silence followed. Then Earnest spent two minutes building his own catalog of lies and half-truths about the agreement, while claiming that critics of the deal are the ones who have “lied.”
If such an admission on such an important matter had occurred during any other administration — even previous Democratic ones — it would lead the Big Three network newscasts and would be morning show fodder for the next several days. The fact that Earnest subsequently backtracked when thrown a lifeline wouldn’t change that.
The remainder of Earnest’s “answer” was an attempt to defend the nebulous Iran “deal” — an “agreement” which is not legally binding, and which has accomplished little or nothing in the way of substantive deterrence of Iran’s attempt to become a nuclear power:
Source: Fox News, May 9, 2016
