Ben Rhodes Obama's Designated Liar

Ben Rhodes, The White House's Designated Liar

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Politics: Despite terrorism risks, the White House has doubled down to admit Syrian refugees to the U.S., with Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes assuring us of "robust vetting procedures." It's not his first fiction.

The hard facts are as follows: FBI director James Comey has soberly warned there are no means for vetting potential terrorists among the 10,000 Syrian refugees being admitted to the U.S.

This is urgent because Islamic State warns it has seeded Syria's refugees with terrorists, and in Paris last week the terrorists showed they meant it.

This means nothing to the deputy national security advisor for strategic communications and speechwriting, who characterizes the refugees as just "women and children."

It's not the first time that Rhodes has cooked up fiction. A literary hipster with a master's in fiction from New York University, Rhodes has plied his creative writing skills in the Obama administration to fawning press reports. And his history doesn't assure.

In 2012, Rhodes coordinated the infamous talking points that blamed the 9/11 Benghazi terror attack on a mob response to a YouTube clip. The dishonest claims followed Rhodes' own policy advice for the administration to overthrow the Gadhafi regime.

Rhodes also wrote President Obama's infamous 2009 Cairo "apology" speech to the Islamic world. It led to a perception of weakness and the violent Arab Spring — with Rhodes advising Obama to withdraw support from longtime ally President Hosni Mubarak.

Rhodes also was an early proponent of rapprochement with Iran and launched the White House's #TheIranDeal Twitter propaganda site.

He's spread the false line on his Twitter site that Russia isn't bombing Islamic State targets. The hard fact remains that Russia lost a jetliner to an ISIS terror attack on Oct. 31. But Russia would refrain from bombing it?

Now Rhodes would have us believe — without a scintilla of evidence in favor and much to contradict it — that the U.S. is vetting the Syrian refugees it's letting in.

Sorry, Ben, but the credibility is gone.

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