Hat tip to Legal InsurrectionObama is ending his presidency not only with a flurry of commutations, but also with appointments to various commissions and governmental entities.
One of those entities is the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, to which Obama just appointed Ben Rhodes. The Jerusalem Post reports:
"With only three days left in office, US President Barack Obama announced several key administration posts on Wednesday, including the placement of Benjamin Rhodes, one of his top foreign policy advisers, on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
The council is comprised of 55 members appointed by the president. Its primary task is to fund-raise for the nation's Holocaust Museum and its various projects….
Rhodes, 40, is Jewish. He has worked with Obama since 2007."
Who is Ben Rhodes?
He's the Obama communications operative who admitted to deceiving the American public and manipulating the media in support of the Iran Nuclear Deal. (He also ran the Benghazi disinformation campaign.)
David Gerstman wrote a devastating takedown of the deal and Rhode's deception last May, Grand Deception: How Obama and Ben Rhodes Lied Us Into the Iran nuke deal.
| Ben Rhodes is evil. What's being done is that Champ is moving people into "senior executive service" positions -- supposed to be apolitical, they're at the top of the civil service food-chain and even harder to get rid of than your average GS-11. They get a cushy sinecure where they don't do anything useful, they can't be fired, and they meddle as they please. And you just try getting rid of the Holocaust Museum Commission or whatever. |