John Kerry: up to his old tricks
Unfortunately, there is nothing surprising about this, to anyone who’s followed John Kerry’s illustrious career from the days when he met with the North Vietnamese in 1970 in Paris.
The New York Times is taking criticism for “burying” a report that former Secretary of State John Kerry told Iran that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times.
The story focuses on leaked audio of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaking candidly about Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the powerful branch of Iran’s Armed Forces and a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. However, 21 paragraphs into a 26-paragraph story, the Times dropped a major revelation.
“Former Secretary of State John Kerry informed him that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times, to his astonishment, Mr. Zarif said,” Times reporter Farnaz Fassihi wrote.
The Biden administration has said that when Kerry said this it was in the public domain already. Kerry himself has said that Zarif was lying and that Kerry never said any such thing. Sounds a tad contradictory.
What’s more:
There are two possible explanations here. Either John Kerry is lying or Zarif is lying because the tapes say what they say. This isn’t some anonymous claim made up by a political enemy and because of that, Kerry doesn’t get to play both sides of the fence on this. Given that, let’s assume Zarif is lying and that Kerry never actually shared intelligence with him.
If that’s true, then Kerry has just backed himself into a corner. He can’t simultaneously say not to believe Zarif, the supposed “moderate” in Iran, while at the same time stumping for a return of the Iran deal and lauding his previous work on that front. That extends to the Biden administration as well because they have chosen to employ Kerry as some kind of climate czar. If they are going to not fire Kerry and instead buy his denials here, then they are now in the position of enforcing the assertion that Iran is led by liars who can’t be trusted.
I suppose that might be true if anything in the Biden administration followed the rules of logic or was judged by the rules of logic. But I’ve seen little evidence so far that that’s the case.
Having zero shame and self-awareness is a definite advantage.
Zero shame is the perfect description. The guy who deigned to negotiate with the North Vietnamese regarding the war we were in — if ever was a case of treason, that is it. Zounds!
Nasty couple Kerry and Zarif, they are two of a kind
@ Zaphod: JFK is nothing if not fully self-aware; it is his essence.
@F: Isn’t the Logan Act still officially on the books?
@ Zara A: well, ketchup has been used as a simulation for blood.
Treason has been a lucrative career for John F. (Ghengis con) Kerry.
John Kerry told Iran that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times.
Anyone who follows the news in the Middle East is quite aware that Israel has been whacking Iranian interests in Syria for quite some time.
It’s a fair assumption that if Iranian interests in Syria are attacked, Israel did it. I don’t believe Iran needed John Kerry to tell them that.
To my way of thinking, Kerry’s informing Iran about what Israel is planning in Syria would be treasonous.
John Kerry is just one of the worst scumbags to pop up and flourish in the history of America. If that descriptive noun is deemed too classless and profane, the next word that comes to mind has 7 letters; it begins with an “a” and ends with an “e.”
He has no honor.
Was this something recent or did Kerry blab to Iran back in 2018 when he was meeting in Paris with Iranian government officials about ways to thwart the Trump administration’s sanctions?
John Kerry may well be the reincarnation of Benedict Arnold.
If not, he’s certainly a bird of the same feather.
May he in the afterlife, reap the reward, he so richly deserves.
Lock him up!
For John Kerry, lying is only used as a first resort.
Actually, Biden, Kerry and Zarif are all proven liars.
“I Didn’t Do It, Nobody Saw Me Do It, There’s No Way You Can Prove Anything!”
-Bart Simpson
-Also John Kerry
How does it feel under the bus, Mr. Kerry?
Although as pointed out, the Biden gang don’t seem capable of processing Kerry’s flat denial against what they said.
200 operations? That seems a bit high in terms of what is necessary or that Kerry could remember to tell them. I suspect it is a bit of hyperbole for internal consumption. But Israel can point to just 1 that was foiled; I’m ready to move to the sentencing phase for Kerry.
How sad that the Iranian Foreign Minister has more credibility than Joh F’n Kerry.
I could never figure out why Kerry has been politically present for so long. He has never sounded remotely intelligent and has the mien of an effete upperclass supercilious dandy.
Guess that makes him fit right in with the left.
Leland;
Kerry could have just have had all of them printed out and put in a binder, old school, or on a thumb drive, new school.
R2L:
Yes, the Logan Act is still on the books. But aside from never having been used, I think we would have to have a Department of Justice (is that title still in effect?) that would want to prosecute Democrats. James Comey’s comment regarding the impossibility of prosecuting Hillary Clinton for violating national security should have disabused us of any likelihood of that.
Jeanne,
My theory is that John Kerry is a trophy husband. A job he has spent most of his life seeking out and fulfilling.
I scanned some of the Z Man blog material. He states that a person who is worth $50M can buy super cars, mansions, and a modest yacht. So what does several billion dollars get you? At that level people tend to buy into the attention and maybe some control of the entire populace.
Teresa Heinz gets John Kerry and his influence, and the Party lets Kerry keep some of his influence on the hopes that they will have some access to Heinz’s billions and/or her empire machinery.
I had to laugh at news items over the last few years discussing Christopher Heinz’s (Teresa’s son) business partnership with Hunter Biden. He broke it off with Hunter when Hunter’s conflicts of interest got too sleazy. Who’s avarice is worse: the corporate scion or the politician’s scion?
Kerry has always reminded me of the insider villain in a spy action novel. The snobbish and entitled faux Brahmin who leveraged himself into high office by lying. The one who’s feeding secrets to the foreign bad guys and, voila, true to form.
“I’m ready to move to the sentencing phase for Kerry.”
Well, the problem here is that the Democratic party (no matter what some Democrats might mouth and others might like to believe) is NOT an ally of the State of Israel. That fallacy was exposed, or should have been during the august administration of Obama and his merrye “by the book”-ers.
In fact, since said group of American patriots and Lovers of Israel decided to shack up with the Mullahs, the opposite is the case.
Of course, it’s entirely possible that some people may not have been paying attention to the Obama regime’s foreign policy decisions between 2009 or so and 2016, nor Kerry’s post-2016 fling with the same Mullahs in an effort to reassure the latter that they could look forward to better days after Trump “left the scene”. Remember: The CCP, the Mullahs, the Palestinians, most American liberals and the GOP never-ever-Trumpers all decided to gather ’round and support the same candidate—“Biden” they call him. (Now THERE’s “UNITY” for ye!….) Though to be fair to “Biden” and his Union of Gangster supporters (or Naive, if one wishes to be charitable), it should be added—jus’ sayin’—that Trump was, nonetheless elected by a landslide, but was removed only by virtue of a “small” technicality otherwise knows as a stolen election….
…the point being that not only will Kerry NOT be sentenced: he’ll be lauded. Maybe even promoted…. Let’s see, Extra-Special Plenipotentiary Extraordinaire to the Middle-East Peace Circus…
But don’t take my word for it; my predictions have always been a bit iffy…. (FWIW I’m still waiting for Hunter to be appointed Drug Czar in the current illustrious administration—given the “Biden”-ites’—i.e., Obama’s—most peculiar sense of humor. Keep telling meself it should happen any day now….)
Related (with some “cute” twitter grabs; as Ben (All-Roads-Lead-To) Rhodes reenters the mosh pit—though one might indeed ask whether he ever left…):
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/446649/
“…old tricks…”
Somewhat O/T (but not really), here’s the Magnum Opus (and no, I’m not exaggerating) of explications that analyze and illustrate America’s currently grim and sinister-seeming predicament. The author clearly, coherently and majestically explains how we got here, the country has been derailed and how it might be able to get back on track.
A “must read”.
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2021/5/defounding-america
H/T Powerline blog.
The Logan Act has been used recently in the sense of being used as a threat to intimidate people (such as Flynn) with the idea that they or their relatives will be prosecuted under it. In that sense it’s been very useful.
@TommyJay, my take is different. Theresa Heinz is the widow of Senator John Heinz. She sits on many boards, and is active in many foundations, and most importantly – the Heinz family trust is worth billions. Are you certain she is not the better connected one, with John Kerry as her reasonably well-pedigreed pet husband? I’ve long concluded that this is a better fit with Kerry’s long self-serving and self-aggrandizing myth-building.
@Aggie:
Point there.
Tom Friedman is another example of a very wealthy heiress’s kept man. Perhaps they act out to compensate.
Aggie, yes. Which is why Americans still use Heinz ketchup and it has High fructose corn syrup in it.