follow up to obama/hillary foreign policy articles... the man behind the scenes
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magaz ... nyt-regionthis article is kind of ridiculous. im not sure why he allowed most of this to be on the record... if true somewhat concerning that this guy is running the US's national security apparatus. also the way he candidly discussed abusing social media to bend the public to his will on the iran deal is... worrying?
“In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. “We created an echo chamber,” he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”
also i love the bit where he indicts the media for having no credentials or experience and for being too green, when he himself is directing american foreign policy with an MFA while still in his 30s...