A White House adviser said he took advantage of inexperienced reporters to push a false narrative about the negotiations with Iran over a nuclear agreement. Ben Rhodes claimed the negotiations with Iran began after the moderate Hassan Rouhani became president in 2013 when the framework was actually hashed out with the previous hard-line regime. Rhodes twisted the truth to help convince the American public that the agreement was made by more trustworthy figures in the Iranian government. (The Washington Post, May 6, 2016, by Paul Farhi)
The National Review said in lying about the origins of the agreement, the Obama administration was trying to distract the public from “the huge concessions it was offering to Tehran.” (National Review, May 9, 2016, by Fred Leitz)