White House: Boehner Invite to Netanyahu Breach of Protocol
White House: Boehner Invite to Netanyahu Breach of Protocol, New York Times, January 21, 2015
Earnest says they are reserving judgment about the invitation until they’ve had a chance to speak to the Israelis about what Netanyahu might say.
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The White House says House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation for Israel’s prime minister to come to Washington is a breach of normal diplomatic protocol.
President Barack Obama’s press secretary, Josh Earnest, says the White House has not heard from Israelis about whether Benjamin Netanyahu plans to speak to Congress Feb. 11. Earnest says they are reserving judgment about the invitation until they’ve had a chance to speak to the Israelis about what Netanyahu might say.
Earnest says typical protocol is that a country’s leader would contact the White House before planning to visit the United States. But Earnest says they didn’t hear about Boehner’s invitation until Wednesday morning, shortly before the speaker announced it publicly.
Earnest was speaking to reporters traveling aboard Air Force One to Idaho on Wednesday.
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WarSclerotic 
January 21, 2015 at 9:12 PM
So freedom of speech is not appropriate at the highest levels of our government?
January 21, 2015 at 10:05 PM
In his State of the Unon speech Obama used the phrase “bankrupt ideology of violent extremism.” In other words Obama speaks Newspeak while Netanyahu speaks English. They cannot understand each other. What’s the point in meeting?
The purpose of Newspeak: To make all other modes of thought impossible.
We have finally reached the point George Orwell warned us about in 1949 when his novel 1984 was published. We cannot defend ourselves any more because the official government vocabulary has been stripped of the words to formulate the problem in the first place. Although Orwell expected Newspeak to be adopted by 2050, he was wrong. Newspeak is already in effect.
As Robert Spencer points out , “FBI had no idea how to tell whether or not Tamerlan Tsarnaev was “engaging in extremist activity,” because the “extremist activity” he was engaging in was Islamic jihad, and Obama’s FBI is forbidden to study Islamic jihad. This is because the Obama Administration in 2011 mandated the scrubbing of counter-terror training materials of the truth about Islam and jihad.”
http://madisdead.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/the-purpose-of-newspeak-to-make-all.html
January 22, 2015 at 12:44 AM
The days of the USA as a free / democratic society are numbered – this terrible / twisted man illegally sitting in the WH is successfully destroying the once great Nation USA ! ” In every other Nation, BHO would be impeached” – I agree….Like the rabbit staring at the snake – americans are watching passivly how their great Nation is destroyed by Mr BHO and his gang……