Freshman conservative Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is being compared to a secret agent these days, but unfortunately for him it’s not the sexy James Bond or clever, one-man-army Jason Bourne, but the “International Man of Mystery” himself, Austin Powers.
Cotton’s been dubbed the “International Man of Mystery” by White House spokesperson and Press Secretary Josh Earnest after claiming to uncover “secret side deals” to the Iran nuclear agreement while on a trip to Vienna last week, only according to Earnest, there are no “secret deals” regarding the Iran nuclear deal and any of the information Cotton “uncovered” while in Vienna he could have simply found on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) website two weeks before, when the nuclear deal was sealed with Iran.
Earnest stated, according to The Washington Times:
“I hope that Senator Cotton had a pleasant trip to Vienna, but his travel was not necessary to learn the information he claims to have obtained.”
Cotton made his claims to knowledge of “secret deals” Thursday, but as Earnest has shown, clearly the White House isn’t sweating the allegations. If anything, they’re laughing them off by reducing Cotton to the clown status he is among the “international man of mystery” crowd. And what’s funniest of all is, he’s not even up to Austin Powers’ standards.
Earnest stated:
“The documents that Senator Cotton claims to have learned of during his trip to Vienna were actually documents that were previously discussed in material that we put forward some time earlier. So the fact is, Senator Cotton didn’t really learn of anything in Vienna that wasn’t already available to be learned, and this is information that was disclosed on the IAEA website.”
You can see the “secret deals” Cotton “discovered” in Vienna on the IAEA website, here. There, you’ll find the “road map” for protocol regarding inspections of Iran’s facilities into the foreseen future. It seems they spilled the beans on July 14.
Of course, Cotton is now claiming, “No, no, no, no, no.” It’s not those deals he’s referring to, Mr. Earnest. It’s some other secret plans that only he seems to know about regarding “weaponization” which “will remain secret from the American people.”
But not if Cotton has anything to say about it. If the White House isn’t careful, he just might break these fake, “secret” plans wide open, and then where will you be? Who will be laughing, then, Obama?
So it seems Cotton may have a touch of Dr. Evil to him, as well.
Sounds like another Benghazi can to be kicked around whenever the conservative children feel like playing games instead of tackling the tough problems government faces every day. Hooray!
Sen. Cotton looks more and more ridiculous every time he opens his mouth. And when it comes to foreign affairs, he’s damn near insane — or have folks already forgotten when he thought ISIS and drug cartels from Mexico were conspiring to burn Arkansas to the ground? Or when he compared Secretary of State John Kerry to Pontius Pilate?
His credibility on foreign affairs is about as solid at this point as Native American treaties in the eyes of the government. It looks right through them, laughs them off, ignores them altogether.
But Cotton is a desperate freshman clawing after the limelight Ted Cruz and Donald Trump command with their loudmouthed, sensational buffoonery, so it is unlikely we have heard the last crazy accusation come out of his mouth. After all, credibility doesn’t mean much in politics anymore. It hasn’t for some time, if ever. It’s like America’s got Cotton in its ears.
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