Tag: Black Cube

The history of presidents who obsess and dig up dirt on the administrations that preceded them isn’t pretty. Think Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Trump has actually exceeded them in paranoia and low political tactics. The Trump team hired a notorious Israeli spy outfit, Black Cube, to snoop into the personal lives of two former Obama officials, Ben Rhodes and Colin Kahl, hoping to dig up evidence that they had revealed classified information to reporters, among other things. Indeed, it recalls the worst of Nixonian tactics, including treating principled political adversaries as dangerous enemies to be destroyed. Black Cube is the worthy inheritor of these kinds of heinous reputational hit jobs. Coming off the Observer story, the New Yorker revealed that Black Cube may have sent emails to the wives of Rhodes and Kahl via the same shell companies it used on behalf of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein in an effort to discredit his accusers. Trump has labeled the Iran deal the “worst deal ever”. The whole point of the nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama’s team was to prevent this from ever happening. Scrapping the deal in the face of a 12 May deadline will only return the world to its very dangerous nuclear status quo.