While many news outlets the world over prominently featured leaked audio recordings of Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif alleging, among other things, that former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had perhaps traitorously compromised intelligence information about Israeli military actions (see here, here and here, for example), the Washington Post buried bland coverage on page 11 that seemed to go out of its way to keep Mr. Kerry’s name out of it [“Iran’s foreign minister laments interference,” Apr. 27].
In fairness to Post Istanbul bureau chief Kareem Fahim, his original story quite likely included a paragraph or two about Mr. Kerry’s conversations with Mr. Zarif, both as secretary of state and as a private citizen during the Trump administration, during which Kerry may have offered his Iranian friend classified information about some 200 covert Israeli military actions in Syria. But Post editors back here in Washington, likely reluctant to inconvenience the Biden administration, deleted any mention of Mr. Kerry who now serves as White House climate czar.
Of course, it seems like just yesterday that the Post and other leftist media featured daily front page stories condemning Lt. Gen. Michale Flynn, then President-elect Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor, about comparatively benign chats with Russia’s foreign minister in the weeks before Inauguration Day in 2017. Logan Act violations were breathlessly alleged by Democrats and their media henchmen at the time. But now the nothing-to-see-here Post would have us believe that Mr. Kerry’s alleged betrayal of our most important Middle East ally is no big deal – especially since said betrayal was presumably perpetrated in pursuit of renewing the Obama administration’s feckless, Kerry-engineered nuclear agreement with terrorism-exporting Iran.