Jared Kushner meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, June 21 2017. (photo credit:AMOS BEN GERSHOM, GPO)
WIRED: Kushner On Middle East Peace: "What Do We Offer That's Unique? I Don't Know."
ON MONDAY, WHITE House senior adviser Jared Kushner spoke to a group of congressional interns as part of an ongoing, off-the-record summer lecture series. During the question-and-answer portion of the event, Kushner may have inadvertently offered some insight into the negotiating tactics he is using in the Middle East.
Prior to Kushner's talk, Katie Patru, the deputy staff director for member services, outreach, and communications, told the assembled interns, "To record today’s session would be such a breach of trust, from my opinion. This town is full of leakers and everyone knows who they are, and no one trusts them. In this business your reputation is everything. I’ve been on the Hill for 15 years. I’ve sat in countless meetings with members of congress where important decisions were being made. During all those years in all those meetings, I never once leaked to a reporter…. If someone in your office has asked you to break our protocol and give you a recording so they can leak it, as a manager, that bothers me at my core."
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WNU Editor: As an optimist I like to believe that everything can be negotiated and solved .... a point of view that I will admit is always being strained when it comes to the Middle East peace process.
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