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"It's been kind of a front seat at some historic events--killing bin Laden, ending the Iraq war, a whole bunch of things--so it's been extraordinary," Vietor says.Who is Ben Rhodes and what qualifies him to be the Deputy National SecurityAdviser?Maybe he has a certain talent for fiction. Vietor showed off the usual cavalier attitude of the White House toward Benghazi with this tweet before going on air. The key word here is “monitor.” Do we expect the Commander in Chief to monitor or to lead? “You realize that there’s a sense of stillness in the air, and you walk into the Oval Office. “You forge this pretty intense relationship because you’re dealing with adversity together, trying to figure out a problem, and you literally can’t talk to them about that stuff anymore.“The times I went back [to the White House] to visit or to see people for work reasons, it was weird. It was while doing one of those small jobs Vietor first met the man who would be his boss for the next decade.“I was in the office late one night and I had printed out a bunch of press packets, and I had screwed up when I did it,” he remembered. How a boy from Boston waxed philosophical at Kenyon, hitched a ride to the White House with a hotshot senator and ended up as the voice in millions of ears across America. Vietor later served as Special Assistant to the President until early 2013, when he departed politics to pursue private sector consulting. Right back at you.

It’s also got two separate designer closets, plus a Jack-and-Jill style bathroom situation. “When I graduated from college, I wasn’t sure what to do.”Back at home in Massachusetts, a bit of luck and a serendipitous family connection helped Vietor land an interview with the office of then-Senator Ted Kennedy, which led to a summer internship. “You become who you are because of the people around you, and Kenyon’s great in fostering that environment. After working as press secretary for a then-Senator Barack Obama, the self-described “political junkie” became Obama’s assistant press secretary during his White House administration. A Manhattan native, Rhodes went on to write the Iraq Study Group Report and help draft policy recommendations for the 9/11 Commission, which Hamilton co-chaired.Then there is Valerie Jarrett, who appears to be running the country while Obama plays golf, shoots hoops, parties, and has “downtime,” as Michelle Obama recently called it, with his family, watching TV.Even among foreign policy appointees with actual credentials, such as UN Ambassador Samantha Power who has a PhD, it is all theory and no actual experience and an inability to follow through on all the fine words she has written.As Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit so often sarcastically remarks, “The country is in the best of hands.”Former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor appeared last night on Bret Baier’s Fox News Channel program Special Report, in an attempt at damage control, but only made things worse for the Obama Benghazi cover-up. During Obama's presidential campaign from 2007–2008, he was Iowa Press Secretary.Vietor left the White House in March 2013, along with Obama's Director of Speechwriting Shortly after the November 2016 election, Vietor, Lovett and Favreau decided to pursue podcasting and activism on a full-time basis. “If you think of the White House as a motorcade that is just going all the time, if you’re not in the motorcade, you’re left behind. “The fact that I can get a million people to download a podcast about a bunch of foreign policy issues is mind-boggling to me. Tommy Vietor, a 28-year-old assistant White House press secretary, surprised Michelle Obama's chief spokeswoman inside the ornate mansion while the Obamas were visiting Europe to … ft. guesthouse — formerly a detached two-car garage — with a bedroom and kitchenette, though that structure could easily be converted into a private office, meeting area or studio of some sort.The main house has been fully renovated, with clean-lined, contemporary interior decor and open-plan living spaces. I thought I’d never see him again,” recalled De Pascuale. Two pieces of actual news were generated, but perhaps the greatest damage was done by Vietor’s immature self-presentation, revealing the low level of qualifications necessary for high responsibility in the Obama White House.President Obama wasn’t in the Situation Room the night of September 11, 2012, as our ambassador to Libya and three other men were being attacked, captured, and eventually killed after being dragged through the streets of Benghazi and tortured in hideous fashion.BRET BAIER: People on the ground testified that they knew where the ambassador was, that they were military in their precision.