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State Department Spends $500K on “Lying to Congress” Training
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On August 11, 2014 @ 2:13 pm In The Point | 4 Comments
Considering how much of the State Department’s vital work involves lying to Congress, you can see why it’s worth every cent.
After suffering through a striking number of rough grillings at the hands of Congress, State Department officials have approved a contract worth up to $545,000 to help train themselves for how to brief lawmakers and to testify at hearings.
The contract with Orlando, Florida-based AMTIS, Inc. includes classes entitled “Communicating with Congress: Briefing and Testifying” and pays for one-on-one sessions to hold a mock hearing with questioners playing the role of lawmakers asking hard questions of the would-be witnesses.
Over the last two years, department officials have stumbled through hearings on their handling of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, been berated for failing to be able to lay out a new legal framework for the war on terror and seen one top campaign bundler for President Obama admit he’d never traveled to Argentina — the country he’d been nominated to serve in as U.S. ambassador.
State Department officials did not respond to questions about the contract by deadline on Thursday.
Looks like they still haven’t completed their “Lying to the Media: Prevaricating and Falsifying” course.
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