Tom Cotton: 'Kerry Acted Like Pontius Pilate' on Iran Side Deals

MarkF | July 23, 2015
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Ouch: this one's going to leave a mark.  Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has said that "John Kerry acted like Pontius Pilate, he washed his hands" on crucial issues in the Iran deal and left it to the IAEA to negotiate secret side deals with Iran on them.

Cotton made his remarks on today's Morning Joe.  It might be a mark of the regard, or lack thereof, in which Kerry is held that no one on the panel rose to his defense.  Harold Ford, Jr. was given the floor immediately after Cotton spoke, and blithely asked only if Kerry would be asked about these issues in his Senate testimony. A bit later in the show, Dem Sen. Tim Kaine appeared.  Surely he either watched or was briefed on Cotton's statement, but said not a peep to push back on his Pontius Pilate analogy.

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