STUNNING>>> Obama White House Told Timothy Geithner to Lie to American People

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The Democrats were responsible for originally taking Social Security from an independent fund and putting it into a fund controlled by Congress.  The Dems were responsible for putting a tax on Social Security as well as increasing that very same tax.

So, it may not be surprising to know that the Obama Administration told Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, to lie to the American people about the long term costs of Social Security.

In Geithner’s new memoir, “Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises,” he said Dan Pfeiffer told him to lie to the American people and say that Social Security did not contribute to the deficit.

Daily Mail reported:

The White House wanted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to lie on Sunday talk shows to downplay the part Social Security played in driving the deficit, it was revealed today.

Geithner writes in his memoir Stress Test, out today, that the White House communications director asked him to downplay the long term cost of Social Security spending to mollify the Democratic Party’s base.

‘I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn’t contribute to the deficit. It wasn’t a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute,’ he says.

‘Pfeiffer said the line was a ‘dog whistle’ to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.’

Geithner’s book release comes amidst allegations that the White House changed the Sunday show talking points of U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice’s after the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya for political reasons.

Days after the White House claims it knew what happened in Benghazi was ‘an act of terror,’ Rice wrongly blamed an anti-Muslim internet video for the deadly assault in a string of high-profile interviews on network news stations.

The White House has forcefully denied that it made anything other than minor changes to Rice’s talking points. Recently released e-mails between deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and White House communications staff calls the veracity of the Obama administration’s claims into question.

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Previously on TGP:

Social Security History Lesson

 

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