At
US Mission to UN, Nikki Haley
Has New Spokesperson, Wachtel of
Fox, New Era?
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
February 25 – On US
inauguration day on January 20
at the US Mission to the UN
the photos of Obama, Biden,
Kerry and Samantha Power came
down. As of February 25 they
have not been replaced.
But, Inner
City Press can now report, the
spokesperson of the US Mission
has been changed. The new
spokesperson and Director of
Communications is Jonathan
Wachtel, who has covered
the UN for Fox News for some
years, including for example
when the UN got Inner City
Press removed
from Google News (and then restored),
and in 2016 increased its
attacks, with no response from
now-gone US Deputy Permanent
Representative for Management
and "Reform" Isobel Coleman,
despite this
from the Government
Accountability Project. Things
can only go up for the US
Mission's communications.
Watch this site.
Meanwhile
as elsewhere an "Alt USUN"
Twitter account continues in a
parallel online universe the
views of Power, most recently
calling out new Ambassador
Nikki Haley for only attending
three of 13 UN Security
Council meetings, on Ukraine,
ISIS and Israel - Palestine.
Fair
enough. But how many meetings
did Samantha Power attend? And
after the Israel - Palestine
meeting Nikki Haley took questions
at the Security Council
stakeout, not pre-screened by
Power's spokesman Kurtis
Cooper - who remains at the US
Mission, tweeting, along with
many others.
In fact,
Isobel Coleman who did nothing
when the DC-based
whistleblower protection group
Government Accountability
Project wrote to her about the
UN's eviction of the
investigative Press, here,
still as of February 17 lists
herself as the US
representative on UN reform.
Is it true?
In
the UN itself, Obama and
Hillary Clinton nominee
Jeffrey Feltman has gotten his
UN contract extended. Inner
City Press first
reported, from multiple
sources, that Feltman sought
this so that his UN pension
would hit the five year
vesting dateline. The UN's
holdover spokesman Stephane
Dujarric called Inner City
Press' question, and by
implication Inner City Press,
"despicable."
Or is that, deplorable?
Meanwhile
Voice of America, which was
shown under the US Freedom of
Information Act to have asked
the UN to throw out the
investigative Press, has now
asked about Jared Kushner
(video via
here) and asked the UK
about Nikki Haley's
inexperience. Like we said, an
alternative universe.
Other
former State Department
officials like Bathsheba
Crocker wring their hands
about changes in foreign
policy. But what did they do,
when the UN killed 10,000 plus
people in Haiti with cholera?
They had their time to try to
improve the UN, and largely
failed. It's time to #MoveOn.
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