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<blockquote data-quote="newfie" data-source="post: 2875525" data-attributes="member: 58700"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/30/gregg-jarrett-jared-kushner-gets-mugged-by-media-mob.html" target="_blank">Gregg Jarrett: Jared Kushner gets mugged by the media mob</a>Notably, President John Kennedy depended on two sets of back channel communications with the Soviets to diffuse the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962.&nbsp;&nbsp; His brother Bobby Kennedy arranged an urgent deal with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to remove the missiles in Cuba in exchange for the U.S. removing obsolete missiles in Turkey. But nowhere in the hyper-media coverage was this mentioned in the hours after the Kushner story broke.&nbsp; Only two days later, in an opinion column by David Ignatius, did the Washington Post admit the value of secret contacts when he observed, “Such back channels can add stability and predictability in foreign relations.”&nbsp; Few in the media have picked up on it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="newfie, post: 2875525, member: 58700"] [URL='http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/30/gregg-jarrett-jared-kushner-gets-mugged-by-media-mob.html']Gregg Jarrett: Jared Kushner gets mugged by the media mob[/URL] Notably, President John Kennedy depended on two sets of back channel communications with the Soviets to diffuse the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. His brother Bobby Kennedy arranged an urgent deal with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to remove the missiles in Cuba in exchange for the U.S. removing obsolete missiles in Turkey. But nowhere in the hyper-media coverage was this mentioned in the hours after the Kushner story broke. Only two days later, in an opinion column by [B]David Ignatius, did the Washington Post admit the value of secret contacts when he observed, [/B][I][B]“Such back channels can add stability and predictability in foreign relations.”[/B][/I] Few in the media have picked up on it. [/QUOTE]

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