The Washington Free Beacon has a report showing that NPR twice canceled interviews with a prominent Iran deal critic, Representative Mike Pompeo, while under the influence of large donations from the Iran lobby.

NPR had received funding from the liberal Ploughshares Fund, which has been exposed as being a core part of a White House-backed campaign to push lobbyists, policy analysts, and journalists in favor of the deal.  When asked by reporters last week about refusing the interviews, NPR suggested that Pompeo’s office had never reached out to the station. However, multiple emails viewed by the Free Beacon demonstrate that Pompeo’s office had been in two separate talks with NPR producers about scheduling an interview.

These developments threaten to entangle NPR in a growing scandal over the White House’s coordinated efforts to mislead Congress and the American people about the contents of the nuclear accord.

The Iran Deal was apparently sold through a combination of fraud and bribery.  The fraud has been confessed to by none other than President Obama’s Deputy Adviser for National Security, one Ben Rhodes.

The bribery, meanwhile, has been proven by public records such as those documenting these NPR donations.  It has also been proven in Federal court.  For example, Hassan Namazee — a multi-millionaire Iranian-American banker — plead guilty to a fraud scheme involving hundreds of millions of dollars.  He was a bundler for the Clinton campaign, and arranged massive donations from Iranian lobby groups to prominent Senators who supported the Iran deal.

Commentary magazine had a thoroughgoing report exposing the money routed through the Ploughshares Fund to buy support for the Iran deal.
Pompeo, who was denied the ability to speak to NPR’s large American audience during the critical days of the Iran deal, deserves the last word.

“The pieces are coming together on President Obama’s machinations in selling the Iran deal. As Obama administration officials admit to misrepresenting reality on the deal, it is clear that the American people have been played,” Pompeo, a member of the House intelligence committee, told the Free Beacon on Monday. “Specifically, recent statements and financial documents raise serious concerns about the integrity of the Ploughshares Fund, NPR, which is partly tax-payer funded, and the entire nuclear deal debate.”“Unfortunately,” Pompeo said, “instead of coming clean, groups like NPR continue to distort facts. For example, NPR told the AP that it had ‘no record’ of my multiple interview requests, though it had actually cancelled on me, as it now admits. This comes on top of refusing or ignoring my multiple requests to be on their programs. It is important that the American people continue to look into this questionable relationship.”