WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The 34-year-old Harf’s tweets were widely seen as a preemptive strike to discredit in advance a hard-hitting speech Cheney was scheduled to give later on Monday morning at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and criticize the Iran nuclear agreement.
"Wrong Then Wrong Now," Harf, a senior adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, tweeted with a hashtag citing Cheney’s admission that he was wrong to advocate the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
A reminder ahead of former VP Cheney's speech today why he's #WrongThenWrongNow https://t.co/mTjQl6XsHz
— Marie Harf (@marieharf) 8 сентября 2015
The State Department is seeking to expand its use of social media to defend Obama administration policies both to domestic critics and the global audience.
