Rhodes profile in The New York Times Magazine cautionary tale for political staffers everywhere, even in Ottawa

In the Trudeau era, the press profile pendulum has swung wildly in the opposite direction: the new crew are big fans of behind-the-scenes stuff, to the extent that we know more about them than we do about most members of cabinet.

U.S. President Barack Obama, then chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, press secretary Robert Gibbs, assistant to the president of legislative affairs Phil Schiliro, and deputy director of White House speechwriting Ben Rhodes, pictured in the Oval Office Oct. 13, 2009. Photograph courtesy of the White House

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

May 16, 2016

TORONTO—Meet Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications to the president of the United States of America. Or, as he was recently described in a headline in Foreign Policy magazine, an asshole. That’s a quote. “Asshole.” Foreign Policy—that...

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