State Dept. admits intentionally altering video of Iran press conference

Washington Examiner ^ | 06/01/2016 | Pete Kasperowicz

[GraceG]

The State Department admitted Wednesday that a 2013 press briefing video was purposefully altered to remove a portion of a discussion about the Iran nuclear talks, after an unknown State Department official asked that it be edited out.

Spokesman John Kirby's announcement contradicted the position held by the department for the last three weeks, during which officials said the video was missing because of a "glitch."

But Kirby said officials didn't know who asked for the video to be edited, and said the department is unlikely to investigate further into who wanted the video to be edited.

Kirby said he asked the Office of the Legal Adviser to look into the issue, and that officials "learned that a specific request was made to excise that portion of the briefing. We do not know who made the request to edit the video, or why it was made."

[GraceG]

I wonder if anyone has the full unedited video...

[Zarro]

Katie Couric might.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[al baby]

If you can get past the sphincter

[Bogey78O]

Anything they say we know is a lie at this point.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

It is easier to seek forgiveness
than it is to get permission
and somehow,.. FORGIVENESS NEVER MAKES FRONT PAGE !

[Ray76]

“the department is unlikely to investigate further”

Gee, wonder why? /s

[tet68]

So, they know there was a SPECIFIC request made.
Yet, they have no idea who made it?
I’m not buying that.
They damn well know, either that or some unknown, unqualified
dog catcher in podunk Junction has a line into the
State Dept.

What a load of bunk. The American people see through this
crap and are tired of having it shoved down our throats
and being told to like it.

Those days are OVER!

TRUMP2016~!

[exit82]

The State Department has needed to be cleaned out for the last 70 years or so.

[Political Junkie Too]

And of course, they don't know who made the edit because that person might know who ordered it, or at least who told him/her to do it, and then that person might know.

So in Obama's administration, things get done but nobody knows why or who ordered it, from IRS targeting of conservatives to running guns into Mexico to erasing backup emails to ordering stand-downs of military rescue missions.

-PJ

[sparklite2]

During the Clinton years, we learned it was possible
to love your country while hating the government.
Now we know it’s the wisest course to take.

[SpaceBar]

They pulled a ‘couric’.

[William Tell]

From the linked article: "But he said the person who received the call didn't remember who the caller was, and doesn't know who in that bureau made the request."

I'll bet the caller was probably that same prankster who called the fast food restaurant and claimed that, because natural gas was leaking into the restaurant, the employees should immediately break out all the windows in the restaurant.

[hoosiermama]

Had to be a high level political appointees.

Kirby could and probably knows who this is and should expose.

[BenLurkin]

The very act of editing this particular segment is an admission of gross malfeasance on their part.

Will the public hear about this? Or will it be buried under reports on a garden variety murder/suicide?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

Thomas Jefferson

[dfwgator]

They went after Nixon for less.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“We screwed up. But we don’t know whodunit, and we don’t care to find out.”

Par for the course.

[GraceG]

[sportutegrl]

With the Democrats, everything is in passive voice. “Mistakes were made.”