Posted on 06/02/2016 12:09:00 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The State Department has admitted that an official intentionally deleted several minutes of video footage from a 2013 press briefing, where a top spokeswoman seemed to acknowledge misleading the press over the Iran nuclear deal, Fox News reported Wednesday.
“There was a deliberate request [to delete the footage] – this wasn’t a technical glitch,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said, in admitting that an unidentified official had a video editor “excise” the segment.
The State Department had faced questions earlier this year over the block of missing tape from a December 2013 briefing. At that briefing, then-spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked by Fox News’ James Rosen about an earlier claim that no direct, secret talks were underway between the U.S. and Iran – when, in fact, they were.
Psaki at the time seemed to admit the discrepancy, saying, “There are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. This is a good example of that.”
Fox News later discovered, however, that this exchange was missing from the department’s official website and its YouTube channel. Eight minutes from the briefing, including the comments on the Iran deal, were edited out and replaced with a white-flash effect.
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We are in Orwell territory....
the lying DemocRaTs will lie about anything and everything, and re-write the present, past, and future whenever they can.....
Treachery requires secrecy, particularly treachery of this magnitude.
But in this case, they cannot. All the media present had their own recording, so it doesn’t matter if the White House decided to edit out their official video, the footage remains available. So this is incompetent lying.
Katie Couric found this out as well.
except that media footage often gets buried deep in their archives, and the Dept. of State held the public record that researchers might depend upon in the future....
This is big....look for this one to grow legs..
Exactly. They only want to fool some of the people some of the time, and most of the people most of the time. Those that are not fooled, however, can kick up a ruckus.
“a video editor received a call from a State Department public affairs official who made “a specific request ... to excise that portion of the briefing.”
These people have names. THEY MUST BE OUTED.
Start with everybody who touched that video. Weed out those who do not edit videos. GET THEM TO TESTIFY. IF THEY REFUSE, ARREST THEM.
Then go after the person who made the request. TESTIFY, REFUSE, ARREST.
And on up the food chain.
The most transparent administration in history.
The Obama's are salivating to get rich quick like the Clintons did upon exiting the WH. Mrs O has said its time they make a little money making speeches (like the Clintons).
<><> We demand to see the list wire-transfers going in and out of Valerie's office.
<><> We demand to see the fund solicitation letters from the Obama 's two foundations (two that we know of).
<><> Open the books of Obama's billion dollar Chicago library funding (headed by O's sister).
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Arkansas senator Tom Cotton hammered the president's foreign policy staff Tuesday morning, explaining why he's become "public enemy number one at the White House" over his opposition to the Iran deal. "I guess I became public enemy number one at the White House because I'm telling the truth about the Iran deal.
Cotton spoke out w/ radio host Hugh Hewitt, after Hewitt played a clip of White House press secretary Josh Earnest rejecting Cotton's arguments about the Iran deal.
"And that chump may think that subsidizing Iran's nuclear program with millions of tax dollars is a laughing matter. I don't think it's that funny. And if he or anyone else over there had ever been man enough to put on the uniform and pick up a rifle, and have to lead men in dodging Iranian-made bombs, they might not be laughing, either," the freshman senator added.
The Obama's are salivating to get rich quick like the Clintons did upon exiting the WH. Mrs O has said its time they make a little money making speeches (like the Clintons).
<><> We demand to see the list wire-transfers going in and out of Valerie's office.
<><> We demand to see the fund solicitation letters from the Obama 's two foundations (two that we know of).
<><> Open the books of Obama's billion dollar Chicago library funding (headed by O's sister).
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Arkansas senator Tom Cotton hammered the president's foreign policy staff Tuesday morning, explaining why he's become "public enemy number one at the White House" over his opposition to the Iran deal. "I guess I became public enemy number one at the White House because I'm telling the truth about the Iran deal.
Cotton spoke out w/ radio host Hugh Hewitt, after Hewitt played a clip of White House press secretary Josh Earnest rejecting Cotton's arguments about the Iran deal.
"And that chump may think that subsidizing Iran's nuclear program with millions of tax dollars is a laughing matter. I don't think it's that funny. And if he or anyone else over there had ever been man enough to put on the uniform and pick up a rifle, and have to lead men in dodging Iranian-made bombs, they might not be laughing, either," the freshman senator added.
Yep, wow. Never saw that coming. It looks like we got "Psakied" AGAIN. This Bulls--- just never stops, does it?
I doubt this would even get criminal prosecution from an honest prosecutor. It’s bad to lie to the public, but not a crime on a public relations web site, especially where the media itself has its own records to catch the lie, which is exactly what happened.
“Unidentified Official” — they are giving the impression that this person was with State. Most likely it came from the White House political wing. Valerie Jarrett?
ping
Trump needs to end the ‘State Department’ ...clean out the pedophiles, liars, and shakedown artists who collectively "have the right tone" at dinner parties, drawing rooms and private clubs but are destroying the country. State Department people have confused the 'appearance of competence' with competence. The 'appearance' they've got down pat... the BS of the poser.
I'm surprised most of 'em aren't in the ME or Africa on sabbaticals giving 'speeches' to rooms filled with people who don't speak English... paid for by crooks who know how to buy foolish Americans who aren't willing to admit they're taking bribes.
YES - deleting parts of videos and forms is not a surprise - under the smooth exterior of these folks is pure lower class scammer...
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