Posted on 08/22/2016 4:32:59 PM PDT by SSS Two
EXCLUSIVE: An investigation by the State Department's top attorney has found that the official who ordered the censorship of a 2013 press briefing -- deleting an exchange between a department spokeswoman and a Fox News reporter -- specifically mentioned that exchange when ordering the doctoring of the video.
That fact, buried in a new report prepared by the department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, was ignored in the report's own conclusions about why the incident occurred, and conflicted with public statements about the report made by State Department spokesman John Kirby.
At issue in the exchange was a previous one between Rosen and then-spokeswoman Victoria Nuland from February 2013. Asked if the U.S. and Iran were engaged in secret bilateral talks, Nuland said no such "government to government" contacts were taking place between the Obama administration and Tehran. In fact, such talks were underway for a year by the time Nuland denied them. (Earlier this year, Nuland claimed she had been kept "in the dark" about the Iran talks.)
In the December 2013 exchange, Rosen confronted Psaki about the falsity of Nuland’s prior statement and asked if it was the policy of the State Department to lie in order to preserve “the secrecy of secret negotiations.” “There are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress,” Psaki said. “This is a good example of that.” For some two years, the State Department’s web page hosting that briefing contained a version of the video in which that exchange was excised and replaced with a white flash.
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So—Who in the State Department is getting canned for this?
Canned??? No, no, no... PROMOTED!
John Kirby has been working assiduously to cement his reputation as a habitual liar.
Such skills are highly sought-after and well-compensated by numerous Federal government departments, the Clinton regime, um, I mean, the Clinton campaign, the DNC, etc.
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