Posted on 06/01/2016 2:12:06 PM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Nixon was a staunch “progressive”. But the media hated him for being anti-communist.
Watergate was a media coup. It served as a warning to all politicians that the media held their careers in there hands.
It was a consolidation of the power of the mediacracy.
Meanwhile, from watching the news, the major evil in the world is Trump University.
"There were no rules in place at the time to govern this sort of action, so while I believe it was an inappropriate step to take, I see little foundation for pressing forward with a formal investigation," he said.
"I'm pretty sure there were no rules in place for recording people in the Oval Office and yet everyone went out of their minds over those 18 minutes. Live and learn, I guess. Live and learn."
This “altering” of videos is now becoming epidemic.
On Hannity last night, there was a similar “staged video” done by Telemundo at the epic California protest. Did you see that one too? Geeeez, it’s becoming common practice for the Left.
These media creeps are getting out of control.
“There is no controlling legal authority....” — Al Gore
I’m thinking also about that guy... what is his name... the one who just last week was outed for saying reporters are no nothings and he sold the boobs on the Iran Missile deal, and they wrote it up exactly as he told it.
He is an appointee, alright. A hitman for the administration and beholden in his position, to Valerie Jarrett.
Good guess. And she is only responsible to one person. Or is he to her?
Kirby is a total disgrace and should be court-martialed (I believe he was an admiral. Whose navy I couldn’t tell).
Ben Rhodes? His brother runs CBS news.
Zactly! That’s him. Ben Rhodes! A real serpent. He would do just this kind of “alteration”, wouldn’t he, or know whom to call upon to get it done.
Thank you, Prince!
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