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Posted on 06/02/2016 10:29:47 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
State Department Admits 'Deliberately' Censoring Video About Secret Iran Talks
No word on who wanted the video cut or why.
A government spokesman said Wednesday that the State Department purposefully removed part of a 2013 video about secret negotiations with Iran.
"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," State Department spokesman John Kirby said. "To my surprise, the Bureau of Public Affairs did not have in place any rules governing this type of action."
Kirby said the request had been "made over the phone," and that the recipient of the call did not remember who made the request.
"The recipient of the call doesn't remember anything other than that the caller, the individual who called this technician, was passing on a request from someone else in the Public Affairs Bureau," he said.
While Kirby said that he was "not aware of any other instance" of the State Department editing its briefings, he could not rule out that it had not happened before.
"I can't tell you with great certainty … that it never happened before," Kirby said.
Initially, the State Department claimed that the edit had been a "glitch," and restored the video.
The clipped section of the briefing featured Fox News reporter James Rosen asking then-State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki whether the Obama administration had lied about having secret talks with Iran in 2011 – a claim that Psaki did not deny, but that her predecessor, Victoria Nuland, had denied months before.
“State Department Admits ‘Deliberately’ Censoring Video About Secret Iran Talks”
“SOWHADYAGONNADOOBOUTIT!?”
Ho-Hum, yet another administration lie. Living and loving the lie is the essence, the nature the very being of each and every member of this administration.
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The Weekly Standard is Bill Kristol’s rag.
They simply lie to our faces without hesitation. They really do feel they are above us.
Most people believe this is a crime. At best it’s purposeful lying to the American people - that’s not transparency.
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