Posted on 06/10/2016 7:04:17 PM PDT by Lorianne
The State Department acknowledged Wednesday that someone in its public affairs bureau made a “deliberate” request that several minutes of tape be cut from the video of a 2013 press briefing in which a reporter asked if the administration had lied about secret talks with Iran.
The embarrassing admission by State Department spokesman John Kirby came three weeks after another spokesperson insisted that a “glitch” had caused the gap, discovered only last month by the reporter whose questioning had mysteriously disappeared.
“This wasn’t a technical glitch, this was a deliberate step to excise the video,” Kirby told reporters.
Kirby said he had not been able to learn who ordered the deletion, which appeared as a jarring, undisguised white flash on the archived video posted on the State Department’s website and in its YouTube video.
“The recipient of the call doesn’t remember anything other than the caller, the individual who called this technician, was passing on a request from someone else within the public affairs bureau,” Kirby said, explaining the faulty memory by adding, “This happened three years ago.”
The missing portion of the video came to light in early May when James Rosen of Fox News was preparing a report on White House communications advisor Ben Rhodes, who had boasted to a New York Times Magazine reporter of having created an “echo chamber” to market the Iran nuclear deal and undermine criticisms from opponents. The magazine story said the White House portrayed it as a result of a moderate being elected president of Iran in 2013, when in fact secret talks had been underway since 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
But when Rosen called up the video, he was surprised to find that the entire exchange with Psaki, several minutes long, was missing. He asked the State Department about it, and it said that it had found an intact video in a repository and restored it.
“Genuinely, we think it was a glitch,” said Elizabeth Trudeau, director of the press office, in a May 10 briefing.
According to Kirby, who succeeded Psaki last year, the Rosen section was edited out the day Psaki made the statement, after a technician was called by someone within the press office.
“They learned that a specific request was made to excise that portion of that briefing,” he said. “We do not know who made the request to edit the video, or why it was made.”
Psaki, now White House communications director, denied it was her.
This administration makes Hitler’s propaganda ministry look like pikers in comparison.
They sure like that word "glitch"... it's such a cliche'
Nothing but scum, the whole lot.
Trump will purge theses ba$tards into oblivion and poverty.
16 minutes of missing tape is what hung Nixon.
And one wonders why we don’t trust anyone in Government...
GO.TRUMP.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE OVAL OFFICE!!!
“Genuinely, we think it was a glitch,”
Perfect editing, yep just a glitch.
“I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!”
These people are absolute imbeciles, or are pathological liars. One or both of those things must certainly be true.
I am sure this will be trumpeted by the MSM. Sarcasm off now.
A GLITCH.
The same way Fast & Furious was BOTCHED, huh.
This cannot be done. It's completely obvious that BOTH parties, and ALL of the mainstream media, decided early on that "The First Black President" cannot be a failure, cannot be corrupt, cannot be a tin-horn dictator. After all, he is an INSPIRATION to generations of black children, so all foibles MUST be covered up.
The hilarious thing is, I'm certain, the tell-all books that are published in the first couple of years after he is out of office will be BRUTAL. And those generations of black children are just going to have to deal with it.
Left to right, top to bottom, front to back, the U.S. Government is liars lying.
Yeah. Most transparent administration ever.
America has come to expect lies from obama’s minions, as from obama himself.
The phone conversation must have gone something like this /sarc
video editor:
“Hello”
unidentified, unknown, stranger:
“Yes, please edit out James Rosen’s question and Psaki’s answer from today’s briefing”.
video editor:
“Okay, consider it done”.
video editor’s colleague:
“Who was that?”
video editor:
“I have no idea, but I have to delete several minutes of today’s briefing video”.
video editor’s colleague:
“On whose authority?”
video editor:
“On that unidentified, unknown, stranger’s authority”
video editor’s colleague:
“Okay then”.
bump
bump
ben rhodes bump
Rosen was the guy , wasn’t he, who the Obama administration wiretapped even though the former Obama admin officials now claim they never wiretapped an American citizen?
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