[ April 18, 2024 ]
The Obama administration can do whatever it wants. It can lie openly and brazenly to the American people — in service of Iran’s jihad — and there is never any accountability. And this comes after Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and a myriad of other scandals at which the lapdog media did everything it could to cover for this corrupt and feckless regime. Treason on a massive scale.
“State Department admits briefing footage on Iran deal intentionally deleted,” Fox News, June 1, 2016:
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The State Department, in a stunning admission, acknowledged Wednesday 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.
“There was a deliberate request [to delete the footage] – this wasn’t a technical glitch,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday, in admitting that an unidentified official had a video editor “excise” the segment.
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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.”
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However, Fox News later discovered the Psaki 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.
Officials initially suggested a “glitch” occurred.
But on Wednesday, current State Department spokesman Kirby said someone had censored the video intentionally. He said he couldn’t find out who was responsible, but described such action as unacceptable.
While saying there were “no rules [or] regulations in place that prohibited” this at the time, Kirby said: “Deliberately removing a portion of the video was not and is not in keeping with the State Department’s commitment to transparency and public accountability.”
Kirby said he learned that on the same day of the 2013 briefing, 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.”
Kirby says he has since ordered the original video restored on all platforms and asked the State Department’s legal adviser to examine the matter. He said no further investigation will be made, primarily because no rules were in place against such actions….
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28 Comments
7 years ago
Bad lame stream media dhimmi, you got caught, this will embarrass your master. The punishment will be severe.
7 years ago
VOTE FOR THE DONALD ! 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu5jHu58PHE
7 years ago
Reply to
Wolfgang Stahl
I’m surprised by this video after Trump’s awful comments about hispanics/latinos.
Thanks Mr. Angelo Gomez.
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
What awful comments? He just said he wanted to keep out the criminals and illegals, not the good legal people from Mexico.
7 years ago
Reply to
skipsart
Trump also said only a temp ban on muslims until we can screen them properly. This is a wise move the same as with controlling the southern border.
http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Israel-Uncensored/Refugee-or-Infiltrator-Whos-to-Say-436959
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
People can read what they want but trump never dissed mexican people who come here legally.
7 years ago
Reply to
Wolfgang Stahl
I’m happy to see hard working, honest Latino Americans are for Trump. I’m proud to have these citizens in my country and not the welfare illegal crowd who have no allegiance to my once great country.
7 years ago
VOTE FOR THE DONALD ! 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27p0SpUt1Bw
7 years ago
Reply to
Wolfgang Stahl
I always had a connection with Asians. I like the people, culture and their food.
7 years ago
Iranian nukes …coming to a city near you … courtesy of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton…..within 1 year if not sooner …
7 years ago
Reply to
Robert Bayer
Hopefully the nukes will be coming to the District of Criminals first.
7 years ago
then Kirby lies when he says he can’t find out who was responsible. lies continue
7 years ago
If the traitorous scumbags that constitute the present US federal government have been caught lying once, how many times haven’t they been caught?
7 years ago
Who is being held accountable?? Oh wait, i forgot in the 0dousche admin, NOBODY gets held accountable, lol
7 years ago
obunghole needs to have his fingers broken.
7 years ago
It’s OK. It is just his mired-in-the-muck legacy on which he is working and only has six more months to further trash.
Vote Trump and make America great again!
7 years ago
That picture says it all. The only thing missing is the fly on his nose.
7 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Its the story of the media again that seems somehow to find stories about trump from eating a taco salad to the coming up short by 500,000 promised to charity (approximately)despite actually giving 5.5 million to veterans charities (with no overhead) despite no time line set while ignoring the hill-bill-ary hound scandals. Meanwhile the queen of email and colonel sanders gave pittance if anything comparably to veterans except lip-service. The traitor in chief certainly never gave them anything plus he hides whatever the hell he wants including his so-called college background (if there really was one) and associates with disreputable people who call the american voters stupid with callous disregard plus he regularly ridicules republicans for telling the truth about his evil regime.
7 years ago
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER Nixon’s 18 missing minutes of White House Recordings and how it caused Senate Investigations until his Office Secretary of many years admitted she may have pressed the wrong button when leaving the room?
This however is a tacit admission of a crime Admiral Kirby. Destruction of Government property and destruction of the Public Record and both crimes have Sentences. Burglar Berger found out that he could face 10 years and $50k fine for stealing one of a kind records from the Public Record for the Clinton’s again at NARA in DC. Kirby don’t try to pull the wool over the publics eyes that the Feds recognize a crime but have no punishment for it.
7 years ago
Dear Sheikh Hussein: Take that middle finger and – well – (statement deleted)
7 years ago
I never saw a middle finger used for musing.
7 years ago
So this is what transparency looks like in the Obama administration.
7 years ago
This is truly amazing that there needs to be a “rules made as you go” policy for things like this that are not planned for but obvious breeches in ethical conduct and blatant cover ups ignoring the public’s right to be protected by its leaders. Can anyone really be surprised by this traitorous administration is the question.
