Today the State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted an official deliberately cut several minutes of tape from a 2013 news briefing dealing with U.S.-Iranian nuclear questions.
The Deletion – In a December 2nd 2013 press briefing, Fox reporter James Rosen asked Jen Psaki about the State Department’s denial of secret talks between Washington and Tehran. Those discussions had been periodically occurring, yet denied.  Psaki stated:  “There are times where diplomacy needs privacy.”
Rosen discussed the administration lies three weeks ago:


At the end of the video segment Rosen discusses how the State Dept removed his questioning on the video. The state department fired back that it was “a glitch”. However, today Kirby admitted it was intentionally and deliberately done.
(Via Washington Examiner)  […] 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.”
Kirby insisted that the person who made the edit only remembers that he or she got a call from someone at the State Department, who was passing on a request from the departments’ Public Affairs Bureau. But he said the person who received the call didn’t remember who the caller was, and doesn’t know who in that bureau made the request.
nothing to see here

Move along, move along,… Nothing to See Here:

[…] “To my surprise, the Bureau of Public Affairs did not have in place any rules governing this type of action,” Kirby said. “Therefore, we are taking immediate steps to craft appropriate protocols on this issue, as we believe that 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.”

In other words no-one will be held accountable for the lack of transparency at the State Department’s office of Transparency and Accountability.
Nuf said….
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