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State Dept admits deleting footage admitting deception on Iran nuke deal

Jun 2, 2016 6:55 am By Robert Spencer

We have already seen that the Obama administration sold the nuke deal to the American people by lying. This is just more evidence of this lies this rogue administration has propagated.

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“State Department admits briefing footage on Iran deal intentionally deleted,” Fox News, June 1, 2016 (thanks to Steve):

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.

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.”

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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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Featured, Iran Tagged With: Jen Psaki, John Kirby


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  1. mortimer says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 7:10 am

    While making deals is always a delicate backroom negotiation, the US is a very democratic republic and voters have the final say in ratifying a deal. Without proper information about the deal, American voters cannot informer Congressmen how to vote on the Iran treaty. Obama’s people seem so hell-bent on a deal (for the sake of appearing to be successful) that they are prepared to promote a bad deal by deceiving the voters about it. It is apparent that Iran is seizing the opportunity presented by the US overeagerness for a deal by trying to humiliate the US even before the deal is finalized. The Obama administration is now trying to let the people down slowly so their overeagerness and lack of judgment is not so visible. The two unwinnable situations are 1) dealing with a powerhungry dictatorship and 2) dealing with a Sharia government that is concerned with the optics of Islamic supremacism.

    From the inception of Obama’s first presidential campaign, answers were not forthcoming…even a birth certificate or a baptismal certificate were mysteriously not available. In an hysterical atmosphere of diversity, tokenism and post-modern disdain for facts, Obama came to power dragging former regime elements of the Clintons. Everything the Obama administration is doing now is for the purpose of electing Hillary.

    • Bamaguje says

      Jun 2, 2016 at 9:41 am

      Obama administration is the “most transparent in history.”
      Never mind that he repeatedly lied to Americans about Obamacare.
      Lied about his treasonous Iran deal.
      Lied about having Israel’s back.
      Lied about supporting traditional marriage and opposing gay marriage.
      Acknowledged he had no powers of amnesty, but went ahead to do it anyway.
      Barry will probably go down as the most dishonest president in history.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/16/has-obama-delivered-the-most-transparent-administration-in-history/

      http://www.christianpost.com/news/obama-lied-about-supporting-traditional-marriage-in-2008-former-advisor-david-axelrod-reveals-in-new-book-133876/

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 7:26 am

    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.”

    Right, that’s why they called it a “glitch”…

  3. Joanne Smith says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 7:34 am

    Is video a legal record under the Freedom of Information Act? Aren’t there laws prohibiting tampering with public record? The fact that the State Department posted an edited version of a press conference on its official website is further proof of a corrupt administration.

    Can U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen subject all State department employees to yearly ethics classes – like he just did to all Dept of Justice attorneys involved in Obama’s executive orders immigration lawsuit for being “intentionally deceptive”?

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/judge-orders-ethics-classes-for-deceptive-doj-attorneys/article/2591815

    Too bad Judge Hanen couldn’t disbar all of the DOJ attorneys.

  4. Samer Ibrahim says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 7:56 am

    Who cares in America? The majority of the American people are politically ignorant, otherwise they would have elected Hussein Obama for a second term.

  5. 7%Solution says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 8:33 am

    Yes, the “most transparent” administration in history is at it again (transparent in their attempts to subvert the truth, that is). Indeed, they also claimed a “glitch” was responsible for a reference to Islamist terrorism by French president Hollande when our president met with him several weeks ago. Anyone interested can check out David Wood’s video on it from early April.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 9:41 am

    The Nixon administration was JV league in comparison.
    Why are these Obama administration criminals still roaming free?

    • Guest says

      Jun 2, 2016 at 3:01 pm

      Because there are so few courageous people to be found in the military, Secret Service, and so on.

  7. wtd says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 10:50 am

    Related:
    HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias
    #1 Misleading Terminology 6:20
    #2 Imbalanced Reporting 4:44
    #3 Opinions disguised as news 6:48

  8. Nicky says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 10:53 am

    This Obama Regime should be held accountable for treason to the country

  9. Guest says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 1:23 pm

    Maybe now Obama’s approval ratings will plummet again. Through mysterious circumstances his approval ratings are currently in the fifties.

  10. Face_The_Truth says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    The above thread posted by Jihad Watch website is just useless information at the core.

    Jihad Watch website simply cannot live with fact that Iranians have been armed with nuclear weapons since Egyptian Muhammad Mustafa al’Baradei was the Director General of the I.A.E.A.

    Jihad Watch website owners are accustomed to live in a world where America can have nukes, but Russia shouldn’t and the Jewish State of Israel can have nuclear bombs, but the Islamic Republic of Iran must not.

    Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Javad Zarif Khonsari’s prime argument to the P5+1 countries was Iranians never launched a military aggression against its neighbors in the history of Middle East whereas the Jewish State of Israel has always been a military aggressor in Middle East and, at the same time, the Jewish State of Israel possesses hundreds of extremely high-quality nuclear weapons to incinerate the entire Middle East many times over.

    His excellency Javad Zarif Khonsari has and, is famous for, his very good sense of humor that makes everyone sitting around the negotiating table laugh out loud, which is unlike many other high profile diplomats who usually present cotton-dry demeanor during high-stake multi-government negotiation deals.

    Jihad Watch website owners are constantly brooding over the signed European-American nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran when the horses have already left the barn!

    Hardcore Iranians did not want the European-American nuclear deal; hardcore Shi’ite Ayat’Allahs wanted to move on to the next phase of testing one nuclear device after another if the European-American nuclear deal failed, which would have culminated in Saudi Arabia and Turkey immediately acquiring nuclear weapons of mass destruction from the financially and economically bankrupt Islamic State of Pakistan.

    Jihad Watch website owners are apparently like the #NeverTrumpers who cannot and will not accept the reality that businessman Donald J. Trump is the next Republican president of the U.S.A.

    On a side note, I have learned that American SOS His excellency John Forbes Kerry’s physician daughter has married an Iranian-American faithful Muslim man and converted to Islam.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Jun 2, 2016 at 8:21 pm

      Americans came up with the atomic bomb first. It’s a shame that in the first few years they did not take advantage of the situation and force all the other nations in the world to surrender and submit to American rule or else be annihilated. (Some friendly nations could have been allowed to exist if they were willing to pay a moderate sum in tribute to the U.S.A.). But, no, that’s not what the U.S.A was or is all about. Who would even consider such a monstrous idea?

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 3, 2016 at 11:40 am

      You are a misinformed troll
      There is no such thing as an Iranian-American faithful Muslim man.
      Only full blood Allahu Akbar Arabs are true Muslims to the Arabic speaking Allah.

      All Khodafez-ers are just pretenders.

      • Face_The_Truth says

        Jun 3, 2016 at 11:59 am

        You may be right that I am misinformed about His Excellency John F. Kerry’s son-in-law.

        Who knows the son-in-law could be a Iranian-American faithful Buddhist too!!!

        If given an opportunity, I always advise young non-Muslim men and women NEVER to marry into a Muslim family.

        Here’s a LINK for you to read about something important.

        http://www.faithfreedom.org/the-permanently-misunderstood-muslims/

  11. mustapha crap says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 3:41 pm

    Face the Truth? shouldn’t you change that to Face the Taqiya instead, if you love the Islamic shithole of Iran so much why do you not move there instead of surrounding yourself with Infidels in the west?

    • Face_The_Truth says

      Jun 3, 2016 at 11:31 am

      Well, I am not a Muslim and my parents were not Muslims.

      So, why would I have to practice Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya?

      Plus, I know that my posts are never liked by anyone on this Jihad Watch website anyway.

  12. Sam says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    “State Dept admits deleting footage admitting deception on Iran nuke deal”

    “What difference does it make” as our future president Hillary would say.

    The worst part is: this lying and cheating by our government does not phase average American, That is what I still can not understand..

  13. David Darman says

    Jun 3, 2016 at 9:25 am

    What exactly was deleted from the State Dept briefing tape? It was mention that there were secret talks going on between Iran and the US. Nothing more sinister. Let’s not make mountains out of molehills. Keep your powder dry for serious govt shenanigans. Do not exaggerate the importance of non-events lest you lose credibility.

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