{"id":28407,"date":"2016-06-02T07:07:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28407"},"modified":"2016-06-02T07:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:07:13","slug":"changing-history-as-it-occurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28407","title":{"rendered":"Changing History As It Occurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Paul Mirengoff<\/a> at Power Line<\/a> posted an article about the recent editing of a State Department<\/a> press briefing on December 2, 2013. A question asked by Fox News reporter<\/a> James Rosen<\/a> was edited out of the archived video of the briefing.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The deleted segment of the briefing featured Fox News reporter James Rosen asking<\/a> then-State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki<\/a> whether the Obama administration<\/a> had lied about having secret talks with Iran<\/a> in 2011. Psaki essentially admitted that it had.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rosen inquired, \u201cIs it the policy of the State Department, where the preservation or the secrecy of secret negotiations is concerned, to lie in order to achieve that goal?\u201d Psaki responded, \u201cJames, I think there are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. This is a good example of that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The start date of the Iran nuclear negotiations is back in the spotlight because of a New York Times Magazine piece<\/a> in which Ben Rhodes<\/a> admitted that the Obama administration \u201clargely manufactured\u201d a narrative for the Iran deal in order to garner support for it. A key element of the manufactured narrative was that negotiations began in 2013 with the election of a \u201cmoderate\u201d Iranian president<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It looks like the State Department tried, by editing the video, to cover up the administration\u2019s lie about when Iran negotiations commenced (together with the admission that it is willing to lie), and then lied again by claiming that the cover up was the product of a glitch.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember, this video is supposed to be an accurate archived record of American history. The State Department chose to edit it to rewrite a portion of history. I thought only Communist countries did that.<\/p>\n

The article explains the consequences for the editing of the video:<\/p>\n

Who requested the scrubbing? The State Department claims not to know. It says that officials \u201ctried\u201d to determine who ordered the edit, \u201cbut it was three years ago and the individual who took the call [to edit the tape] just simply doesn\u2019t have a better memory of it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jen Psaki, who made the admission that needed to be deleted, is an obvious suspect. She denies responsibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Will the State Department launch an investigation? No it will not. Current spokesperson John Kirby says:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

There were no rules governing this sort of action in the past, so I find no reason to press forward with a more formal or deeper investigation. What matters to me \u2014 and I take it seriously \u2014 is our commitment to transparency and disclosure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Obama State Department just can\u2019t stop lying.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been known to complain about the mainstream media slanting the news or lying to Americans. Now we have evidence that the government is lying to us. It’s time for a new government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Paul Mirengoff at Power Line posted an article about the recent editing of a State Department press briefing on December 2, 2013. A question asked by Fox News reporter James Rosen was edited out of the archived video of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,10033,246,5578,10034,135,698,2861],"class_list":["post-28407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-ben-rhodes-speechwriter","tag-iran","tag-james-rosen","tag-jen-psaki","tag-obama-administration","tag-president-of-iran","tag-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28408,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28407\/revisions\/28408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}