The scumbag outfit that is the post-American State Department

Foggy Bottom comes clean on the James Rosen-Jen Psaki exchange at the 2013 presser:

An official within the State Department ordered the editing of a damning portion of video from a Dec. 2013 daily press briefing discussing negotiations between the Obama administration and Iran, an agency spokesman acknowledged on Wednesday.

State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters that a public affairs official placed a phone call on Dec. 3, 2013, the same day as the daily press briefing, ordering the removal of video showing Fox News reporter James Rosen asking then-State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki whether anyone inside the Obama administration has misled the American public about the Iran negotiations.

At a press briefing in 2012, Rosen had asked Psaki’s predecessor, Victoria Nuland, whether nuclear negotiations with Iran were being held. Nuland said they were not. Psaki provided a cryptic answer in response to Rosen’s question.

“James, I think there are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. This is a good example of that,” she said. 

So that the Most Equal Comrade, Secretary Global Test and Wendy Sherman could convince themselves that they were visionaries standing astride human history ushering in an era of unicorns and rainbows, this public-affairs official was a willing accomplice in the increase of the likelihood that a major American city will get incinerated. How does such a creature sleep at night?