State Dept: ‘This Wasn’t a Technical Glitch; This Was a Deliberate Request to Excise Video’

‘My focus is going to be on the future and making sure that we have the right rules in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again’

KIRBY: "We did learn quite a bit, right? We learned that there was a deliberate request – that this wasn’t a technical glitch; this was a deliberate request to excise video. And as I said, I – and I said it this morning to the staff: I don’t find that to be an appropriate step to take. So again, my focus is going to be on the future and making sure that we have the right rules in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again."

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