‘Categorically False’: State Dep’t Denies Report of Middle East Envoy’s Anti-Israel Tirade

State Dept on Defense Over Free Beacon Report (Washington Free Beacon)

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was put on the defensive Monday over a Washington Free Beacon report that Middle East envoy Martin Indyk was overheard going on a “tirade” against Israel and blaming the Jewish state for the collapse of peace talks with the Palestinians.

The Free Beacon‘s Adam Kredo reported:

Middle East envoy Martin Indyk was overheard at an upscale Washington, D.C., bar bashing Israel and fully blaming it for the recent failure of peace talks with the Palestinians, according to an individual who overheard the conversation and described it as a surprising and “nasty” 30-minute-long tirade against the Jewish state.