Ryan demands Obama investigate deceptive State Department edit

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House Speaker Paul Ryan wants the Obama administration to investigate who secretly pushed to edit a State Department video to remove a politically damaging comment made during a 2013 press conference.

“If they truly care about transparency, the administration should investigate who requested this selective editing and why,” Ryan, R-Wis., said Thursday in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner.

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