Buried in a Los Angeles Times report is this nugget:
In a sign of the tensions the movie has sparked, Los Angeles County officials said the U.S. State Department had asked them not to release copies of the film permits containing information about who organized the shoot. Obama administration officials also flagged the trailer to YouTube and asked the company to review whether it violated the website’s terms of service.
Emphasis added. The media are already trying to spin this in a way that is entirely unconvincing. Here’s MSNBC’s Chuck Todd on twitter:
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