State Dept. admits, it can’t tell an edit from a glitch

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A State Department spokesman insisted on Thursday that neither he nor anyone else in the department could tell the difference between an intentional edit that removed several minutes of a 2013 press briefing video, and a “glitch.”

State immediately decided the missing video was the result of a “glitch,” even though it looked more like an edit that was made to remove a part of the briefing that also quickly signified some time had passed.

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