BUSTED: Rachel Maddow reports that State Dept lied and faked photo of Tillerson in Afghanistan

[kpete]

U.S. Secretary of State and Afghan Pres. Ashraf Ghani at Bagram Air Base (Screen capture)


Rachel Maddow opened her Tuesday show with the news, which was reported by the BBC after observers noticed discrepancies in different version of the photo — which was actually taken at a U.S. military installation.

“The State Department initially tried to get away with saying that this meeting between Rex Tillerson on the left and Ashraf Ghani on the right,” Maddow said, “took place in the capital city of Kabul. It did not. They did not meet in Kabul. They met, rather, inside the perimeter of a U.S. military base at Bagram.”

“The problem is that the meeting was not in Kabul, but in a windowless room in Bagram, the heavily fortified American military base a 90-minute drive away,” said The New York Times. “The misinformation, apparently meant to obscure the true venue, was betrayed by discrepancies in similar photographs released by the Americans and the Afghans.”

The State Department issued a correction on Tuesday, admitting it had faked the photo and lied about the meeting’s location and about Kabul being safe enough for the U.S. Secretary of State to openly visit.


https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/busted-rachel-maddow-reports-that-state-dept-lied-and-faked-photo-of-tillerson-in-afghanistan/

[brush]

1. It's gotten to the point where nothing coming out of this administration is believable.

A nest of liars.

Why lie about where the meeting was?

That's not even necessary.

[dalton99a]

2. We now have a government of fake news and disinformation

just like in Russia

[Fred Sanders]

7. You got that right. Complete with a timid mass media and a government media organ, Pravfox.

[safeinOhio]

3. Good reason to never buy what this

State Dept. is selling, ever again.

[spanone]

4. unfuckingbelievabe

The State Department issued a correction on Tuesday, admitting it had faked the photo and lied about the meeting’s location and about Kabul being safe enough for the

U.S. Secretary of State to openly visit.

[Achilleaze]

5. republicans lie about or fake everything

they are totally into Bearing False Witness. Sinful.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Maybe the problem is that Republicans come into government with such lack of respect for it,

that they only make it worse since the only things they have to guide them are misconceptions and personal agendas?