Par for the course in this administration.

The State Department today admitted that a missing portion of a State Department daily briefing video did not disappear because of a technical error, as the department has maintained, but was intentionally deleted.

“A specific request was made to excise that portion of the briefing,” State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted Wednesday.  State had previously said it was deleted accidentally, because of a “glitch.” Once the deletion was noticed by reporters, the deleted portion was reinserted.