State Department now refusing all questions on Libyan violence
During a Friday afternoon press conference, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland announced
that the agency will no longer answer any further questions about the
attack in Benghazi which took the lives of Ambassador Christopher
Stevens and three other embassy staff members.
Nuland said: "I'm going to frustrate all of you, infinitely, by telling you that now that we have an open FBI investigation on the death of these four Americans, we are not going to be in a position to talk at all about what the U.S. government may or may not be learning about how any of this this happened -- not who they were, not how it happened, not what happened to Ambassador Stevens, not any of it -- until the Justice Department is ready to talk about the investigation that's its got."
"So I'm going to send to the FBI for those kinds of questions and they're probably not going to talk to you about it," she added.
On Friday, it was also reported that the FBI will delay their investigation, until the violence in Libya calms down.
Of course, this was not the first time the spokeswoman has "frustrated" reporters...
In March, Nuland refused to answer whether or not the Obama administration considers the city of Jerusalem to even be part of Israel, after an official State Department press release seemed to imply that the holy city of Jerusalem did not actually belong to that country.
Nuland said: "I'm going to frustrate all of you, infinitely, by telling you that now that we have an open FBI investigation on the death of these four Americans, we are not going to be in a position to talk at all about what the U.S. government may or may not be learning about how any of this this happened -- not who they were, not how it happened, not what happened to Ambassador Stevens, not any of it -- until the Justice Department is ready to talk about the investigation that's its got."
"So I'm going to send to the FBI for those kinds of questions and they're probably not going to talk to you about it," she added.
On Friday, it was also reported that the FBI will delay their investigation, until the violence in Libya calms down.
Of course, this was not the first time the spokeswoman has "frustrated" reporters...
In March, Nuland refused to answer whether or not the Obama administration considers the city of Jerusalem to even be part of Israel, after an official State Department press release seemed to imply that the holy city of Jerusalem did not actually belong to that country.
"We are not going to prejudge the outcome of those
negotiations, including the final status of Jerusalem...Our policy with
regard to Jerusalem is that it has to be solved through negotiations.
That's all I have to say on this issue," Nuland told reporters.
The Washington Free Beacon
reported that the State Department later "altered" the communication to
"erase the fact that it had referred to Israel and Jerusalem as
separate entities."
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