The Obama administration official who ordered the edit of a 2013 briefing exchange between Fox News reporter James Rosen and a State Department spokeswoman specifically mentioned the "Fox network reporter" in their request, as revealed by the agency's internal investigation.

Fox News reports:

"The technician did not recall a reason being given for the edit request," the report stated, "but did believe that the requester had mentioned in the course of the call a Fox network reporter and Iran." The report continued: "The technician indicated that the requester may also have provided the start and end times for an edit."

The implicit admission by then-spokeswoman Jen Psaki to Rosen that the State Department sometimes has to mislead the public to protect secret negotiations in December 2013 was excised from the official video of the briefing. Rosen had previously been told by spokeswoman Victoria Nuland earlier in 2013 that the U.S. was not engaged in bilateral talks with Iran over what would become the nuclear deal, when in fact such discussions had been going on for months.

Current State Department spokesman John Kirby promised an investigation when the purposeful edit came to light in June. He revealed inconclusive findings last week, which included his claim that there was "no evidence" the exchange was excised to conceal information from the public. He also repeated an earlier possibility that the edit was done because of a "glitch," although Rosen pointed out the coincidence of that happening to that specific admission from the government.

However, Fox News reported Monday the fact that the person who ordered the edit mentioned the "Fox network reporter" shows strong evidence it was indeed a purposeful effort to omit Psaki’s statements from the record: