Peter Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, during a tense news conference Wednesday, his first since taking the post. It was wrong.”Hoekstra made the remarks in question during a conference on terrorism hosted by the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center. The State Department distanced itself from Hoekstra’s remarks Thursday during a briefing in Washington but declined to call them inaccurate. “This is the Netherlands — you have to answer questions,” one reporter said during the tense meeting. “I have advised, as I’ve advised most people, that when reporters are in front of you, just as you are in front of me, that it’s always good to answer questions,” he said.

Source: Washington Post January 12, 2018 21:09 UTC