Posted on 04/25/2017 9:41:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The White House announced Monday that it would host an unusual private briefing on North Korea for the entire Senate, prompting questions from lawmakers about whether the Trump administration intends to use the event as a photo op ahead of its 100-day mark.
Press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that the lawmakers would be briefed Wednesday by several senior administration officials, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. He emphasized that the meeting plan had been convened by Senate leadership and that the White House was serving “as the location.”
Yet the White House setting perplexed lawmakers who have grown accustomed to such briefings taking place in a secure location on Capitol Hill, where there is more room to handle such a large group.
Past administrations have often held briefings for smaller groups of about two dozen or fewer lawmakers in the White House Situation Room. But they have traditionally sent high-level aides to Capitol Hill to hold discussions with larger groups in secure underground locations.
A senior Trump administration official said the meeting with senators will take place in the auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the building next to the White House that houses most of the National Security Council. The auditorium will be temporarily turned into a “sensitive compartmented information facility,” or SCIF, which is the term for a room where sensitive national security information can be shared, the official said....
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We’re gonna need a bigger scif.
Staffers have hurt feelings because this impacts their ability to leak classified data.
This had better be about an impending NK war...because if it is a photo op he is going to get skewered
Yeah. The entire Senate is being brought to the White House for a photo op. Right. What vain clown said this?
Note who leaked the “concern” to the Washington Post, not “Senators” but Senate staffers, and it is on the staffs of many Congress critters where many deep-staters professionally reside.
Congressional staffers are the lowest of the low
Starting to think China will get all the ‘credit’ for removing Kim... tonight?
what’s the over/under on when the info leaks?
When he doesn’t consult Congress, the media lambastes him, when he does consult Congress, the media lambastes him...
I’m seeing a pattern.
Wait until they are told they have to put their cell phones, smart watches cameras and any recording devices into a bucket that stays out side.
Then, their left wing aides can’t come into the Scif.
Hopefully,they will have to sign a non disclosure agreement re anything they see or hear at this meeting.
I imagine the reason for the meeting was to leak information.
Well...with these many people in a classified briefing...you can bet it won’t take long until the details are leaked out...which may be what Trump is counting on.
In DC, the left says “perplexed” to signal an oddity with a conservative or GOP action. They use it to mock or denigrate.
The Washington Post is in mourning.
You have to understand that.
Besides, it’s good for a laugh.
Wasn’t Dick “The Turban” Durbin a staffer for Paul Simon?
He will say, "based on the information I've just given to you, I'd like your advice on our next moves."
I wonder if he could be preparing to ask Congress to declare war.
He spoke several times during the campaign about the need to declare war on our enemies rather than just attacking without congressional approval.
I hope Congressional staffers are not invited. I am convinced they are the source of many leaks and misinformation.
Your comment prompted me to repost this. BTW, this also applies to the boys and girls on the HOUSE side!
What is to be done about the HILL RATS? These are the allegedly “professional” staffers who are so named because after the election their current boss loses, they scurry like rats to a new member – ANY MEMBER (his politics frequently don’t matter) – just to remain close to the power. Most are flaming liberals and, after the “experienced” staffer shows the new guy where the john is, because they have been up there for decades, far too many of these new members rely on them for how to vote and get along in the thoroughly corrupt system of “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” that has caused the mess in which we now find ourselves.
IT GETS WORSE!
Let’s say the new guy needs an “expert” on tax policy. Well, son-of-a-gun, the professional staffer JUST HAPPENS to have a college chum who works at the IRS! Need an “expert” on education policy. Darned if that secretary he just hired doesn’t just have an old teacher friend who works over at the Department of Education!
NOW YOU KNOW WHY THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME – ESPECIALLY IN MALFUNCTION JUNCTION.
Looks like we will also need TENURE LIMITS on the Hill Rats with stiff penalties for breaking the rules!
I recently heard Gingrich tell Hannity that—horrors — the alleged Health Care Bill was almost certainly written at 3 am by 25 year-old liberal staffers, groggy on beer and pizza. Not sure why that was so shocking. HELL, that’s how nearly ALL the so-called legislation has been done up there for decades. It’s why there are two things one should never watch being made: SAUSAGE AND LAWS.
One of the KEY THINGS we all need to do BEFORE we get behind a new candidate to replace the 8 term retread who has sold us out nearly every term up there is to INSIST THAT HE DRAW HIS KEY STAFFERS FROM LOCAL FOLKS WHO MAY STILL HAVE A GRASP ON REALITY OUT HERE IN FLYOVER COUNTRY — THEN HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE ON THAT PLEDGE — OR REPLACE HIM NEXT TIME!
Sadly, it’s the ONLY WAY THINGS WILL CHANGE UP THERE!!
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