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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some leakage will occur by the senators themselves, don’t you worry.
Obviously there’s nowhere within the confines of the Capitol Building which can be secured for such a briefing. And making that point is a genuinely clever political move by the administration. Still playing Three Dimensional Chess against professional politicians accustomed to winning at Checkers.
Uh, no. More like 'Here is what we are going to do.'
That’s funny. I see you changed your tag line = true + dork factor...
“He will explain China’s position and any communications/agreements made with them about NK.”
And when the Chinese will cross the Yalu ...
I believe there are SCIF rooms within the Capital but the Executive Branch can control this one in the EOB.
Thays puts their little phones and cameras, in the little cubbies and thays stands in line to get them back at the end. No tablets, ipads or laptops either.
Reagan said that he didn’t care who got the credit as long as what he wanted got done. One of the best bosses I ever had practiced this. Lots of great things got done.
Oh, when did the ongoing one end?
They do as I understand it have secured briefing rooms in the Capitol Building. Trump hosted the UN Security Council in an equally unconventional way this week as well.
I am thinking that his long experience negotiating business deals has made him comfortable with the psychological advantage in hosting meetings at his, instead of the other party’s, location. Kind of a way of giving him a one up.
I’m wondering if that’s what he’s up to.
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