Posted on 04/27/2017 3:40:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he boycotted a White House briefing on North Korea because he “did not want to be part of a photo opportunity.”
“What I did not want to be is part of a photo opportunity or a political effort on the part of the White House,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Wednesday.
In an unusual move, the White House invited all 100 senators to attend the briefing at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Sanders said such briefings are typically held at the Capitol in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) room, which is a specially and securely designed room for highly classified congressional briefings.
“These highly — supposedly — highly classified briefings always take place in what’s called the SCIF room in Congress, which is a very well-designed room to prevent any cybersecurity issues, with security issues in general."
Despite calling for bipartisan efforts to deal with North Korea, Sanders said he declined to be part of the White House “roadshow.”
“The issue of North Korea is enormously important, and we need bipartisan efforts to control North Korea’s very aggressive nuclear efforts, but I did not want to be part of a roadshow for the White House,” he said.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also called the briefing at the White House an “unusual setting,” adding that he didn't “want to read too much into this.”
The meeting came after the administration said it would take a hardline approach toward the increasingly hostile state amid rising tensions.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, along with other top administration officials, briefed the senators.
President Trump briefly joined the meeting.
What is in the water up there in Vermont?
Don’t you just love these assholes? They’re happy to collect paychecks... from money they’ve confiscated from US, and then have such high principles that THEY get to decide when or when not to work depending on if they think it’s a “photo op.”
Then again, Bernie had forty-something years practice not working, so I guess it’s second nature for the commie.
I heard he took his wife to the Soviet Union on their honeymoon. Think about that for a moment
Yeah, they’re his own kind. Goofy-arsed old fart.
How will you have a photo op when cameras are forbidden in a SCIF?
Sanders on skipping WH Korea briefing: ‘I did not want to be part of a photo op’
And have my Good Friend and Fellow Socialist Kim Jong Un see the pictures, The President of North Korea has already briefed me anyway.
I heard he took his wife to the Soviet Union on their honeymoon. Think about that for a moment
They went there to pay respects to Bernie’s Father, Joe Stalin.
They must have paid attention to the apparatchiks and learned how to get a second or third home or dacha.
The campaign is over.
He had no problem with Hillary’s photo ops with his tongue firmly planted in her backside.
“Sanders on skipping WH Korea briefing”
in two weeks he’ll be complaining that he wasn’t kept informed.
Waters is not a Senator.
Bernie the old “ socialist” just didn’t want to take a stand for or against the most murderous tyrant on the planet
( who he thinks is Donald Trump)
The Democrats whine to the press that they had to ride a bus to the White House. Simple solution - next time, only invite the Republicans.
Isn’t going before the press and saying I am skipping the meeting a photo op? Treasonous little prick.
What is in the water up there in Vermont?
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Communism.
Stay ignorant, Senator.
Perhaps you would have learned something or even had the opportunity to contribute to the discussion.
Honeymoon in the Soviet Union during the Cold War ..... prime honeymoon location? Not
When before has ANY professional politician wanted to miss a “photo op”????????
Most clamor and fight to get in front of a camera....
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