Because that's how important they think they are; they honestly believe if they don't tell us, it didn't happen.
Probably one of the ONLY things that I agree with Bill Kristol about is when he said this morning on Fox News that the White house press people are STUPID.
It is very possible that we are taking some covert operation somewhere in Afghanistan or the middle east and that Cheney is deliberately taking the heat to provide cover for an ongoing military operation.
In 1983 Reagan used the hostage taking at the Augusta National CC as a smokescreen for the final planning of the Grenada operation.
"Because that's how important they think they are; they honestly believe if they don't tell us, it didn't happen."
I will make a promise to all the press that if I am ever with them and they get injured, I will be very glad to call the WH press corp for them.
They better not want me to call an ambulance.