The White House confirmed the delay in their initial press statement, released the day of the attack.
In it they say Obama was brifed at 9-9:30am Hawaii time, the plane landed in Detroit at 1:00pm Est, however that was different from original reports directly from the White House.
Another report was the same spokesperson who put out the press release said that day it was 3 hours; this was prior to the press release (which came out incidently after the WaPo reported 3 hours and this thread went up).
Basically there has been a lot of ass covering with this.
Greta is going with a 3 hour delay in her reports.
Do you have evidence of this or do you simply have evidence that the initial report was incorrect and that they later corrected it without drawing attention to their earlier mistake?
Occams Razor says to go with the explanation that is simplest and doesn't rely on a conspiracy.
Plane lands about 1 pm (I think FOX reported 12:51 pm) which was about 8 am Honolulu time. Early reports say Obama was briefed between 9-9:30 am. The fact that our sharp poster didn't catch the time zone differences should go a long way in showing that maybe the original reporter didn't catch it either and that is what WaPo corrected? Funny, too, that one of the freepers who excoriated me also admitted that there was info that Obama was notified even before the plane landed and that in her opinion the facts were muddled.
A 60 minute time frame to gather enough facts to brief the president without embarrassing one's self seems pretty reasonable....or do we expect people to feed live, unfiltered, instantaneous streams of current events to him without investigation and verification?
Brytani, the story you posted showed that it only took an hour for obama to get a briefing. That really isn't a lot of time.