I'm not buying it unless it took him 3 hours to set up the nice cozy scenario since it's been reported he wasn't told for three hours at his normal briefing time. Who has time for carols when there's a fivesome (like really) to be played.
MSM is nothing but a WH mouthpiece. Conference call lasted less than 13 minutes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091226/ap_on_re_us/us_airliner_attack_obama_2
1 hr 30 mins ago
HONOLULU – President Barack Obama’s security teams are briefing the vacationing commander in chief on threats facing the United States, including what progress law enforcement officials are making in investigating a terror attack aboard a Detroit-bound airplane.
Obama on Saturday spoke with homeland security adviser John Brennan and a top National Security Council official, Denis McDonough. The group spoke at 6:20 a.m. local time in Hawaii. Obama’s motorcade left his rented vacation estate for the gym at 6:33 a.m.
White House spokesman Bill Burton says the president is continuing to monitor the situation.
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