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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