The White House messaging on the Flight 253 affair stands in stark contrast to its handling of the massacre at Ft. Hood, Texas in which Obama, on the day after the killings, cautioned the public against “jumping to conclusions” about the murders of 13 people, and then, a day later, declared that “we cannot fully know” accused killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s motives. Now, the administration is openly using the T-word.
But it appears the White House’s press outreach has been more extensive than its outreach to actual officials in the government. “They’re keeping information very tight, in terms of not giving it to Congress,” says Republican Rep. Peter King, who has been on television frequently in the hours since the incident. “There are not too many details coming out.”
In his appearances, King, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, has been described as having been “briefed” on the issue. It turns out he has been briefed, but not by the administration. “When I say ‘briefing,’ these are people on my staff who are in contact with people in the government agencies,” King says. So far, King has had just one contact with the administration: a phone call from Homeland Security deputy secretary Jane Holl Lute, who told him about airport security measures. Beyond that, nothing. “As far as all the other details I’ve gotten, they came from sources that we have in the government,” King says. “I understand the Democrats are getting the same treatment, so it’s not a partisan thing.
Well....geee....did he take a dump today too?
A Tempest in a Teacup? asks Howard Kurtz. “Twitter is all over Northwest Airlines attack, holiday or not. Good job. If the airline attack had worked, it would dominate for weeks. Since the passengers foiled it, I wonder if it will be a 24-hour story.”
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AMAZING HOW THERE IS AN ARMY OFJOURNALISTS OUT THERE!! and yet NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS BEING REPORTED!!
OBOZO MUST BE A REAL DOG!
Why doesn’t he vacation in Chicago? He really doesn’t have ties to Hawaii anymore. What keeps him out of Chicago, where he owns his house.
Question for Reporters to Ask OBOZO!:
Now will Your Secretary of Homeland Security finally acknowledge these are ACTS OF TERRROR BY MUSLIM TERRORISTS??
or are You going to allow the Dangerous IDIOT to refer to them still as ridiculously sounding and demeaning “ACTS of Man-Made Disasters?”
Does anyone of them have the Gonads to ask this most important question?
BUP
BTTT! Thanks for the links, kcvl. Thanks to all posters.
I just want to add, that over at www.HillBuzz.org they have a well researched thread up on where every former President, since Nixon, has spent their ‘in-office’ Christmases.
The Reagans ALWAYS spent the holiday at the White House (so that SS and other staff could be with their families—yes Reagon was THAT thughtful).
GHWB and GWB spent their collective twelve Christmases in office at Camp David.
The Clintons went to a ‘borrowed’ from a friend FL home once; the Fords went to the place they OWNED in Vail; Carters to Plains, GA (again they stayed on their own property); and Nixon hung out, at his friend BeBe Rebozo’s place (ie no rent) in FL.
Amazingly, only Lord Obama has felt the need to drain the federal coffers for THREE rented beachfront mansions.
And then hangs out the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign (the Detroit incident on Christmas Eve happened at 6:51a.m. Hawaii time...Barry wasn’t ‘told’ til three hours later).
Beauty sleep?!? Or dosent give a damn?!?
Another attempted attack on America and no one from the administration or the cabinet has seen fit to brief the American people - many of whom are traveling this Christmas weekend. Napolitano should be fired. Her and her overseas contingency operation. What a bunch of incompetents are running this country.
Obama’s high on Hope and jacked up on dope.
I thought the President’s speech to the nation was inspiring and reassuring.
His involvement in making sure we are safe from islamic terrorists is so deep that we can be assured we are all safe.
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OK
the man does not go to church, the family does not do presents infact nothing to do with Christmas and then we get attacked and yet nothing.
WTH is going on after he is not informed right away, where the hell was he?
What getting high, at the mosque drunk for heavens sake will someone get a grip and find out