Press Secretary Gibbs Stands Behind His Man: Being Politically Correct
By Susan Thompson on December 15, 2010, 12:58 pm
Good afternoon. Let’s — let me do a quick readout from the President’s Afghanistan meeting — Pakistan meeting this morning. President Obama met for nearly two hours with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan. At the beginning of the meeting, President Obama and Secretary Clinton reaffirmed the great debt that the administration…
Defending His Boss
Mr. Gibbs added: “I think he has worked extremely hard, and I think he would tell you that even when, in the midst of the tax agreement and the start deal and the other things that accumulate, even where he once might have found some comfort in that, he’s pushed it away.”
National Incident Command
The powers vested in me are not the same as those at the National Incident Command. I’m going to let them make the final announcements on that. I think what Admiral Allen might have — I did not see what he specifically said that you just talked about. There has been — and I said this earlier — at each of the big points along the way, before different operations — static kill, top kill, the sealing cap, what have you — have taken place, there has been a robust and vigorous discussion with the scientific team, largely headed by Secretary Chu, to evaluate each of the steps that we’re taking. Because obviously doing no harm to the situation that we have now is tremendously important. So I know that there were meetings going on today to evaluate a whole range of scientific data around the well, the integrity of the well, and a whole host of features.
National Security
“This is a new low in putting political stunts ahead of our national security, and it is exactly the kind of Washington game-playing that the American people are sick of,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement.
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