Dylan Byers:
W.H. holds off-the-record Benghazi briefing
The White House held an off-the-record briefing with reporters on Friday afternoon to discuss recent revelations about the Benghazi investigation, sources familiar with the meeting tell POLITICO.
The meeting began around 12:45 p.m. and postponed the daily, on-the-record White House press briefing to 1:45 p.m. White House press secretary Jay Carney did not respond to a request for confirmation of the meeting.
The off-the-record session was announced to reporters in the wake of an ABC News report showing that White House and State Dept. officials were involved in revising the now-discredited CIA talking points about the attack on Benghazi.
Emails obtained by ABC News show that State Dept. spokesperson Victoria Nuland requested that the CIA scrub references to an Al Qaeda-linked group, which, Nuland told White House officials, “could be abused by members [of Congress] to beat up the State Department for not paying attention to warnings.”
“Here is what you are to tell the public.”
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Every reporter that attended that briefing should either report what was said (in detail) or resign.
This is a new low for the media.
Fucking ASSHATS!
MOTHERF88KING #@$%%**^&!!!!
The Crawdad Hole 
Looks like I’m gonna start drinking early today.
Was just thinking, how does one follow the Obama antics this closely and not be hammered, on Prozac, or both?
Hellifino
I’d like to see the name of the reporters who went along with “off the record”. Maybe one will leak ?
lol…just when you think it can’t get any more absurd and corrupt.
LOL, from the Politico comments:
He is assuming there are any “real journalists” left.
Steve Hayes is going to be on Megan Kelly show in a few minutes
That’s atrocious and unethical, especially for the so called “journalists” who have complied.
It almost seems illegal, too. I suppose the Prez could claim it is a nat’l security issue or something, but an off the record briefing to the press sure doesn’t feel constitutional.
Hey, they have to protect their sources, don’t they?
I am betting that is exactly the rationale: there is some security issue that will explain the whole thing but they can’t reveal it publicly. This way, they can shut the press up (even with the little that is being revealed) so there’s less blowback, and it will just go away.
Good on Digby. A few more posts like that and she might actually regain my respect. Obama is just Nixon with a “D” by his name.
From his testimony, it sounded like Hicks went through a period of non-employement, and then got the “desk job” demotion after he applied. So wasn’t he in reality “fired”?
In Japan if you fuck up as a business executive you don’t get fired. You are given a desk with nothing to do.
OT: http://dmnewsi.com/2013/05/10/paramedic-arrested-for-having-explosive-device-in-texas-town-rocked-by-blast/
If there turns out to be a connection, at least one cartoonist, and thousands of progressive assholes have some apologies to make. Not they ever will.
Being a Vile Prog means never having to say you’re sorry.
ROFLMAO
😆
Her fault for trusting him, despite what she knew about him. To paraphrase Maya Angelou, “When people show you who they really are, believe them.”
Just wtf is her weakness for lying abusive liars? It’s pathological.
No honor among thieves.
Just wtf is her weakness for lying abusive liars? It’s pathological.
It does seem so.
Well, look what happened when she tried to claim power on her own as a woman. The entire party (and half the country) turned on her. Palin too. Maybe she thinks she needs them to succeed at a high level. Has any other woman made it that far in the US? THAT is the real pathology.
Good point.
That is the real pathology, fif. Amen.
And a hallelujah chorus.
Oh, Amen to all that!
Amen
That’s hitting it head on.
rtweeted 😉
BREAKING: Transportation Department says 149 control towers at small airports will remain open. -SS
I signed many petitions and letters to Reps and Senators to keep those towers open.
Very disappointed to see both Warren and whathisname.. Lurch’s pinch hitter..temp appointed by Deval Patrick chose not to support funding for the towers.
Thanks, fake Senators.
I want Scott Brown back.
me too. 🙂
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/05/10/benghazi-a-smoking-gun/?singlepage=true
backtrack bunch warned on Sept 10 about protests on Sept 11
So, out this week. Did anything happen while I was gone?
Just the usual: cocaine, strippers, political rants.
A clown. A few really dumb trolls.
Nah, nuthin.
Strippers? Damn, I missed all the fun.
😆
Funny how when I’m in DC lots of shit happens.
Welcome back Dandy we missed you. 🙂
Who?
Gotta run. Let me know if Barack comes out looking high on choom.
carney blames bush for irs going after conservative groups
carney twisting and turning on talking point changes now blaming CIA
http://freebeacon.com/state-department-dodges-wont-say-who-leadership-refers-to-in-nulands-benghazi-emails/
not naming names
Oh yeah, I remember