Thiessen: White House doesn’t dispute my report on skipped meetings.--White House does AND mocks him
Thiessen's limp-legged victory lap
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/white-house-doesnt-dispute-my-report-on-skipped-meetings/2012/09/11/349f2292-fc1f-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_blog.html
aaaaaaaaaaaand the White House not only disputes it by MOCKS Theissen
Asked about the article Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the assertion that the president was playing hooky from his presidential daily briefings was "hilarious" :
MR. CARNEY: He gets it every day, okay? The President of the United States gets the presidential daily briefing every day. There is a document that he reads every day when he is not - well, he always reads it every day because he’s a voracious consumer of all of his briefing materials. And when he is physically here, most days he has a meeting in his office, the Oval one - (laughter) - with participants in - his national security team, including obviously Tom Donilon and others. He also has regular meetings with –
Q This is about the physical briefing from whoever is giving it versus the written briefing?
MR. CARNEY: This was a case of - I don't know how far I want to go here, but I believe if you compare our foreign policy record with the one that preceded this one, we’re comfortable with that comparison. And this President is very much steeped in the details of national security issues and the information that as President he received –
Q Do you believe this report was misleading –
MR. CARNEY: I believe the article written about it was amusing.
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/10/white-house-obama-not-skipping-intel-briefings/