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In reply to the discussion: State Department Brief Today on Snowden. Unbelievable [View all]karynnj
(59,498 posts)positions and actions. Look at the long questions and the fact that he does not let her answer for more than 5 words.
I have watched press conferences, Senate hearings, and Sunday talk shows for over 40 years. The most effective are when the questioner asks a clear, concise question and allows the responder the time to answer the question - and then after the answer follows up with crisp, short questions on the parts of the question ignored.
Here, you have a reporter who is interested ONLY in his questions. I doubt there was ANYTHING the spokeswoman could have said that would have caused him to reconsider his preconceived opinion. He was as open to honest answers as Darrell Issa usually is on his committees. (As to whether there would have been full, honest answers, we don't know - he never gave her the chance to answer.)