"Fuck the White House Correspondents' dinner" [View all]

[wyldwolf]

On p. 158 of the new book by former CIA #2 Michael Morrell, a book titled The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Against Terrorism From Al Qaeda to ISIS. It is in the context of the planning and decision making leading up to the raid on Abbottabad that got Bin Laden. The original raid was planned for the night of April 30, when it would be pitch black in Pakistan. Here is the paragraph in question:

But there was a problem with the thirtieth. Someone mentioned that Saturday, April 30, was the night of the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner - where the president was expected to speak. How would it look, they asked, if the president was at a black-tie dinner joking around with a bunch of reporters in the beautiful Hilton Hotel ballroom in Washington, D.C., while a group of Americans were dying on a failed mission in Pakistan? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shot down that concern with a well-placed response. "Fuck the White House Correspondents' dinner," she said. "Heaven help us if we ever make an important operational decision like this based on some political event."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/24/1387344/-An-image-of-Hillary-Clinton-that-might-surprise-you?detail=emailclassic#