"WH looking into broken embargo on POTUS trip"

[Clio the Leo]

White House officials are looking into how their embargo on the news of president’s trip to Afghanistan was broken this morning, leading to erroneous reports that he was in the country before he had actually arrived, POLITICO’s Carol E. Lee reports.

Lee was assigned to write the pool report for the trip, which was embargoed until the president actually touched down because of security concerns -- a common practice for presidential trips to war zones.

“It seems WH officials traveling with the president did not know that news outlets had been reporting that POTUS had arrived in Afghanistan before he had arrived, until AF1 was wheels down at Bagram,” Lee wrote in the latest pool report. “The erroneous reporting about POTUS being in Afghanistan when he was not is being looked into by the WH because of security concerns.”

Lee reported that Air Force One first touched down in Kabul at 8:35 p.m. local time, or 11: 05 a.m. on the East Coast, but the news of the president’s arrival in the country had already been reported at 10:49 a.m. ET by ABC News. CNN and MSNBC followed suit soon afterwards.

Because of technical problems, Lee was not able to file the pool report until 20 minutes after the plane had touched down, causing some confusion in the press cabin particularly after news began to filter in that the president’s trip was already being reported.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1210/WH_looking_into_broken_embargo_on_POTUS_trip.html

The time stamp on my thread bears this out. I posted at 11:05 .... and it had been a few mins since MSNBC had reported it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x541201

[Historic NY]

1. Great in harms way they release info..Who the fuck is running the circus?

[boppers]

2. Embargoes are fake news. I'm surprised they still exist.

"Hey, we want everybody to make a big deal of this at the same time!" = Propaganda.

[Democat]

3. When you don't have people's respect, why would they respect your rules?

Obama has shown that there are no consequences for going against him. In fact, when you do the opposite of what he supposedly wants then he will reward you, as he has done with the Republicans. Why would he expect anyone to care what rules he sets?

[jefferson_dem]

4. Good grief.

What a stretch. You reached realllllly far to cast that insult. This hate ... it has consumed you.

[Phx_Dem]

6. You are truly pathetic. And you're on the wrong forum. n/t

[Phx_Dem]

5. We can't trust the media anymore. Fox has proven that.

No wonder he ditches them occassionally. He should do it more often.

[CreekDog]

7. they don't even care if they put him in danger.

x(

[ProSense]

8. This is inside media BS dressed up by Politico as relevant

Some reporters are upset at ABC News for allegedly prematurely reporting, via Twitter and its website, President Barack Obama's surprise trip to Afghanistan.

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