White House press room evacuated during briefing
Source: AFP via Yahoo
Journalists, including an AFP reporter, were escorted out as a security sweep was performed.
Outside the executive mansion, the north lawn area was also evacuated as staff and journalists were moved to a neighboring building.
No reason was immediately given for the evacuation.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-press-room-evacuated-during-briefing-182234568.html
fyi, local faux news FB page has comments already "evacuate everyone else and leave the president in there"
marym625
(17,997 posts)Even with dubya I would never have said anything close to what these cretins do about President Obama.
Disgusting
dgibby
(9,474 posts)They're back and giving Josh a royal grilling. Seems that the only people evacuated were the Press Corps. Josh went back to his office, only feet away from the briefing room, and while the members of the Press were out of the room, someone covered the cameras with newspaper. The room was swept for explosives.
Looks like the Press is smelling a rat. They want to know why the cameras were covered, why the rest of the complex wasn't evacuated, etc. MSNBC is reporting on it now.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)of course it had to be evacuated!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)"Sure. Blame it on the dog".
-Bo-
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)They gotta work on that dog's diet.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)And I for one am the type to call BS when so many things cannot be filmed these days due to the "post 9/11" hyper scary BS!!!
But in this case, as I currently understand it, seems like a good idea that we don't know how they sweep the White House for a fucking bomb scare...
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)Makes good sense to me.
dgibby
(9,474 posts)they covered the cameras AFTER they'd showed the police dogs sweeping the room. Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out! I used to have to help with these sweeps when I was in the Navy. It's exactly like they show it on these tv crime dramas. Nothing secret about it.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)dgibby
(9,474 posts)Turbineguy
(37,374 posts)"If you get caught, we lose a vote!"
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Except in this case the squirrel was carrying explosives.