GIBBS: I’m not sure the president of the United States was notified, or understood about,
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GIBBS: Again, I tend not to question statute enforcement in attempting to reserve the nation’s chief safe. If they feel like they need a training exercise, I am not sure we are apt second suspect. Let’s comprehend namely the best I can tell there was reporting based above hearing to a police scanner that was not verified. And then it was ashore TV. And immediately we have raced behind to detect out that it is a training training. So it appears as if a lot of this might have been shirked.
Later, correspondents tried again.
GIBBS: Setting alongside the media scope? Can I do a point of personal privilege? If we set aside the medium coverage would you be inquiring me this question? . . .
The questioning continued:
“It’s unfortunate it escalated to this level,” said Coast Guard Vice Adm. John Currier. “What you’re seeing is the result of a natural training exercise such that while we have a menace or when we have a security issue in the citizen capital zone, all agencies can come attach beneath secure communications protocol and execute security operations quite professionally and successfully.”
GIBBS: Hopefully CNN ambition go. (Laughter.) That was on the disc,
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QUESTION: Does the commander in capital have an attitude on if or not the public ought have been informed that on the 9/11 eight-year anniversary there was a training exercise set to take place on the Potomac River in the countries capital?
[Updated beneath, with CNN's feedback.]
Robert Gibbs, the White House speaker, became a media analyst today, pummeling CNN hard for relying on a police scanner this morning to misreport a Coast Guard training exercise on the Potomac River. The incipient CNN report wrongly suggested that shots had been bombarded on the river and eminent that President Obama had just achieved speaking beside at the Pentagon, raising the feasibility of some arrange of murderer or gangster bombard. (To see a time line of CNN’s reporting, see here.)
CNN staff were monitoring law enforcement movement this a.m. given the 9/11 commemoration. After listening a U.S. Coast Guard radio displacement that a boat had gapped a security district on the Potomac River a short distance from the Pentagon where the President had just heeded a 9/11 anniversary etiquette, CNN contacted the Coast Guard public businesses bureau by the agency’s headquarters. The Coast Guard spokeswoman said she was unaware of any activity taking place on the Potomac River.
The full Coast Guard press loosen, explaining the accident, is here.
GIBBS: That’s a decision that is made at the Coast Guard.
It went on like this for a while. Gibbs did not give any ground, and declined assist the mind that the Coast Guard had done anything bad. The Coast Guard has also declined to apologize for the training exercise.
QUESTION: So do you feel that the exercise was appropriate?
QUESTION: On the exercise did you guys have advance advising?
GIBBS: Not that I’m aware of,
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QUESTION: On the training exercise, why doesn’t it rise to the class of the Air Force One photos, setting aside the media coverage?
QUESTION: So this is not going to be like the unfortunate episode with Air Force One [flyover of Manhattan for publicity photos] earlier? It’s not comparative to that?
GIBBS: I don’t see any likeness to that, no.
QUESTION: The Coast Guard is doing a midday reception meeting to explain its training exercise.
In an off-camera gaggle in his office presently later 11 a.m., Gibbs wasted no time ahead going after the network. A prejudiced transcript follows.
UPDATE: Politico’s Michael Calderone has CNN’s response, in which the enterprise spokesman says its reporters did in truth call the Coast Guard, and were initially told that the Coast Guard HQ was unaware of any activity on the Potomac.
QUESTION: But how smart is it to have something like this on 9/11, while the president is right in the area?
Given the circumstances, it would have been irresponsible not to report on what we were audition and looking. As with any destroying news story, information is often fluid and CNN updated the story with the official explanation from the Coast Guard as soon as it was catered.
After hearing a further radio transmission about 10 circulars creature consumed, and after reviewing movie of quick campaign by Coast Guard vessels as the President’s motorcade crossed the Memorial Bridge, CNN reported the story. Simultaneously, during a second call call,
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