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gibbs former white house press secretary is now a msnbc contributor
and he was on up with chris hayes the more the weekend morning show
and he admitted
i was told
do not
again knowledge
the secret drone strikes the drone program any details on that adult is
donating olives that exists in anyway here is what robert gibbs had to say in
this brings up a number of
really interesting questions
which will ask and discuss after you watch this
went through the process of becoming press secretary one of the things
well the first things they told me was
you're not even said knowledge in the drone program you're not even to discuss
that exists and so i would get a question like that and literally i
couldn't tell you what major ass because once i figured i was about the drug
cameras are not supposed to talk about
but here's what's inherently crazy about that proposition
you're being passed a question based on reporting of a program that exists
bright so nearly official government spokesperson acting as if
the entire program pay no attention to the man behind the correct added so
there's and very mixed reaction too
well workbook property and to saying here
on the one hand there are people who are saying whoa hold on a second
this is
the administration of president obama
who just a few years ago said quote i will hold myself as president to a new
standard of openness let me say this simply as i can transparency
and the rule of law
will be the touchdowns of this presidency so there's people reacting to
that in saying
how the president obama has said that
and that his administration tells robert gives do not even add eqca knowledge in
a way reminiscent of the wizard of oz is robert gibbs is implying there
that this even exists
but then on the other hand i say hold on a second let me think about this
a white house press eric secretary
is not completely forthcoming when answering questions from the media
a secret military program
that's not really outrageous this is not something new to the obon administration
uh... price so i really don't know what to think big maybe this is particularly
notable because of who robert gibbs is the res
how recent it was that he was in that position
and how honest he's being now but that the reality is not any different than
under any administration i don't know
right well i mean to me the german program is in one of those
formerly secret programs where if you review information about it
you're putting people's lives at risk
i mean these are drugs right the controlled remotely
are presumably from
somewhere completely safe woman enables riser arrest us our people control right
but you know more power to those people know that there's a german about to hit
them they don't know if the whole point of terms my thought on this the time is
that idon't like the drone program anymore than anybody else or some people
do like it but they i've included a lot like the drone program for a number of
reasons i didn't like it when george w_ bush was doing it and i don't like it
now that president obama has expanded
but to act like it's shocking that a press secretary may not may be told not
to discuss things that exist does it really seem shocking unless you're very
naive
that's true uh... on the other hand it seems like
it's not very um...
easy to understand why the press secretary can't just say uh... the
program exists it's a secret program we can't talk about it in any detail at all
it of course exactly he doesnt like it will say that i a wide that campion
answer he does basically say that in less
argumentative word saying i'm not going to go because of the records of and he
says
i'm not going to going to go into the details of that
or something along those lines and he's essentially saying that
well if he's if that's what he's saying then then there's no difference between
that and all of the other
press secretaries in history who have done the same time so none of us lewis
i'm gonna getting a sense of that shocked by the fact that
the administration tells the press secretary not to acknowledge certain
things not at all
but it's kind of contradictory you're saying on the one hand they told them
not to
even knowledge the existence of the program but on the other hand we're
saying he clearly admitted to it
well it's it's really too side in other words
his language is such that
at the time he was not admitting to its existence
after the fact eyes enemies msnbc contributor he is admitting that it
exists that now it is widely known in saying he was told don't discuss it in
his two different timeframe right