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Robert Gibbs: I was told not to 'acknowledge' drones
Politico ^ | 02/25/2013 | By KATIE GLUECK

Posted on 02/25/2013 12:46:36 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says he was instructed when he joined the administration not to “acknowledge” the existence of America’s drones program.

“When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you’re not even to acknowledge the drone program,” he said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes.” “You’re not even to discuss that it exists.”

Gibbs, who stressed that he was speaking only for himself, called that dynamic “crazy” and said that the lack of transparency surrounding the drones program “undermines” broader confidence in government.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drones; robertgibbs
He was told to lie. Hell, he was PAID to lie. And like the good stogge that he was.... he lied.
1 posted on 02/25/2013 12:46:43 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

So. He’s supposedly now an unbiased whateverthehelltheycallassholesonMSNBC/CNN/ABC/CBS/PBS/whatever commentator...whooppeeeee doooo!

He’s told us he lied then. Are we now to assume he’s not lying on anything else then ———or now?

Screw Him....


2 posted on 02/25/2013 12:50:44 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Responsibility2nd
And like the good stogge that he was....

Funny, He doesn't look Cuban.

3 posted on 02/25/2013 12:52:23 PM PST by Tenacious 1 ("The British are Coming (to confiscate weapons)" - Paul Revere (We know how that ended))
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sounds like the Nuremberg defense.


4 posted on 02/25/2013 12:54:12 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Responsibility2nd

Wonder what he got for lying? 30 pieces of silver? every single time? Wow, that would add up. To hell with you, Gibbs.


5 posted on 02/25/2013 12:56:53 PM PST by Wisconsinlady (Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling a drug dealer an 'unlicensed ph)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Robert Gibbs is a liar. He said so himself. Why do responsible reporters sit in WH press conferences and dutifully report what he says as news? It is a puppet show with a propaganda story line.


6 posted on 02/25/2013 1:00:06 PM PST by July4 (Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
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Obama will just roast all of you White People’s stomachs.

There are no drones.


7 posted on 02/25/2013 1:05:50 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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So if he sees a drone fly over he should just pretend he didn’t, keep his head down and concentrate on his Tinker Toys all the while saying, “I did not see that!”.


8 posted on 02/25/2013 1:08:06 PM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I thought liberals like Gibbs loved to disclose Classified Military information.


9 posted on 02/25/2013 1:35:07 PM PST by OKRA2012
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...because if you do acknowledge them, they’ll take you out by a killer drone hit?


10 posted on 02/25/2013 3:20:48 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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If Gibbs in fact failed to “acknowledge drones” while serving in the WH, then he obviously never said a word to Harry Reid, among others..


11 posted on 02/25/2013 3:32:49 PM PST by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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