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Think Progress » White House Excuses Partisan Briefings With False ‘Clinton Did It Too’ Defense
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. "ThinkProgress Wonk Room Yglesias Progress Report Think Progress White House Excuses Partisan Briefings With False ‘Clinton Did It Too’ Defense By Amanda Terkel on Apr 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pm White House Excuses Partisan Briefings With False ‘Clinton Did It Too’ Defense » During yesterday’s press briefing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino resisted answering any questions about why the administration thought it necessary to give political briefings to appointees at federal agencies, and whose idea it was to hold them. When one reporter asked Perino whether the briefings were a “White House idea, initially, or was it the agencies,” Perino dodged the question and replied that “the Clinton administration had similar briefings.” Watch it: Perino’s “Clinton did it too” is wrong. Bush White House officials went to federal agencies on at least 20 occasions and conducted private briefings for large groups of political appointees . They gave presentations focusing on “Republican electoral prospects in the last midterm election.” The Hatch Act explicitly prohibits the use of federal property for partisan political purposes. Doug Sosnik, who served as President Clinton’s Director of Political Affairs and later as Counselor to the President, told ThinkProgress, “We never went to agencies and briefed political appointees.” Sosnik and several other former Clinton administration officials told ThinkProgress that Clinton officials never conducted similar briefings. Transcript: Q Okay, on the political briefings, there seems — there’s no shortage of political information out there. Why doe" .... read entire page
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