The daily White House briefing resumed after a phoned-in bomb threat forced the evacuation of several floors of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and the White House briefing room. Reporters were led outside of the White House gates and told to assemble across the street while bomb-sniffing dogs investigated the briefing room.
While reporters don’t have much to ask when it comes to Hillary Clinton and [insert scandal here], they had plenty of questions when they realized that apparently only journalists were evacuated. Where was press secretary Josh Earnest? And what was the deal with the lenses of the still-running TV cameras being covered up?
Some questions: 1) what happened; 2) why only press evacuated; 3) who covered up our camera lenses? https://t.co/vUYxEOAdQp
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) June 9, 2015
Only reporters in the WH briefing evacuated. Not the president. Not the WH staff in offices steps from the briefing room
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) June 9, 2015
@jonkarl If @PressSec's office was safe, why didn't the the press go there?And if it wasn't, why didn't Josh Earnest go outside? #veryfishy
— Bernadette IL (@BernadetteIL) June 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/pbolyard/status/608349332639739904
Josh @PressSec Earnest getting heat from press corp about the evacuation of the briefing room – why press evacuated and not president?
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) June 9, 2015
@greta @PressSec Because @BarackObama called in the threat….so many hard isis questions #Greta
— David B (@dbales6tc02b) June 9, 2015
@greta @PressSec They figured Obama would read it in the news and self evacuate. You know in between selfies.
— sal (@tevet) June 9, 2015
President "was not moved" during today's alleged bomb threat, West Wing was not evacuated except for press briefing room. Seems a bit odd.
— Anthony DeRosa? (@Anthony) June 9, 2015
Obama was at the WH but @PressSec says he does not know what the president was doing. He was not evacuated.
— Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) June 9, 2015
Glad to see threat dismissed & White House briefing underway again. But something is odd. Why was press room evacuated, but not West Wing?
— Joel C. Rosenberg (@JoelCRosenberg) June 9, 2015
Not all of the West Wing was evacuated, we now know. Officials were allowed to stay inside but briefing room, reporter workspaces evacuated
— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) June 9, 2015
Anyone else find it odd that ONLY the press briefing room was evacuated during threat, and the President was NOT? #Whitehouse
— Jennifer Salisbury (@Jlynsalz) June 9, 2015
@jonkarl @MatthewKeysLive When bombs can blow up entire city blocks they leave all the key people inside? Something wrong with this picture.
— Marilyn (@chenoite) June 9, 2015
@jonkarl someone had brought donuts & didn't want to share with y'all, so ya had to go!
— Stephanie Brooks (@BeBraveNStuff) June 9, 2015
https://twitter.com/MorryTaylor/status/608339942041915392
This is a disturbing theory that might have some merit:
Calling in bomb threats can be a tactic to see how/where people evacuate. Always remember – the target may not be the building. #softtargets
— Jenni? (@DrCol_J) June 9, 2015
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