Selective secrecy? WaPo reporter busts WH for covering up Obama-Hillary lunch

Fortunately for Hillary, this was one “hard choice” she didn’t have to make.

The former secretary of state met with People magazine today for a photo shoot and interview. But she couldn’t stick around for too long. You see, she had somewhere else to be. Only … nobody was really supposed to know about that.

Weird Washington moment of the day – @PeopleMag accidentally tweeting about a mtg btw Hillary and Obama, not on his public sked

— Nikki Schwab (@NikkiSchwab) May 29, 2014

It was pretty awkward.

Deleted People Mag tweet with @HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/CTKIP6ikXT

— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) May 29, 2014

People eventually did send out a replacement tweet:

PEOPLE's @sswestfall chats w/@HillaryClinton before her @WhiteHouse lunch. Hope she wasn't late for @barackobama! pic.twitter.com/6MAVgsXXzO

— People (@people) May 29, 2014

After the White House was forced to acknowledge that the meeting took place.

WH just confirmed: Pres. Obama and @hillaryclinton lunched today. This was left off the Obama schedule.

— Lynn Sweet (@lynnsweet) May 29, 2014

WH confirms Pres Obama had a private lunch today with Hillary Clinton. VP Biden was in Seattle.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 29, 2014

The media don’t seem to appreciate being kept out of the loop:

There was no mention of the president's lunch with Clinton on the daily schedule of the president provided to the press.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 29, 2014

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— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) May 29, 2014

Pool reporter assigned to cover Obama today complained to Jay Carney about "lack of transparency" for trying to hide lunch with Hillary.

— Dave Boyer (@DaveBoyer) May 29, 2014

But what else should they expect from the Most Transparent Administration Evah™?

#MostTransparentEver pic.twitter.com/4A3VYCywhu

— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) May 29, 2014

Well, some transparency is OK with the Obama White House. As WaPo’s David Nakamura pointed out:

White House will tell us when CIA chief in Afghanistan is at Obama event but not when Hillary Clinton is having lunch with him.

— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) May 29, 2014

Funny, that.