National Press Corps Finally Doing Their Job
It appears that the national press corps is finally prepared to do their job and press the Bush administration for real answers, rather than taking the canned responses they have been fed for the past five years.
Here are stories from E&P on the past two days press briefings with Scott McClellan.
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan had not had a full-length press briefing in Washington, D.C. for weeks, and after today, may have wished he had postponed this one. With almost unprecedented vigor, the press corps attacked and probe the federal response to the hurricane disaster, the president's personal responsibility and failure to fire anyone who failed in his or her mission.
For the second straight day, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan on Wednesday faced tough questioning from reporters about the federal response to the hurricane disaster. Here are the relevant excerpts.