Don’t Get Ahead of Your Briefs
Batter up! Tony Snow holds his inaugural gaggle:
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TONY SNOW: I do not know. I think they have, but I don’t know. I don’t want to mislead you on that. I don’t know.
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TONY SNOW: Look, again, you’re getting me ahead of my brief. I don’t know any more than I’ve told you.
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TONY SNOW: You can’t — you know, Helen, you can’t confirm or deny when you’re dealing with matters of classification.
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TONY SNOW: You’ll have to ask the folks on Capitol Hill.
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TONY SNOW: If you read the reporting within the American press today you will find that — at least what has been said in the press is that people not only were fully briefed, but had no objections. I don’t know. You will have to ask the appropriate members of the Senate Intelligence –
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TONY SNOW: I’m telling you that I can’t comment on the details of the stories.
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TONY SNOW: You will have to ask the Senate committees who has been fully briefed, and you can draw your own conclusions on that basis.
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TONY SNOW: … As a matter of fact for gaggle purposes, if somebody can take notes on some of these things, I’ll try to get back to you on it. But I just don’t know the answer.
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TONY SNOW: At this point –
QUESTION: — delegate.
TONY SNOW: — we have no view on it.
QUESTION: — have –
TONY SNOW: That I don’t know.
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TONY SNOW: You’ll have to ask General Hayden.
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TONY SNOW: We don’t have that yet. No, but it will be next week.
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TONY SNOW: Dana, I’m going to toss that to you, because you’ve got a better brief on that. You don’t mind if I do that, do you?
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TONY SNOW: I’m not going to — as a lawyer, I’m not going to argue with legal experts.
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TONY SNOW: Honestly, I can’t answer the question.
QUESTION: Why?
TONY SNOW: Because I don’t know enough about it.
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QUESTION: Can you just talk about what you see as doing the job, then.
TONY SNOW: Well, doing the job is maintaining, to the best of my ability, the flow of information.
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Visions of Michael Jordan in right field.
Enjoy those briefs, Tony. They’re only going to get tighter.
