Obama spokesman encounters some bumps in first briefing
President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, fields questions Thursday at the White House for the first time.
By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs clashed with reporters Thursday over anonymous sources and access to President Obama, just one day after Obama pledged "a new era of openness" in government.
At his first White House briefing before a crowd of reporters and camera crews, Gibbs deflected questions about why two senior officials who had earlier briefed the news media about Obama's Guantanamo Bay prison order would not allow their names to be used.
Gibbs also took heat for excluding TV cameras, photographers and a radio reporter from Obama's Wednesday night oath of office do-over with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts...
Full article at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-22-gibbs_N.htm
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