Obama attends CIA Khost memorial

[jefferson_dem]

Obama attends CIA Khost memorial

As Washington scurried to prepare for a couple feet of snow, Barack Obama made a morning visit to the CIA to attend a memorial for the seven CIA officers killed by a Jordanian double agent in Khost Afghanistan late last year, Salon's Mike Madden reported for the White House press pool:

POTUS left the White House at 10:13 a.m. for an uneventful 14-minute motorcade to Langley, Va. The event at CIA was closed press, apparently for national security reasons, and the WH had no background info on it. But CIA officials confirmed to your pool that it was a memorial service for the seven agency employees killed in Afghanistan late last year, and that some of their family members were at the memorial. For additional information, contact the CIA press office.

While POTUS attended the event, your pool -- with all electronic equipment turned off and/or in the press vehicles -- held in an entry hall until agency officials were sure that there were no undercover employees in the nearby hallways. After brief negotiations between Secret Service and CIA police, your pool was then escorted to the CIA gift shop, where we're told proceeds of sales fund scholarships for agency employees' children. (And where a sign by the cash register warned, "Don't forget! If you are undercover, you cannot charge! It will blow your cover.")

We are now holding in the motorcade -- which, out of an abundance of caution ahead of the coming Snowmageddon, mostly consists of SUVs -- about to leave Langley for Lanham, Md.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0210/Obama_attends_CIA_Khost_memorial.html

[Clio the Leo]

1. That sign is a hoot. NT

[boppers]

2. Snowmageddon?

Interesting reporting style.