Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009 7:11 PM UTC
The White House’s muted reaction to museum shooting
President Obama asked about a wounded security guard. But press secretary Robert Gibbs wasn't exactly effusive.
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WASHINGTON — Today’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum came less than two weeks after Dr. George Tiller’s murder and a murder at an Army recruiting post in Arkansas, but the White House isn’t quite ready to say the incidents indicate any kind of trend toward politically motivated violence.
“I would want to ask somebody in law enforcement if they see links such as that,” press secretary Robert Gibbs said at his daily briefing this afternoon. “I don’t — I don’t think it would be wise for me to surmise something like that.”
White House aides alerted President Obama about the shooting shortly after it happened, and they were monitoring developments in the Situation Room throughout the afternoon, Gibbs said. The president asked about a security guard wounded in the assault.
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