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Sure, common sense cries out for the spokes mouth to say, "I don't know" when he doesn't know. Then there would be complaints that he doesn't know.I am not referring to the literal job description of spokes mouth but to what the spokes mouths show us while on the job. It has been my observation over the past few decades that spokes mouths tend to be less then forthcoming overall. This pattern has been apparent regardless of the party in power at the moment. I realize you wish to focus on Spicer, but I do not find him any different than others in his position.Xelor, I think you may be expecting character from people whose job description requires a lack of it.Except Major Garrett had the info at the time, so why wouldn't Spitter?????
Spot on! Moreover, Spicer stated he has just spoken with Phil. He didn't have to say that. So either he did and Phil, for whatever reason, didn't feel comfortable telling Spicer the truth, or Phil had not "just" spoken with Spicer.
My gut says that Spicer just doesn't have that fine a character. The guy could have said, "As far as I know....", but he didn't. Hell, he could have simply not replied to Garrett; it was a tweet after all. Sh*t. Garrett didn't even ask a question. He merely stated what he was told by two people. Take the stance of "okay....that's what you've heard; I believe you when you say you heard it." Don't address it and let it sit "out there" as a rumor, which is all it'd have been had Spicer/the WH ignored it, rather than dignify it, or worse create downstream trouble for oneself, by responding to it.
Spicer and his boss, like a lot of people of questionable ethical bearing, seems to have a need to defend things that don't need to be defend, or that don't need to be defended at the time they act to defend them. Say what you will of that notion, but in my experience, people who do that have a guilty conscience in some way, great or small.
Perhaps you and I have very different understandings of the nature of the jobs in question as well as the expectations to which holders of them are expected to adhere?
As far as I know, all Executive Branch employees, except perhaps the President (I'd have to look into that), are subject to the guidelines found at the two links above.
It has been my observation over the past few decades that spokes mouths tend to be less then forthcoming overall.
Well, that's really a matter of completeness, and as such legit to note. That politicians and their staff are incomplete in their disclosure is also somewhat bothersome to me, but I know it's tantamount to asking them to walk on water to be both complete and 100% accurate with whatever he does say.
I am shooting for the easier thing to accomplish....there are no real constraints on simply saying what one knows is wholly so, not saying what one doesn't know to be so, or at least saying one is unsure if one doesn't doesn't know X to be wholly so and one, for some reason, feels obliged to say X.