Jay Carney to Brian Williams: 'Close Hold: We Got Bin Laden. Tell No One.'

While some have questioned White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s job performance in the last few weeks, he was certainly very clear when communicating with one of the nations’ most well-known reporters on the Bin Laden news.

Politco’s Playbook provides us with this nugget from an upcoming story by Howard Kurtz in Newsweek.

“[NBC ‘Nightly News’ anchor] Brian Williams … was in his Connecticut kitchen … when White House spokesman Jay Carney called to say he should get to the chair: ‘Close hold: we got bin Laden.

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