The White House continues to withhold critical information from the press. In a press conference today, hospital administrator Peter Banko said that the White House had been informed that Mr. Whittington suffered a heart attack between 9:30-10AM this morning. Watch it:
But at today's White House Press Briefing, which started after 12PM, Scott McClellan didn't tell the press. CNN confirmed that McClellan "was notified [about the heart attack] just before the briefing." But McClellan suggested to reporters that he didn't have any new information:
I don't want to make this about anything other than what it is. It is what it is. I was very respectful and responsive to your questions yesterday. I provided you the information I knew based on the facts that were available... I'm just not going to go back through it again.