Jake Tapper

Lots of blind quotes are coming out from the Obama administration expressing strong support for Amb. Karl Eikenberry. I reported earlier today that there was anger with him at the White House after the press leak of his cabled recommendations to hold off troop escalation until Hamid Karzai’s government signals a robust commitment to anti-corruption [...]

More from today’s funtime White House presser. Jake Tapper of ABC asked Robert Gibbs about the Afghanistan election:
TAPPER:  President Obama last month in Pittsburgh said, of the Afghan elections and the aftermath, “What’s most important is that there’s a sense of legitimacy in Afghanistan among the Afghan people for their government.”  Is there a sense [...]

Jake Tapper, the Twitter-addicted senior White House correspondent for ABC News, wrangles a frightening number of scoops and under-reported stories. He’s also, arguably, the mainstream media reporter most beloved by conservatives. One reason for that is that Tapper chases down stories that bubble up from the conservative media or establishment that other reporters might sit [...]

Jake Tapper of ABC News uses Twitter to goad Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) into saying what he’d be doing about Iran if roughly nine million Americans had done something different with their ballots. Quick transcription:
jaketapper: WH says it needs to focus on Iran’s nuke program/support for terror, must deal w Iran we have not 1 [...]