Even as Kenyans on Twitter and various social media sites castigated CNN for its alarmist reporting, reporter Kate Bolduan was not backing down. After her reports on Erin Burnett’s Outfront on Wednesday evening, she was back at it again on Thursday morning downplaying Kenya’s security forces and the White House’s assurances that Kenya is safe for President Obama to visit.
She reported that the US has conducted secret airstrikes inside Somalia to send a message to Al-Shabaab.
She sought to have paint the President’s trip as risky interjecting on multiple occasions to sneak in snarky comments while interviewing Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent.
Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent in President Obama’s detail weighed in, saying that this is the most dangerous trip President Obama is making saying that unlike Iraq and Afghanistan where he arrives unannounced, this trip to Kenya has been in the offing since he took office giving an opportunity to those who wish to do him harm to plan.
Wackrow weighed in on the recent leak of Obama’s itinerary by a KQ official saying it changes a lot of preparation for the President’s arrival.
At this point she chimes in and says….”it’s a domino effect”
Mr Wackrow, continued to say that there is a great deal of preparations about where to turn to incase of injuries to the President in anything happens.
She interjected again saying..”you can’t take him to a Kenyan hospital.”
“There is a difference when the people you are working on the ground with is the US military versus the people that you are working with on the ground are Kenya…the Kenyan government.” she interjects at the very end when Mr Wackrow was talking about the security challenges for the President on this trip.
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