On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 16:32:03 -0600, Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote:

>In article <v6kb6e$3g202$2@news.mixmin.net>, nospam@comcast.net says...
>>
>> The Biden administration released a late-night letter on Monday
>> presenting an explanation for the eight visits quietly made to the White
>> House in as many months by an expert in Parkinson?s disease.
>>
>> The letter was put out just hours after White House press secretary
>> Karine Jean-Pierre stonewalled reporters attempting to ask questions
>> about the matter.
>>
>> ?I am just not going to do that,? Jean-Pierre said, repeatedly citing
>> ?security? and ?privacy? reasons. ?It is inappropriate. It is not
>> acceptable.?
>>
>> The questions came on the heels of a New York Post report published
>> Saturday that found Dr. Kevin Cannard, a neurologist at Walter Reed
>> Medical Center, visited President Joe Biden?s residence at the White
>> House in January.
>>
>> The New York Times reported Monday that Cannard?s name appears in logs
>> eight times in eight months between July 2023 and this past March. Any
>> visits since then cannot be released, as per protocol under the White
>> House?s voluntary disclosure policy, according to the Times.
>>
>> The Monday night letter, attributed to White House physician Dr. Kevin
>> O?Connor, states that Cannard does not examine the president every time
>> he goes to the White House. Instead, the doctor, a neurology consultant
>> to the White House medical office since 2012, regularly holds clinics
>> for other people at the White House.
>>
>> ?Prior to the pandemic, and following its end,? O?Connor noted, ?he has
>> held regular neurology clinics at the White House Medical Clinic in
>> support of the thousands of active-duty members assigned in support of
>> White House operations.?
>>
>> O?Connor did say, however, that Cannard has examined Biden one a year
>> since taking office in 2020 as part of a regular checkup. The last
>> examination uncovered no evidence of Parkinson?s, he added.
>>
>> ?President Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual
>> physical,? O?Connor wrote.
>>
>> The doctor?s written remarks confirm part of what Jean-Pierre had said
>> during the press conference earlier on Monday. She told reporters that
>> Biden had met with a neurologist three times in three years, including
>> one as recently as February, which yielded ?no findings? consistent with
>> neurological disorders, including Parkinson?s.
>>
>> Jean-Pierre confirmed during her remarks that Biden has never and is not
>> currently being treated for Parkinson?s. He also is not taking any
>> medication typically used to treat the disorder.
>>
>> Biden has a verbal check-in with his medical team ?a couple of times a
>> week,? she added.
>>
>> But the press secretary repeatedly declined to acknowledge the specifics
>> of Cannard?s recorded visits over the past year, citing respect for the
>> doctor?s privacy.
>>
>> ?There are thousands of military personnel who come onto this White
>> House. Many of them get the care from the White House medical unit, and
>> so we need to be super careful,? she said.
>>
>> ?The Medical Unit hosts a wide range of specialists, from dermatologists
>> to neurologists, and so I cannot speak to every person because there are
>> actually security reasons to protect their privacy,? she added. ?We
>> respect and protect people?s privacy so ... I?m not going to share
>> people?s names from here.?
>>
>> At one particularly contentious point during the presser, CBS News?
>> senior White House correspondent Ed O?Keefe fired back, lamenting the
>> responses to what he described as a ?very basic, direct question? about
>> whether Cannard?s visits had anything to do with Biden.
>>
>> ?It doesn?t matter how hard you push me, it doesn?t matter how angry you
>> get with me. I?m not going to confirm a name,? Jean-Pierre said. ?It
>> doesn't matter if it?s even in the log. I am not going to do that from
>> here.?
>>
>> Cannard, who recently published a paper on Parkinson?s, did not respond
>> to the Times? or the New York Post?s requests for comment about his
>> visits. The logs do not indicate if he met with Biden or was visiting
>> the White House for other reasons.
>>
>> Some online profiles for Cannard describe him as a doctor who has worked
>> in a ?supporting? role to the White House Medical Unit for 12. years. He
>> made 10 visits to the White House in 2012 when Barack Obama was in
>> office. His visits during Donald Trump?s presidency are unknown because
>> Trump rescinded the policy for disclosing visitor logs.
>>
>> https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-in-new-crisis-over-parkinsons-docs-eight-white-house-visits
>
>and she lied about it to the public this morning to the public.

To the public??

Swill