A Fight Over One Adviser Scrapped Obama’s Landstuhl Visit

Note the update to Friday afternoon’s post…

The campaign plane was permitted to land, the Pentagon now adds. So there wasn’t an issue of transportation.

Obama himself now tells the press that the entire controversy was over whether one adviser, Gration, would be permitted to join Obama. (Remember who told you this first.)

NBC says Gration was the one telling reporters that the Pentagon scrubbed the visit.

Looks like my source was right. The visit’s cancellation comes down to one adviser’s disagreement with a Pentagon rule. I wonder if Obama feels like he’s being well-served by retired Major General Jonathan S. Gration.