Major Garrett, the Fox News reporter who today accused the White House of breaking the law by mixing politics with official business, later backtracked on those allegations pretty clearly.
At the daily press briefing, Garrett implied that White House emails might go out to people who’ve signed up for email lists for Organizing for America, the Democrats’ political group, or President Obama’s campaign web site.
In a later appearance on Fox News, he said, “I should not have done that.”
“There is no evidence whatsoever that anything that’s at the Democratic National Committee comes anywhere near the White House in this health care debate or anything else. I want to get that on the record absolutely clearly,” Garrett said.
He did say, however, that he’s still going after reports that people who haven’t signed up for White House emails received a message today from senior adviser David Axelrod about health care reform.
Here’s the (rather heated) exchange from the press briefing:
