Susan Page, former president of the White House Correspondents' Association, revealed that Clinton administration officials briefed her in advance of a 2000 decoy flight to Pakistan, in which a marked plane carrying a Clinton stand-in flew into Islamabad while the real president arrived separately. She says the press was informed because officials recognized reporters traveling with Clinton faced the same risk.
The comparison surfaces amid criticism of the Trump administration's handling of a similar operation last month in Turkey, where Trump was secretly moved via catering truck onto a different aircraft while the press pool remained aboard what had become a decoy plane, unaware he wasn't on it. Journalists and a historian quoted in the piece argue the difference is that the Trump White House left reporters in the dark despite the same category of threat that prompted disclosure in 2000.
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