Rob O. said the novelty of TGN1412 never came up in upbeat pretrial briefings, adding, "I had no idea it altered the immune system".
May's spokeswoman said too much should not be read into such anonymous briefings, adding: "While I said I am not going to give a running commentary on cabinet committee discussions, neither do I recognise everything I have read in the papers over the last few weekends, characterising those discussions".
During one of the president's daily economic briefings, Mr. Emanuel added, "he said that taking over companies like this is a big deal, and that no president has ever faced anything like this before.
As a member of the Senate intelligence committee, Wyden receives classified briefings, but he added: "While I can't go into specific details, the vice chairman of the Senate intelligence committee noted yesterday that this information was collected using section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, rather than the Patriot Act.
But he has since added regular briefings on the latest popular video games and created an arcade with video games from the 1980's, like Ms. Pacman.
He said the legal rationale outlined by the Office of Legal Counsel "sounded correct" to him in the White House briefings, but he quickly added that he did not research the legal issues independently at the time.
He later said he was pleased by Mr Gove's assurance there had been no briefings against Osfted, but added he would defend his team against "unfair criticism".
"We also request and receive briefings and information on individual cases outside of those regular briefings as needed," the aide added.
"We're not doing some of the routine things we usually do," he added, referring to briefings on American security efforts and subjects in the news.
He added that the briefings he gave that are depicted in the movie were an attempt to describe Mr. McCain's worldview for Ms. Palin, and that she was "completely conversant on a whole bunch of issues".
