The White House's Negative Approach to Speech Writing

The Obama administration and the Bush administration would workshop within the presidential branch of government and out in the agencies what it is they wanted to do. And then through background briefing calls with journalists, we would re decipher for the public like what was below the water line of this whole speech. This seems like they are taking the speech writing task much more literally than that. They are having some kinds of meetings about what the speech will say. But they're not actually doing the policy development.