Obama 'Admin' won't rule out hostage 'czar'.

Obama 'Admin' won't rule out hostage 'czar'. (USAToday).

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday. "So there is a premium on clear, direct, specific, regular, reliable communication with hostage families, and that can be difficult when you have a wide range of agencies that are involved in those conversations."

Those agencies can include the the CIA, FBI, the State Department, the Defense Department and the White House.

That bureaucratic tangle begs for a single point person — a hostage "czar" — to coordinate those efforts, said Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., whose congressional district includes the Weinstein's Rockville home.

"I want someone who can walk into the office in the morning, look at the white board that has all the names of hostages, and say, 'How do we move the ball today?'" Delaney said. He's working on legislation to create such a position in the National Security Council, where the hostage czar would have the ear of senior administration officials and even the president.

"Don't get me wrong, I think the people in the White House care deeply about this issue," he said. "And it's really important to me not to be at all critical of the men and women who are doing this job. But they work in a bureaucracy. It's an institutional problem."

Earnest said he wouldn't rule out a "czar," but the White House is also considering what he called a "fusion cell."

"This would be a working level, operationally focused group of federal employees that would enable a whole-of-government response to overseas hostage events," he said. Hmmmm......Another 'power grab' to work outside the Boundaries of Congress, 'We won't negociate with terrorists'....yeah sure ...whatevah. Read the full 'fairy tale' story here.