THE STRANGE STORY OF AHMED MOHAMED & HIS SUSPICIOUSLY BOMB-LIKE CLOCK: Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne “later noted that the president had tweeted about the case and invited Ahmed to the White House before the pictures of the clock were even publicly available. Obama made no attempt to contact her office before making public comments in support of the Muslim teen.”

It sounds like the White House acted stupidly, to coin a law-enforcement-related phrase.