I can’t find a link to it on the White House Press Briefing page yet, but Josh Marshall has what appears to be a partial transcript of today’s Mamet-like briefing with Scott McClellan, featuring such gems as the following:

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: Well, I’ll go over everybody that’s in there. You have all 10 commission members, you have one member of the commission staff present. Then you have the President and Vice President; Judge Gonzales is there, and two staff members from the Counsel’s Office are there as well.

QUESTION: Who are the staff members?

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I’m not going to get into the names of the staff that’s present.

QUESTION: Why?

QUESTION: Why?

QUESTION: Why?

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: Just, Judge Gonzales. They’re lawyers on the White House Counsel staff. I know you all want to call them and talk to them afterwards, but I’ll just say, two members of the White House Counsel staff.

QUESTION: No, that’s not why, we just want their names.

QUESTION: For God’s sake, this is a matter of historical record.

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: It’s a private meeting, Helen.

QUESTION: It’s not a private meeting, it’s a public meeting.

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I just told you who is present.

QUESTION: It’s doing the nation’s business.

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: These are two members of the Counsel’s Office that have been working closely with the September 11th Commission.

QUESTION: Why the secrecy?

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I don’t look at it that way.

QUESTION: But we do.

QUESTION: It is a good question. It is an historic moment. This is — in a public event.

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I’ll talk back with these individuals and see if — but —

QUESTION: Just for the record, really, just for the record.

SCOTT MCCLELLAN: I’ll talk back with these individuals, but I’m not in the habit of just going and naming every staff members that attend all these meetings.

Fans of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS and Brian Bendis’s comics will have a hard time telling whether the above is from a new script or not, I suspect.