It's a Bad Day for Dick Cheney to Talk About Presidential Intelligence Briefings
go ef yourself, Dick.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/its-bad-day-dick-cheney-talk-about-presidential-intelligence-briefings/56742/
Dick Cheney picked the wrong day to criticize Barack Obama for not paying close enough attention to presidential daily briefings. Last night, The New York Times published new evidence about how the Bush White House ignored warnings about the 9/11 attacks in daily intelligence briefings. So, when Cheney ripped into the Obama White House, was he being ironic? Or maybe just offering a helpful "I learned this the hard way" lesson? Not as far as we can tell.
As The Daily Caller reports, Cheney was responding to a report by the Government Accountability Institute, a conservative group, finding that President Obama has attended less than half of his daily intelligence briefings since taking office. “If President Obama were participating in his intelligence briefings on a regular basis then perhaps he would understand why people are so offended at his efforts to take sole credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden,” Cheney told Jamie Weinstein through his spokeswoman. According to the report, Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting just 536 times during his first 1,225 days in office, or 43.8 percent of the time. (The White House responded saying the president always reads the daily briefing but doesn't always attend the meetings).
OK, we know Donald Rumsfeld cancelled his New York Times subscription, but Cheney, you too? Last night, of course, author Kurt Eichenwald published a much talked-about op-ed citing newly-declassified documents identifying dire intelligence briefings submitted to the Bush White House ahead of 9/11:
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