White House: Obama not skipping intel briefings

[madinmaryland]

The president's spokesman disputed a Washington Post item that suggested the commander-in-chief has not attended the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) "more than half the time."

The PDB is a daily rundown of threats and developments as assessed by the national security community. It is a top secret written document that is read by the President and his inner circle of security advisors and is often accompanied by in-person briefing by intelligence officials.

The opinion column by Marc Thiessen, a former speech writer for President George W. Bush, cites research by the conservative Government Accountability Institute, which studied Obama's daily schedule from his first day in office through June 2012.

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MR. CARNEY: He gets it every day, okay? The President of the United States gets the presidential daily briefing every day. There is a document that he reads every day when he is not - well, he always reads it every day because he’s a voracious consumer of all of his briefing materials. And when he is physically here, most days he has a meeting in his office, the Oval one - (laughter) - with participants in - his national security team, including obviously Tom Donilon and others. He also has regular meetings with –

More: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/10/white-house-obama-not-skipping-intel-briefings/

Don't buy into the right wing hack's memes that President Obama does not read the PDB's. It's only obfuscation to cover up for the misadminstration that did not take seriously or even read the PDB's prior to 9/11/2001.

[babylonsister]

1. I knew he wasn't, but this is going on FB. Thanks! And

for those people who think FB is devoted to kids only, you'd be wrong.

[rustydog]

2. Just for fun, lets say Obama is intellectually lazy and skips intel briefings regularly

Bush, the boy wonder, had daily briefings and still fucked up the 9-11 response and could not get binLaden.

Obama the intelligence briefing dodger...got binLaden. game, set, match.

[RLBaty]

3. How would anybody know?

Apparently, there is a paper trail regarding how many personal briefings he participated in and he has a habit of missing many of those.

I haven't heard of any paper trail that would document that he read briefings, with understanding, on those days where he passed on the personal briefings which would have included input from the intelligence community not specifically covered in the written briefing materials.

It appears the only defense to the missed briefings complaint is that he read the material.

Reminds me of Ripley's trademark.

I think it would have been better, will be better, if he starts attending more daily briefings!

[teenagebambam]

4. As already reported in the Washington Post,

the only reason he "misses" meetings is because there is no meeting to miss. He reads the briefings, and then calls an in-person meeting if he wants follow-up. This is EXACTLY the way things were done in the Clinton administration, and only changed because Dim Son didn't want to tax his beautiful mind by reading all the briefings himself.

[jillan]

5. Let me get this straight - Rethugs are accusing THIS President of not reading PDBs????

hahaha - you've got to admit they have a good sense of humor, because surely this is a joke.

[Cha]

6. gopropaganda accuses him of everything under

the Sun hoping something will stick.. as they're left floudering in a sea of idiocy.

There's always some suckers who fall for it.

[Sparkly]

7. The "briefing meetings" started to keep Chimpy Bush from having to read.

Fortunately, this president can read for himself. (And as Carney said, he has meetings, too -- duh.)

[HipChick]

8. What does he need a meeting for?

If he can read the daily briefings himself...