Posted on 09/29/2014 11:42:24 PM PDT by Nachum
A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.
The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama’s PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second.
The GAI’s alarming findings come on the heels of Obama’s 60 Minutes comments on Sunday, wherein the president laid the blame for the Islamic State’s (ISIS) rapid rise squarely at the feet of his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
“I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” said Obama.
According to Daily Beast reporter Eli Lake, members of the Defense establishment were “flabbergasted” by Obama’s attempt to shift blame.
“Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” a former senior Pentagon official “who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq” told the Daily Beast.
On Monday, others in the intelligence community similarly blasted Obama and said he’s shown longstanding disinterest in receiving live, in-person PDBs that allow the Commander-in-Chief the chance for critical followup, feedback, questions, and the challenging of flawed intelligence assumptions.
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I would agree on the Beeblebrox comparison....although I might even throw Bush Junior into the same category.
By the end of a primary episode....you are stuck on some guy because he gives an image that you believe in. Be it a fake image or a contrived image....it doesn’t matter. It’s all a PR-managed situation now, and people running around twenty-four hours a day to create a fake-positive or a fake-failure, and sell it to us via the Today Show, CNN, Fox’s dynamic Five, or the Washington Post. Sadly, Time and Newsweak aren’t part of the dynamic anymore because no one buys off on their logic.
Yeah, I kinda believe that HGttG had other implications built into the plot beyond a cynical one dimensional story.
It’s an intelligence brief.. he’s an idiot so not going makes sense.
The last POTUS I felt confidently safe with knowing he was on the stick and looking out for our national defense/security interest was between January 1981-January 1989. The restbefore & since Ike have seemed distracted by other interest & thus letting our guard down.
Why should this narcissist jive ass fag punk attend any briefings on any subject?
He is obviously the smartest a-hole in any room and knows more than anyone on those subjects.
This baboso sure is pathetic.
Graphic sums up what we’re dealing with-— a drugged up kid, living in denial, and completely out of touch with the real world
All a result of his youth and upbringing. Emotional maturity/ responcibility tends to stop at the age drug-alchohol use begins!
The cool dude/jock in high school who is stuck in his “glory days” all his life
Vice POSOTUS Joe Biden has got his back.
Even more alarming is that know-nothings like Jen Psaki, Mary Harf and the execreable Suzan Rice and Samantha Powers are all getting top secret info.
What are these people doing w/ that info? Selling it to our enemies?
It chilling to know greedster "anything for a buck Hillary" was also privy to US intel.
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Plus....the WH ding-a-ling apparently gave top secret clearance to 5 million of his factotums......just spreading the wealth, I guess.
We already have that. One is Barack Obola (Kenyan) and the other is Valerie Jarrett (Iranian).
What we REALLY need is a president who is an American and actually cares about preserving this country as the founders created it, rather than destroying it.
“We basically need two presidents. One to go around, making speeches and attending fund-raisers....golfing...hanging out with lobbyists. I’d call him the fake president.”..
Well, we certainly have the “Fake President” already well in trenched, now we need to find the “REAL PRESIDENT”.
It’s obvious the Fake President is way over his head and wants nothing to do with the responsibility that goes with the job. Most of us here on FB could do a better job than odumbo by just attending the daily briefings and listening to our advisors. What a worthless piece of crap odumbo is.
Now, that's interesting-----"Obama takes daily intelligence briefings in writing so that no one will be able to testify about warning the president in person about threats that the White House doesn't act on...."
OTOH, Obama gets twice-daily tallies on his offshore holdings in person as they come into the WH from around the globe---so that he can act upon insider Congressional reports from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Remember, people-----the C-in-C appointed Valerie Jarrett his "Senior Deputy Advisor." In the parlance of Chicago criminal politics, that means "wire transfer artist."
The TSA took my towel at the airport because it could be snapped as a weapon when wet, and with Obama in the White House the words Don't Panic give me no comfort.
The most unqualified person ever to be elected President.
America cannot survive with insanely stupid people who voted for this insanely stupid communist with a loyalty to islam/satan’s death cult.
I thoug that’s what we had in Obama and Jarrett?
we have 2 presidents except the 2d one is Valerie Jarrett and she doesn’t do any of those things you suggest.
President 2 spends all her time propping up president 1’s image and keeping her claws on power while pampering and stroking moochelle and making her feel relevant to keep her from going off the rails
There have been other women “powers behind the throne” like this throughout history, never thought we’d see such a blatant malicious incompetent one in our own WH
All of them until this clown seemed to be able to handle all aspects of the job.
He doesn’t need them. His plans are already in place.
all that CinC stuff gets in the way of his real job, golf..
I think he was only reading the Cliffs Notes too......
And what does that say about the pathetic brain-dead maggots that voted for this pile of steaming s__t TWICE?
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