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Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings
Breitbart ^ | 9/29/14 | Wynton Hall

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdication; absent; absentagain; briefings; emptychair; intel; missed; missing; notpresent; obama; obamanewisisstrategy; pib; typicalabdication; usintelligence
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To: vpintheak

He’d rather read about it in the papers....2 months after the briefing he skipped.


61 posted on 09/30/2014 7:29:04 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: unixfox

I’m really betting 50% attendance is being optimistic.


62 posted on 09/30/2014 7:31:27 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: EinNYC

Same as in Jr high or high school. The followers who admire and follow those who are scum. Way beyond peer pressure !


63 posted on 09/30/2014 7:38:09 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: logos

Maybe the PDB reports need to be sent via certified mail - legal proof that they have been received.


64 posted on 09/30/2014 7:41:56 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Fresh Wind

POST OF THE DAY!


65 posted on 09/30/2014 7:50:28 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: Nachum

66 posted on 09/30/2014 8:21:45 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Vince Ferrer

“Barack Beeblebrox”. That’s PERFECT!


67 posted on 09/30/2014 8:22:36 AM PDT by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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To: pepsionice

We have that right now, him out in the news and valjar doing the work.


68 posted on 09/30/2014 8:42:09 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: lonevoice

ping


69 posted on 09/30/2014 8:56:46 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: logos

Does anyone know who actually shows up at these briefings and whether they are always the same people? If the Grand Kenyan doesn’t want to be there it seems like a great opportunity for mischief amongst the group?


70 posted on 09/30/2014 9:57:09 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: markomalley

Great chart. Posting on Twitter and my site. Thank you.


71 posted on 09/30/2014 10:12:36 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Yardstick
I wonder how his 42 percent compares to other presidents.

Oh, I think that if it the same or better, the Democratic propaganda team would have already put the comparison out on Twitter and Facebook.

We can safely assume that within the next 24 to 48 hours, they will come up with a lie to deflect the truth.

72 posted on 09/30/2014 10:15:56 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Pride in the USA

Barack beheading to the golf course.


73 posted on 09/30/2014 10:19:52 AM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: Nachum

I’m not surprised at all to hear this. I’ve always figured he was the type that didn’t want to be bothered with this kind of stuff.


74 posted on 09/30/2014 6:58:49 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (I love my country; I don't like its government)
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