It is meant to place the blame on the failings of anyone and everyone except Obama. Obama never accepts responsibility for any of his failings. This is no different. It is someone else’s fault.
No worries.
Everyone settle down.
“I don’t think it is supposed to be bad news. It is meant to absolve him.”
The left, and maybe others, made a very big deal about the August 2001 intelligence briefing Bush got, even though that had no specifics that would warn anyone about 9/11. So I think the Obama people are trying to get out ahead of a similar story here. If Obama gets hammered as bad as Bush did for supposedly “knowing” ahead of time, then it could be a very bad story.
I read it that way also. It is meant to absolve him.