Posted on 09/13/2012 9:20:33 AM PDT by mojito
How long had it been since President Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Egypt and Libya? After all, our adversaries are known to use the anniversary of 9/11 to target the United States.
According to the public schedule of the president, the last time the Obama attended his daily intelligence meeting was Sept. 5 — a week before Islamist radicals stormed our embassy in Cairo and terrorists killed our ambassador to Tripoli. The president was scheduled to hold the intelligence meeting at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, the day after the attacks, but it was canceled so that he could comfort grieving employees at the State Department — as well he should. But instead of rescheduling the intelligence briefing for later in the day, Obama apparently chose to skip it altogether and attend a Las Vegas fundraiser for his re-election campaign. One day after a terrorist attack.
When I asked National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor if the president had attended any meetings to discuss the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) since Sept. 5, he repeatedly refused to answer. He noted that Obama had attended a principals meeting of the National Security Council on Sept. 10 and reiterated that he reads the PDB....
Vietor’s reply is quite revealing. It is apparently a point of pride in the White House that Obama’s PDB is “not briefed to him.” In the eyes of this administration, it is a virtue that the president does not meet every day with senior intelligence officials. This president, you see, does not need briefers. He can forgo his daily intelligence meeting because he is, in Vietor’s words, “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.”
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It is circle-the-wagons time for the Obama camp.
There are people out there who desperately want to turn this into a Romney gaffe and who also want to blame this entirely on some lame youtube video. Obama is blameless.
Why would Barry need to go to briefings from our government when he gets them from his puppet masters on his Blackberry?
Why would Barry need to go to briefings from our government when he gets them from his puppet masters on his Blackberry?
Maybe if we all join hands and chant “Obamaaaaaa...” the dead will come back to life.
There is nothing as ignorant as a Democrat voter...or as dangerous.
They better have a lot of wagons. One does not have to be very bright to see that Obamas' embracing the Arab Spring was at best very dumb. The other possibilities are even more worrisome. How Obama reacts will be interesting. How the media reacts will be interesting. How the voters will react should make Romney happy.
I'm picturing stock footage of Obama at fundraisers and on the golf course, interspersed with pictures of an empty chair at various meetings - intelligence, job council, etc.
Finish it off with video of bedside table at the WH - clock on the table reads 3 AM, phone with presidential seal ringing, and ringing, and ringing...
(This new line of defense was echoed this morning by my Post colleague, Dana Milbank, who writes that Bush was briefed every day by his intelligence advisers because he “decided he would prefer to read less.”)
The reason Bush showed up in person is so that he could ask questions, give orders, and set policy. It's what a leader does. Obama chooses instead to vote 'Present'.
Sit and listen to a briefing? It’s above his pay grade.
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