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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Seems to really enjoy lecturing, although he is not real good about doing anything other than stirring discontent.
Missed means he planned to go. He SKIPPED them. This should’ve been addressed at his 4-year job review.
Well... now we know.
Excellent summary Bump!
No he doesn’t he gets his Intel from the other side.
He’ll catch up, watchin the network news. Plausible deniability. “Ooops, I didn’t know that until I saw it on TV like y’all.”
Why would a liberal community organizer need intelligence. Such people rely on their ideology, not facts.
Didn’t George Bush eventually show his intelligence briefing to the public? Obama should do the same so we can see whether or not the intelligence community missed the intelligence.
The truth is not far this as Obama created ISIS with his bombing of Libya and then they got millions in weapons from Benghazi.
Just thinking that both Bush’s had been awake for hours, had finished their morning runs, had showered and shaved, and were in their office working before 7 AM, which is most likely before this punk every gets out of bed!
It is a damn disgrace and he is outright negligent in his duties by missing almost 60% of National Intel Briefings. This SOB has obviously been doing this same screw-off routine all his life. I say it is high time the SOB RESIGNS.
Let’s get our priorities straight! You don’t want to miss your tee time.
“Call me if you need me.”
Agree.
Isn’t “Dereliction of Duty” a pretty serious offense for anyone in the military?
Then why not for the CIC? Doesn’t fall under a “high-crime or misdemeanor”?
Darn - got onto this thread way too late.....
Missed half of his daily briefings.
Made ALL of his tee times.
Priorities ya know.
Psychopathic leaders take little stock in what their underlings have to say. BO doesn’t give a rip and is likely incapable of comprehending what those with far superior intellects have to communicate.
One correction, he did not miss them, he did not want them so he just passed. Hard to tell the smartest man on the planet anything, he knows it all.
Do you really want Zero doing the job of President the way HE would prefer to see it done? You want an energetic competent Marxist instead of a flaming slug? Really?
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