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To: walford
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)

Apparently the PDB is actually a document, so it is something the president is supposed to read rather than attend. It's not clear how it could be known precisely how many of them Obama read.

25 posted on 09/30/2014 9:49:13 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

Do you really think affirmative-action Clown Prince nobama can read?


27 posted on 09/30/2014 9:50:29 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: wideminded

‘Apparently the PDB is actually a document’

No, it’s an actual briefing. He’s supposed to listen to it, ask questions, and direct the briefers to get him more info on areas he deems a threat/important. Obama skips the briefings [most of the time] but claims he reads the report. There is no evidence that he does. If he had, he wouldn’t be blathering about how everyone was blindsided by ISIS. *He* is the one who was blindsided, because he skipped his briefings.


35 posted on 09/30/2014 10:49:52 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: wideminded

Briefings usually consist of two parts. An oral presentation highlights the key elements. The document provides more detailed information and background. One important aspect of any briefing is that the person getting briefed has the opportunity to ask questions of the person doing the presentation.

By skipping any in-person, oral briefing, Obama ensures that nobody can ever testify that he was TOLD about any particular threat. It creates instant plausible deniability for Obama.


38 posted on 09/30/2014 11:09:37 AM PDT by Bob
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