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President Biden said Friday that former president Donald Trump should not have access to classified information in the form of the briefings usually given to ex-presidents, citing Trump’s “erratic behavior” and the risk that he might recklessly reveal sensitive information.Biden stopped short of announcing that he had officially decided to prevent his predecessor from receiving the briefings, which are traditionally given before former presidents travel abroad, particularly in an official capacity. But Biden has the unilateral authority to deny intelligence access to anyone he chooses, and his remarks amounted to a statement that Trump — who for four years controlled...

Take that! In his first and only sit down with ‘The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, President Barack Obama hit out at President-Elect Donald Trump’s refusal to take daily confidential intelligence briefings. Keep reading why our current Prez says that he’ll be ‘flying blind’ if he does that! President Barack Obama, 55, got to unload on President-Elect Donald Trump’s completely unorthodox idea that he plans to skip daily intelligence briefings and only go over them only once a week,. because he’s “smart enough” not to need constant updates. In his first sit down with The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah, 32, on...

According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the murder of U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American members of his staff. According to a recent study by the Government Accountability Institute, Mr. Obama has only attended 43.8 percent of his Presidential Daily Briefs in the first 1,225 days of his Administration. The White House responded by claiming that President Obama reads daily intelligence reports, even if he does not attend the...

In the wake of the embassy attacks in Cairo and Benghazi that left four people dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, you would think the White House would be on crisis alert. After all, when members of the American Foreign Service come under threat, with one being assassinated– it is comforting to have a commander-in-chief executing his leadership to make sure the situation is under control. Apparently, that isn’t the case in the Obama White House and the national news media don't seem to mind. As reported today by Marc A. Thiessen of The Washington Post, “the president was scheduled to...