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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...

According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing--known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)--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: 9/6/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-06 9/7/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-07 9/8/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-08 9/9/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-09 9/10/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-10 9/11/2012- http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/president/2012-09-11 The last time prior to the slayings that the White House calendar publicly confirms Mr. Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing was September 5th. (The White House did not provide an official public...