No Record of Intel Briefings for Obama Week Before Embassy Attacks
Wynton Hall
Breitbart.com
Big Peace
12 Sep 2012
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…
…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 complete article, with video, is at Big Peace.
Also, from 10 September, Report: Obama Misses Over Half His Intelligence Briefings
…The study found the following:
The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative investigative research organization, examined President Obama’s schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) — the meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence threats to the country. During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent….
Cheney responds to Obama’s reportedly poor intelligence briefings attendance
Former Vice President Dick Cheney took a shot at President Barack Obama late Monday night after it was reported that the president has attended fewer than half of his daily intelligence briefings.
“If President Obama were participating in his intelligence briefings on a regular basis then perhaps he would understand why people are so offended at his efforts to take sole credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden,” Cheney told The Daily Caller in an email through a spokeswoman.
“Those who deserve the credit are the men and women in our military and intelligence communities who worked for many years to track him down. They are the ones who deserve the thanks of a grateful nation.”…
Presidenting is hard.
Update: Barack Obama: National Security Disaster
Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, explains the real problem with Obama – he is a national security disaster. More than that Obama is an international security disaster. If Obama gets four more years he will destroy America’s ability, not only to defend its allies, but to even defend the homeland…
Update 2: Pro-al Qaeda Group, Zawahiri Reportedly Behind Libya Attack; Obama Heads to Vegas for Fundraisers
Update 3: Pimp with a Limp: Obama Skipped Intel Briefings Week Before Attacks
Obama found time to do multiple radio interviews, discuss Nicky Minaj, Hip Hop music and the Buccaneers. On September 11, this is what Obama was doing instead of attending a national intelligence briefing.
Update 4: Shouldn’t president’s failure to attend intelligence briefings be getting more media coverage?
