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After hearing from sources in the intelligence community that President Obama was not attending his daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis, I asked researchers at the Government Accountability Institute, a nonpartisan research group headed by Peter Schweizer (who is also my business partner in a speechwriting firm, Oval Office Writers) to examine at Obamas official schedule. We found during his first 1,225 days in office, Obama had attended his daily meeting to discuss the Presidential Daily Brief (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. By contrast, Obamas predecessor, George W. Bush, almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.
These facts are not in dispute. Indeed, before publishing both of my columns, I specifically asked National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor if there were instances where the president had, in fact, held his daily meeting on the PDB that did not appear on the official public calendar. He offered no examples, and not once did he challenge the numbers I presented. Neither has any White House official challenged them in the weeks since this controversy erupted.
What Kessler and the Obama White House do argue is a matter not of fact but of opinion that it does not matter if Obama attends a daily intelligence meeting because he reads his PDB every day.
Without criticizing Obama, former CIA director Mike Hayden recently explained the value of the in-person meeting: With President Bush, I really saw the value of the personal interaction that we had on an almost daily basis. There was rich give-and-take, so that not only did the president get the advantage of knowing the analysts innermost thoughts, but they also were able to leave the room understanding what the president believed he needed in order to make the kind of decisions he had to make.
In addition to the PDB, Hayden said, Bush also received two longer, magazine-length pieces each week, and additional in-person briefings were held on each of these. On Thursdays, Hayden also briefed Bush for a half-hour on sensitive collection programs and covert action.
It is a fact that for eight years before Obama took office, there was a daily meeting to discuss the PDB. And it is a fact that, on taking office, Obama stopped holding the daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis.
A bogus defense of Obama’s intelligence briefing record - The Washington Post
After hearing from sources in the intelligence community that President Obama was not attending his daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis, I asked researchers at the Government Accountability Institute, a nonpartisan research group headed by Peter Schweizer (who is also my business partner in a speechwriting firm, Oval Office Writers) to examine at Obamas official schedule. We found during his first 1,225 days in office, Obama had attended his daily meeting to discuss the Presidential Daily Brief (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. By contrast, Obamas predecessor, George W. Bush, almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.
These facts are not in dispute. Indeed, before publishing both of my columns, I specifically asked National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor if there were instances where the president had, in fact, held his daily meeting on the PDB that did not appear on the official public calendar. He offered no examples, and not once did he challenge the numbers I presented. Neither has any White House official challenged them in the weeks since this controversy erupted.
Without criticizing Obama, former CIA director Mike Hayden recently explained the value of the in-person meeting: With President Bush, I really saw the value of the personal interaction that we had on an almost daily basis. There was rich give-and-take, so that not only did the president get the advantage of knowing the analysts innermost thoughts, but they also were able to leave the room understanding what the president believed he needed in order to make the kind of decisions he had to make.
In addition to the PDB, Hayden said, Bush also received two longer, magazine-length pieces each week, and additional in-person briefings were held on each of these. On Thursdays, Hayden also briefed Bush for a half-hour on sensitive collection programs and covert action.
It is a fact that for eight years before Obama took office, there was a daily meeting to discuss the PDB. And it is a fact that, on taking office, Obama stopped holding the daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis.
With the facts above, any sane person would conclude that Bush was more up to date and better informed than Obama on security matters.
Show me a report that he would have seen that said 'The World Trade Centers will be attacked on 9/11/2001, with a jet flown into each one.'
Dumb ass.
Show me a report that he would have seen that said 'The World Trade Centers will be attacked on 9/11/2001, with a jet flown into each one.'
Dumb ass.
Oh, Im sorry. I thought your original post was trying to prove that Bush wasn't completely oblivious. Carry on....
Show me a report that he would have seen that said 'The World Trade Centers will be attacked on 9/11/2001, with a jet flown into each one.'
Dumb ass.
Oh, Im sorry. I thought your original post was trying to prove that Bush wasn't completely oblivious. Carry on.
Show me a report that he would have seen that said 'The World Trade Centers will be attacked on 9/11/2001, with a jet flown into each one.'
Dumb ass.
Oh, Im sorry. I thought your original post was trying to prove that Bush wasn't completely oblivious. Carry on.
Now that you have placed your stupidity for all to see...Whats next????
Show me a report that he would have seen that said 'The World Trade Centers will be attacked on 9/11/2001, with a jet flown into each one.'
Dumb ass.
Show me a report that he would have seen that said 'The World Trade Centers will be attacked on 9/11/2001, with a jet flown into each one.'
Dumb ass.
still waiting for this from Yank... don't suppose he'll provide it.
Show me a report that he would have seen that said 'The World Trade Centers will be attacked on 9/11/2001, with a jet flown into each one.'
Dumb ass.
still waiting for this from Yank... don't suppose he'll provide it.
Apparently, Bush never saw it either....
still waiting for this from Yank... don't suppose he'll provide it.
Apparently, Bush never saw it either....
unless you have access to classified security briefs, you're full of shit. Put up or shut up.
Provide a report that specified the attacks on 9/11, dumb ass.
What Kessler and the Obama White House do argue is a matter not of fact but of opinion — that it does not matter if Obama attends a daily intelligence meeting because he reads his PDB every day.
Someone posted a weak ass article similar to this one about a week ago.
George Bush's August 6, 2001 PDB was entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
Just a page and a half... If you think the President doesn't receive this information or the opinions of his top advisors just because he isn't physically there, you are a moron.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf
^Shows that just because it is there, it does not mean it is preventable (Al Queda, Bin Laden mentioned 40 times in PDBs before 9/11). ONCE AGAIN, unless you, or the next idiot that brings up this story, can show a declassified PDB where Obama failed to act on a definite threat, this isn't too damning at all.
President's Daily Brief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
^ It was also clearly intended to be a bulletin. People hear brief and automatically associate "meeting".
Someone posted a weak ass article similar to this one about a week ago.
George Bush's August 6, 2001 PDB was entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
Just a page and a half... If you think the President doesn't receive this information or the opinions of his top advisors just because he isn't physically there, you are a moron.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf
^Shows that just because it is there, it does not mean it is preventable (Al Queda, Bin Laden mentioned 40 times in PDBs before 9/11). ONCE AGAIN, unless you, or the next idiot that brings up this story, can show a declassified PDB where Obama failed to act on a definite threat, this isn't too damning at all.
President's Daily Brief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
^ It was also clearly intended to be a bulletin. People hear brief and automatically associate "meeting".
show me where it specified the date, time, and type of attack, dumb ass.
Someone posted a weak ass article similar to this one about a week ago.
George Bush's August 6, 2001 PDB was entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
Just a page and a half... If you think the President doesn't receive this information or the opinions of his top advisors just because he isn't physically there, you are a moron.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf
^Shows that just because it is there, it does not mean it is preventable (Al Queda, Bin Laden mentioned 40 times in PDBs before 9/11). ONCE AGAIN, unless you, or the next idiot that brings up this story, can show a declassified PDB where Obama failed to act on a definite threat, this isn't too damning at all.
President's Daily Brief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
^ It was also clearly intended to be a bulletin. People hear brief and automatically associate "meeting".
show me where it specified the date, time, and type of attack, dumb ass.
Wait a minute, we have the most advanced, largest and most EXPENSIVE military in the world!!! Are you saying our enemies have to telegraph every blow against us otherwise our CiC can't be held accountable?????
Someone posted a weak ass article similar to this one about a week ago.
George Bush's August 6, 2001 PDB was entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
Just a page and a half... If you think the President doesn't receive this information or the opinions of his top advisors just because he isn't physically there, you are a moron.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf
^Shows that just because it is there, it does not mean it is preventable (Al Queda, Bin Laden mentioned 40 times in PDBs before 9/11). ONCE AGAIN, unless you, or the next idiot that brings up this story, can show a declassified PDB where Obama failed to act on a definite threat, this isn't too damning at all.
President's Daily Brief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
^ It was also clearly intended to be a bulletin. People hear brief and automatically associate "meeting".
show me where it specified the date, time, and type of attack, dumb ass.
