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Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings
Breitbart ^ | 9/29/14 | Wynton Hall

Posted on 09/30/2014 8:18:14 AM PDT by illiac

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) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.

The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama’s PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second.

The GAI’s alarming findings come on the heels of Obama’s 60 Minutes comments on Sunday, wherein the president laid the blame for the Islamic State’s (ISIS) rapid rise squarely at the feet of his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: absent; briefings; emptychair; government; notpresent; obama; typicalabdication
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To: illiac

Dereliction of Duty


41 posted on 09/30/2014 9:31:46 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: illiac

The only Intelligence Briefing that Obama didn’t miss was the briefing on the location of the best golf course.


42 posted on 09/30/2014 10:00:17 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: rktman
Tee times are important.

The Sultan doesn't actually participate in Rule. The Vizier rules. The Sultan plays. Ultimately the Vizier must please the Sultan, or at least not cause him trouble, or the Vizier Pays.

43 posted on 09/30/2014 10:48:25 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: illiac

Why bother to attend intelligence briefings if you’re already the Smartest Man In The Room in any room you walk into?


44 posted on 09/30/2014 10:50:43 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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