What Was Just Disclosed About This Appalling Obama Habit Proves He’s A Danger To America

The tire tracks from the bus Barack Obama drove over the U.S. intelligence community continue leading to trouble for a president seen as trying to save his own political skin.

When Obama told “60 Minutes” on Sunday that the rapid rise and spread of ISIS could be blamed on intelligence failure, that set off a firestorm of angry reaction. Intelligence officials adamantly defend their expertise and actions, arguing that the blame is not theirs, but the president’s for failure to act on their repeated warnings.

The Washington Times reports that the White House has been given detailed briefings on the activities of the Islamic State and their relentless spread of terror for well over a year.

U.S. policy leaders, including President Obama, were repeatedly warned for more than a year by the U.S. intelligence community that the Islamic State terror group was gaining significant strength in Syria and was on the verge of seizing territory deep inside Iraq, where the military was struggling to respond.

The private assessments, which were confirmed to The Washington Times on Monday, conflict with Mr. Obama’s claim on national television over the weekend that America’s spies had underestimated the rise and capabilities of the Islamic State and had overestimated the Iraqi military’s ability and will to fight the group.

And a new study offers a reason for Obama’s lack of awareness about the emergence of ISIS — he wasn’t paying attention…he was disinterested and detached. President Obama, says this damning report, has skipped over half his daily intelligence briefings.

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.

In a revealing analysis on americanthinker.com, Thomas Lifson argues that Obama’s apparent attempt to shift blame from his own inaction to the inadequacies of his intelligence experts will backfire and be a “disaster” for his presidency.

Obama has now handed his political opponents a big issue. He has failed in his duty to protect America.

Once the impression is created that Obama is irresponsible in his duty to protect us, it will be very hard indeed for him to escape a degree of scorn, particularly if the threat from ISIS and domestic terrorists (including lone wolves who may not be done with beheadings) continues to produce dramatic images.

Wikipedia is not your best source of info on this type of issue. I was married to a person who did some of these briefings. As Bob accurately stated in post 38, it is a two-tiered presentation. The POTUS is supposed to get the oral briefing so that he can not only ask questions, but also direct his intelligence agencies to dig deeper/get more info on areas he deems serious and/or a threat. Obama is lazy and detached. He probably wasn’t even listening on those occasions when he actually took the oral briefing. Obviously he didn’t read the report, or he wouldn’t have been “blindsided” by ISIS.

Here’s a good article for you to look at. It details at least three times the Obama Administration was warned of ISIS—and was written by an MSMer, no less:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/times-obama-administration-warned-isis-threat/story?id=25843517

The Daily Mail/UK is far less reticent about revealing damaging information WRT progressive/liberal shortcomings......the D/M/UK quoted “an Obama administration insider”...... highlighted by bulleted talking points:

•A national security staffer in the Obama administration said the president has been seeing 'highly accurate predictions' about the rise of the ISIS terror army since 'before the 2012 election'

•Obama insisted in his campaign speeches that year that America was safe and al-Qaeda was 'on the run'

•The president said during Sunday's '60 Minutes' program that his Director of National Intelligence had conceded he underestimated ISIS

•But the administration aide insisted that Obama's advisers gave him actionable information that sat and gathered dust for more than a year

•'He knew what was at stake,' the aide said of the president, and 'he knew where all the moving pieces were'

•Obama takes daily intelligence briefings in writing, he explained, because no one will be able to testify about warning the president in person about threats that the White House doesn't act on. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

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This may be the shape of things to come, as intelligence officials realize Obama intends to make them sacrificial lambs.

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Another report asserted: "Obama takes daily intelligence briefings in writing so that no one will be able to testify about warning the president in person about threats that the White House doesn't act on...."

OTOH, Obama gets twice-daily tallies on his offshore holdings in person as they come into the WH from around the globe---so that he can act upon insider Congressional reports from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

Remember, people-----the C-in-C appointed Valerie Jarrett his "Senior Deputy Advisor." In the parlance of Chicago criminal politics, that means "wire transfer artist."

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......others in the intelligence community blasted Obama......said he’s shown longstanding disinterest in receiving live, in-person PDBs that allow the C-in-C the chance for critical followup, feedback, questions, and the challenging of flawed intelligence assumptions......

Even more alarming is that know-nothings like Jen Psaki, Marie Harf and the execrable Suzan Rice and Samantha Powers are all getting top secret info....as did Obama's ex-van driver---Tommy Vietor-----who was also given a seat at WH Situation Room crisis meetings.

Its chilling to know "anything for a buck Hillary" was also privy to US intel.

Plus....the WH ding-a-ling apparently gave top secret clearance to 5 million of his henchmen burrowed deep inside the US govt apparat.

What are these people doing w/ top secret intel? Selling it to our enemies?

First, Obama doesn't have a clearance like underlings... he doesn't need one which is just as well because of his background he probably could not qualify for one (drug use, associations, etc). Second, with limited experience in dealing with such things I would guess that the code worded material in the written PDB would be HIGHLY controlled as in someone with the clearances and accesses would have to sign for anything that was handed over and would have to certify anyone, including the POTUS, who read it. Given some procedures of this sort, it is almost certain that (unlike birth certificates) there is an audit trail the DCI can track (in case there is a leak). They know who read the reports is the bottom line so the 40% figure is accurate.

“US voters would respond if someone, anyone, spoke eloquently about how far we’ve descended from the country we used to be.”

We just had a President re-elected on a tanking economy and enemies who are increasingly brazen and vicious.

There are plenty of people speaking eloquently out there, who is listening? Is the media letting their voices get out w/o their message being heavily edited and smeared with being racist — merely for telling the truth?

We currently have people celebrating police officers being shot and flowers thrown in the street for violent thugs.

What is there left of the American people who will listen?

Arm yourselves, people.

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