Amazing that they would withhold this information from the president. Someone should ask Esper why the president was not briefed.
And why wasn’t Trump briefed on the invading hoards of the mutant children of Big Foot and aliens rampaging through the countryside???
I’ll bet he really was, though.
“Someone should ask Esper why the president was not briefed.”
Esper is one of “them”.
He wasn’t briefed, because it was only partial intelligence. It was still being investigated for proof that it actually occurred. They can’t brief the President on every rumor & piece of intelligence whether it’s real or not.
“Amazing that they would withhold this information from the president. Someone should ask Esper why the president was not briefed.”
Can you imagine you the amount of intelligence that passes through the intelligence services’ hands every single day? Briefing the president on a fraction of it would take hours, if not days. They must determine the most serious and most credible threats to include in the PDB every day. The White House is saying that this intelligence did not rise to that level. Remember this is an unsourced story from the NYT.