Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings?

[Draggingtree]

The Washington Post:

 

Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings?

By Marc A. Thiessen, Monday, September 10, 9:41 AM

 

 

President Obama is touting his foreign policy experience on the campaign trail, but startling new statistics suggest that national security has not necessarily been the personal priority the president makes it out to be. It turns out that more than half the time, the commander in chief does not attend his daily intelligence meeting.

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. By contrast, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting

[Casino67]

He probably lets Valerie Jarrett attend for him.

 

More and more 'lefty' media are reporting negative items about this guy. He must realize his days are numbered--in office.

[pollyannaish]

Because he can be the smartest and fourth best president ever on 50% less intelligence?

[nickydog]

Because he's the president so someone else (V.J.?) can go in his place if he so chooses?

[Casino67]

Perhaps it is because it resembles work.

[SrWoodchuck]

He's already as smart as he needs to be......and next to Joey B....he's "frilliant!" [ effing brilliant ]

[Geee]

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.”

Some former special forces officers have released a political ad criticizing Obama for taking what they believe to be too much credit for the raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in 2011.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/10/cheney-if-obama-attended-intelligence-briefings-he-would-understand-why-people-are-so-offended-at-his-efforts-to-take-sole-credit-for-the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden/

[Valin]

@Draggingtree

 

Cutting into his golf game?

One has to have ones priorities straight, after all.

[Draggingtree]

@Draggingtree

 

Cutting into his golf game?

One has to have ones priorities straight, after all.

I just knew yous would know the answer

[Draggingtree]

September 14, 2012, 6:39 pm

After Libya Attacks, Questions About Presidential Briefing Habits

By PETER BAKER

President Obama sat down with intelligence officials on Friday for his presidential daily briefing. That might not sound all that surprising, but despite its title, this does not actually happen daily.

The turmoil in the Middle East has provided fodder for critics about the way Mr. Obama reviews intelligence. While the president receives an intelligence briefing in writing every day, he does not sit down with intelligence officials for an in-person briefing every day. To Republican opponents, that has become a symbol of inattentiveness to a dangerous world.

“If President Obama were participating in his intelligence briefings on a regular basis then perhaps he would understand why people are so offended http://thecaucus.blo...riefing-habits/

[Draggingtree]

Obama Is So Smart He Has No Use For The Entire U.S. Intelligence Community

 

Because he’s “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet,” according to a spokesperson for the National Security Council. Marc Thiessen reports:

 

September 14, 2012 | Filed under Barack Obama,Categories,National Security | Posted by Doug Johnson

When I asked National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor if the president had attended any meetings to discuss the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) since Sept. 5, he repeatedly refused to answer. He noted that Obama had attended a principals meeting of the National Security Council on Sept. 10 and reiterated that he reads the PDB. “As I’ve told you every time you ask, the President gets his PDB every day,” Vietor told me by e-mail, adding this swipe at Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush: “Unlike your former boss, he has it delivered to his residence in the morning and not briefed to him.” (This new line of defense was echoed this morning by my Post colleague, Dana Milbank, who writes that Bush was briefed every day by his intelligence advisers because he “decided he would prefer to read less.”)

 

Vietor’s reply is quite revealing. It is apparently a point of pride in the White House that Obama’s PDB is “not briefed to him.” In the eyes of this administration, it is a virtue that the president does not meet every day with senior intelligence officials. This president, you see, does not need briefers. He can forgo

http://wizbangblog.com/2012/09/14/obama-is-so-smart-he-has-no-use-for-the-entire-u-s-intelligence-community/

[pollyannaish]

Disturbing. I find the comments from the left even more disturbing.