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Intelligence? President Obama Missed ~60% Of His Daily Briefings
Just days after President Obama infuriated some in the intelligence and defense communities with comments that "they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," The Government Accountability Institute, a watchdog non-profit organization, found that as of Sept. 29, the President had attended only 42.4% of Presidential Daily Briefs (PDB) during his first term and 41.3% during his second term. As one former official blasted, "either the president doesn't read the intelligence he's getting or he's bullshitting."
?US President Barack Obama has attended only 42 percent of his daily intelligence briefings since assuming office more than five and a half years ago, according to a new study.
The Government Accountability Institute, a watchdog non-profit organization, calculated the number of times Obama has received daily oral intelligence briefings, or the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB). The group found that as of Sept. 29, the President had attended 42.4 percent of PDBs during his first term and 41.3 percent during his second term.
The report came days after Obama told 60 Minutes that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has “underestimated” the strength of Islamic State, the militant group currently the target of US-led airstrikes on its holdings in Syria and Iraq.
“I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” Obama said.
The statement infuriated some in the intelligence and defense communities. One anonymous former senior Pentagon official told the Daily Beast that Obama is surely getting valuable information about Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, from intelligence reports.
"Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” said the former official who is familiar with jihadist actions in Syria and Iraq.
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“It's pretty well-known that the president hasn’t taken in-person intelligence briefings with any regularity since the early days of 2009,” an Obama national security staffer told the Daily Mail on Monday. “He gets them in writing.”
The staffer added that Obama has been warned of Islamic State for years.
“Unless someone very senior has been shredding the president's daily briefings and telling him that the dog ate them, highly accurate predictions about ISIL have been showing up in the Oval Office since before the 2012 election,” the security staffer said.
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And that's the guy in charge of the strategy...
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But every ex-POTUS can cover for him since they get their own copy. Including Bush Sr.
His mind is already made up. Don't confuse him with intelligence.
Even if he had attended all of them it wouldn't have helped. We'd still be right here in the same position.
He reads about it in the next day's papers.
Something tells me that he figured out the briefings were BS as well, and isn't going to bother wasting time on them, those agencies are going to do what ever they want anyway, and the MIC is right there ready to feed at the trough... I presume he's figured out that he's been played for a patsy.
Maybe they told him he can't bring his bong.
Just axe him, I heard he would never lie.
Mark Levin has been talking about this for the last few years. He'll read obama's itinerary for the day and nearly every day that he's in D.C. it's the same bullshit schedule.
Gets up at like 8am
has breakfast until 10am
has a 10 minute meeting with some douchebag lacky bootlicker scumbag intern or whoever about the meetings he's going to skip that day as usual.
has a break until 12pm
has lunch until 1pm with fucktard Biden
has another break until 3pm
has another 10 minute briefing with another douchbag to quickly go over all the actual important shit from the meetings he skips out on every day
has another break until 5pm
shuts it down for the day and waits for din-din
Fucking disgraceful as always.
Mark Levin -- Israel above the US motto. POS! Everything for Israel, bomb the Iranis, and beg for funds from the US to do it. Scum!
OK, two comments about Mark Levin:
1. I've listened to him for a long time and I've heard damned little pro-Israel ass-kissing going on. He's as oriented on US Constitutional principles as anyone I've ever heard.
2. Even if it's all a front and that's not what he really thinks, there are damned few US Jews that give a flying fuck about Israel when the chips are down. Like all protected miniorities in the US, what they care most about is remaining a protected minority.
What is this nonsense?
The stooge-in-chief gets all his briefing/orders directly teleprompted from Goldman Sachs.
This is not man who is wanting to be president, but is little boy who like play golf and have party. At least Putin is hold interest of nation in heart.
when the manchurian's mission is done there is nothing to do but tee off. his masters are pleased with their investment.
Mark levin is the same tired old republican neocon nonsense. Him, and the rest of them, only care about any of these things because it's a democrat doing it. If it was mitt romney in office he would probably be doing the same shit and levin would praise him. I've heard him, and while he may point out some things quite well, he didn't say jack shit when bush was president. These guys have no consistency. Now that it's Obama, or bush IIi, he has suddenly remembered the constitution. I don't buy it.
Boris is listen to Mark Levin for many year. He is very smart legal speaker. You are not so much.
" He'll read obama's itinerary for the day and nearly every day that he's in D.C. "
This schedule can not possible be remotely correct! Its missing the daily golf sessions!
Hell no! He knew the gig when he signed up for it. They all do since JFK.
If he is human, he had a choice. Right or wrong we all make choices every day. Without choice what are we.
Sounds plausible I guess. He's a puppet anyways....
Bush Sr asked for the raw intlleigence data "just like he got as head of the CIA."
It's not just not reading the sanitized version...if you're not reading exactly what the head of the CIA is reading "how do you know when he's totally bullshitting you?"
And of course the answer is you can't.
We're at year six...the Department Chiefs have been running this show for the last four years now. "They're the Final BeHolder."
Pretty much what I'm beginning to think. You're "President" but the money that put you there, makes all the dicisions. You are powerless, and will get blamed for it anyway, so play golf, goof around, try to show the world you're not in charge,..........or he is?, and is just the worlds worst President? Tough one.
Or Jay or Josh or Susan or Valerie tell Mister President what they read in the newspaper.
I kind of wondered if anyone would notice that.
You mean "don't mistake him for someone with intellegence."
Inexperienced I would argue...and driven by persona.
"Your persona can keep on going long after you realize that those things you did were all your fault."
Which makes you wonder who selected him for the job.
How can he attend a meeting when he's ready to tee off?
Our own Rufus T Firefly
Pics like this are going to get you disappeared. It's like scolding a child when he happens to be the most powerful figure head in the world.
Obola is what progressives aspire to be.... a shining pinnacle of progressive criminal achievement. It can only get better with an accomplished progressive murdering criminal like Hillary! Damn the law, full speed ahead! Forward into more felonious criminality!
Grimaldus
They are barely even pretending anymore.
Pretending? Depends on your level of intelligence/awareness.
There is no barely for many of us, and the number grows constantly. Let's move on to the next phase.
I guess thats why he spent millions of dollars sealing all his school records. He must be a really big dumbass.
I vote for bullshitting.
Looking forward to the day when he won't even have to vote "Present" any longer.
"as RT reports" ~ FOX Nooze East
I wouldn't say he was missing them Bob.
That's right. He had them on audio-tape while he was golfing.
They put them on an SD card and shove them up his narrow ass.
Richard Gere is probably thinking...."Damn....wish I had an SD card instead of the gerbil."
Listen.
Maybe he was busy watching the latest jay-see video on BET.
Yeah....but the question is.....whose ass was he watching.....Beyonce or JayZee's ?
Can't be collecting millions from puppet masters and read briefing. THE POS IS A CORRUPT FRAUD!
Maybe he can get briefings on his teleprompter.
Read them in the shower or something.
Save some time so he can get to the 1st tee quicker.
(Just trying to help.)
Maybe reggie reads them to him at bedtime
Finally, something out of the administration I believe.
the president is just a figurehead anymore
The word intelligence is embarrassed to be used in the same sentence as Obama.
He isn't the smartest guy in the room-- even when he's alone in the room!
Seems to me the less he's around the Oval Office, the better off the rest of the world is. And who knows, if he starts attending 00,0 percent of Daily Presidential Briefings, the US might actually experience an economic lift-off again.
I miss Bush....nah
I miss Clinton...nah
I Miss Bush....nah
I Miss Reagan.....well, uh...
I Miss America....that may work.
not news.
he got pearle,rumsfeld,kissinger and bressinski and all the other dual citizens rabbis working 24 and 7 for israel sorry for us in the homelands
He don't need no stinkin' Intelligence reports. That's what CNN is for.
When Intelligence is Intelligence?, you take an early lunch.
"First time I heard about it was on the news this morning" See no evil, hear no evil etc. We are toast
I'd say he isn't reading his intelligence AND he's bullshitting.
When you want something really done, DON'T give it to a government....
He's on the golf course or on vacation 75% of the time...how could he be there 40% of the time for briefings?
It's OK...attending these briefings was not in his REAL job description
Come on! All he needs is his script for the day! We all know this asshat doesn't make any decisions.
President Valerie Jarrett, Iranian Communist.
They should tattoo the PDB on a dick - then Obama could claim he was stuffing himself with the PDB 7 days a week. At least during the time he is not golfing or masturbating.
or
That he had liked them so much he just couldn't put them down
Or
PDB I wish I knew how to quit you
Or
I have had PDBings up to my ass and beyond!
or
PDB tastes great less filling
"either the president doesn't read the intelligence he's getting or he's bullshitting." or he has none!
I blame the guys that prep these reports. They could get 100% attendance if they included a 15 minute session on ''Golf Swing Mechanics" or "Putting To Win" in each briefing.
the nazis lie, something which jfk found out the hard way. so why bother?
isil = isis = cia = mossad = ziocon murderers. it's all theatrics to justify jewish genocide agenda in the middle east.
President Ebola has been at war with intelligence since he first ran for office, and so far he's winning.
Using the word "intelligence" and President Chalky Chavez Goebbels in the same sentence is a total oxymoron. He's an empty suit that needs a teleprompter to tell him what to say - otherwise he stumbles and bumbles himself into embarrasing comments.
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If anyone thinks he makes any decisions based on these "briefings" they're delusional. He walks his pretty face around, and reads the teleprompter.
If you follow the strings making Obama talk and walk, up up up above the stage, you'll see Burzinski, Kissinger and a whole host of evil people pulling the strings, or with their fist up his ass.
He's a damn talking puppet! He plays golf and reads the teleprompter. That's it. He's got a pretty sweet deal. Though it matters not what he reads or what he thinks. He's not paid to think. He does what he's told, and if he steps out of line, those string pullers will just replace him with some other useful idiot.
Exactly Sgt. I really have no idea why anyone thinks its any different, as if the prick made any descisions for himself. Heck, the only concious descision he has ever made was to sell his soul to the devil by being willing to stand up and lie to the world and deflect the anger upon his office rather than the string pullers you mentioned. If it wasn't him it'd be another bush or a cheny or a mccain, but that doesn't justify what he's done to the world by playing his part in its destruction.
When will a National apology be issued to the Obama rodeo clown?
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Apropos for a Constitutional Intermission.
By definition of Presidential Daily Brief, he's supposed to fucking be there.
why? he makes no decisions, makes no policy, has no plan. never did. never will. he was placed where he is because he can read a teleprompter.
he can spend all the money he wants on his gay creature comforts and drugs, so that is all he is interested in. he is probably annoyed when he has to sign a document or make an appearance.
Perhaps the guy already knows how all this is gonna end....so, in his mind why bother! Anyway, at this point his handlers are pulling all the strings. Whether it's the economy or foreign affairs, this ship is going down!
Does the intelligence say which wars the MIC will start next?
"doesn't read the intelligence"
What intelligence? Your giving him too much credit.
Like his younger days he's probably happy playing golf with some pot.
Relax everyone. It could have been far worse if he attended all of them.
Ha! He should have been picking his golf ball out of the hole for this toon!
I guess the real question is : dumb puppet having fun 'playing president' with all the perks, or genius manipulator & social engineer with carefully crafted agenda?
I'll go with the former.
How comforting! Is anyone in charge?
Of course there is: The Jewish Mafia on Wall Street is in charge.
zionistas.
with two passports.
Do people actually still believe that he is running the country and making the decisions? So it it doesn't matter.
Yes, unfortunately you can fool most of the people all of the time.
Those who participate in the politics of Personality, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and other cultural and social criteria, without regard to common sense, are legion.
The theater of the absurd which is our government, a caprice, a baggatelle with lethal consequences for many is this, spoken by a steelworker in Wheeling when Pat Buchanan told the steelworkers that Clinton approved, enthusiastically, NAFTA and GAFTA, effectively eliminating tens of thousands of their jobs, when he was attempting to run for POTUS:
"He's a son of a bitch, yeah, but he's our son of a bitch"!!!!
That's the 'intelligence' level that guides the politics of this country's human beans, that unfortunately for the rest of us who do not emigrate have to live under.
A juvenile, pre-adolescent society that puts more thought into their fantasy football game than their destiny.
Owing to his low-level position in the party, he is obviously a puppet. Someone else makes the Decisions.
Bath House Barry is a communist street level organizer. Why would anyone expect any leadership here?
You got what you voted for.
In Jest. Be fair he is trying hard the intelligence meetings he missed he was on Vacation or on a Golf Course.......
Not very intelligent.
I don't know why people are so outraged at this. There's really no reason for him to attend the briefings. All of the national security threats we face are being created by us, intentionally, to save the Military/Industrial/Intelligence/Security industry from being downsized. I don't think you people realize just how much money is involved here, or how many people would have to go out and get productive jobs if we limited defense/intelligence/security budgets to just what is needed to defend THIS country from legitimate foreign threats; the budgets would drop from a trillion or two per year to a few hundred billion, at most. These people will do ANYTHING to save their careers, and make no mistake, Congressmen are counting on VERY lucrative post-Congress jobs with the companies involved (or with big investment banks, but that's another issue).