Obama Skipped More Than Half His Daily Intel Briefs

by JASmius



Well, natch; I mean, what does an omniscient supreme being need with puny, ignorant, mortal intelligence briefings?:

In the fallout over President Barack Obama blaming the intelligence community for the rise of the Islamic State, a new report has surfaced showing that he attended less than half of his daily intel briefings.

The Government Accountability Institute, an investigative research organization, said the president went to only 42.1 percent of his intelligence meetings, known as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB, in the 2,079 days of his presidency through Monday, according to Breitbart.

The GAI report also revealed during his first term he attended 42.4% of the briefings, while Obama has even reduced that number in his second term, with just a 41.3% attendance record.

Of course.  Godbama doesn't need intelligence briefings, because he already knows everything, and even if he didn't, all he needs to do to solve any problem is to give a "historic" speech about it.  Which he did in Cairo, Egypt over five years ago, which "fixed" the Middle East and dissipated the War Against Islamic Fundamentalism and made all 1.2+ billion Muslims our bosom allies and close friends.  Besides, it was interfering with his ongoing auditions for the PGA Tour.

And if it turns out he was wrong to skip all those PDB's, well, it's his senior intelligence officials' fault.  Because nothing is ever his fault.  He's Godbama, and therefore perfect.

Meanwhile, in the reality he thinks he controls but does not actually even recognize, his senior intelligence officials did not, in fact, drop any balls:

The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake alleged on Monday that as long as eight months ago Obama’s senior intelligence officials had alerted the White House that ISIS was growing in power while attempting to create a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

“In the beginning of 2014, ISIS fighters had defeated Iraqi forces in Fallujah, leading much of the U.S. intelligence community to assess they would try to take more of Iraq,” wrote Lake, adding that members of the Defense department were “flabbergasted” by Obama’s statement. 

“Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s (lying),” a former senior Pentagon official who knew of the threat posed by Sunni extremists told the Beast.

Hmmm; yet another ex-Regime official blaspheming The One.  Either this is a sudden outbreak of mass heresy, or some of his minions are getting tired of serving as his gelded scapegoats.

And it doesn't stop there:

Breitbart noted that following his controversial TV comments Obama has been accused by people in the intelligence community of lacking interest in “live” PDBs, which allow the president to ask follow-up questions, demand further information and challenge intel suppositions.

Meanwhile, an Obama national security staffer told the Daily Mail that the PDBs have included threat assessment on ISIS since 2012.

“It's pretty well-known that the president hasn’t taken in-person intelligence briefings with any regularity since the early days of 2009,” the staffer said. “He gets them in writing.

“Unless someone very senior has been shredding the president's daily briefings and telling him that the dog ate them, highly accurate predictions about (ISIS) have been showing up in the Oval Office since before the election.” [emphases added]

These aren't former Regime officials, but current ones.  Leakers.  Obviously not political appointees, but dedicated professionals increasingly alarmed and frustrated at what Barack Obama is doing to U.S. national security and outraged that he's blaming them for his deliberate foreign policy sabotage.

I don't think there's any "tipping point" coming, but it is little short of breathtaking that this level of internal uproar is emerging from the bureaucratic bowels of the Obama Regime.  It's like they're only now coming to grips with what we've long since known: That Barack Obama doesn't give a crap about foreign policy or national security beyond what has been necessary to, as he once put it, "bring American down to the level of the rest of the world."  As he has pretty much already accomplished that, why miss all those eighteen-hole victory laps?  Appearance's sake?