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White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« on: September 12, 2012, 11:30:56 AM »
He skips most everything else except campaign events and fundraisers. 

White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012
By Martin Gould

President Barack Obama has missed more than half of his daily intelligence briefings since he came into power, a new report shows.

Obama has been to less than 44 percent of the vital meetings, the White House admits, with his attendance reaching a low spot towards the end of 2011 and the start of this year.

His predecessor, George W, Bush made a point of having the meetings six days a week, and attending as many as possible, the American Enterprise Institute fellow, Marc Thiessen reports in the Washington Post.

Obama’s attendance figures were prepared by the conservative Government Accountability Institute, and were not disputed by the White House. At one point he was attending fewer than two meetings out of five.

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Thiessen that Obama’s attendance at the meetings was “not particularly interesting or useful,” as he received written daily briefings. “The president gets the information he needs from the intelligence community every day,” Vietor said.

However, in January, the Post published an article, in which security officials stressed the importance of the daily meetings. “One regular participant in the roughly 500 Oval Office sessions during Obama’s presidency said the meetings show a president consistently participating in an exploration of foreign policy and intelligence issues,” that piece said.

Thiessen’s Op-Ed says that the president’s personal attendance at the briefings “is enormously important both for the president and those who prepare the brief.”

“For the president, the meeting is an opportunity to ask questions of the briefers, probe assumptions and request additional information,” Thiessen writes.

“For those preparing the brief, meeting with the president on a daily basis gives them vital, direct feedback from the commander in chief about what is on his mind, how they can be more responsive to his needs, and what information he may have to feed back into the intelligence process.”

Thiessen adds, “This process cannot be replicated on paper.”

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-skips-intelligence-briefings/2012/09/11/id/451438

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2012, 12:18:30 PM »
Yeah pretty wacky.


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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2012, 12:21:57 PM »
Yeah pretty wacky.



Obama is a layabout who only cares about partying, drinking, snorting coke, chooms, raising $$$$, etc. 

You think he gives a damn about this country? 

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2012, 02:11:28 AM »
He skips most everything else except campaign events and fundraisers. 

White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012
By Martin Gould

President Barack Obama has missed more than half of his daily intelligence briefings since he came into power, a new report shows.

Obama has been to less than 44 percent of the vital meetings, the White House admits, with his attendance reaching a low spot towards the end of 2011 and the start of this year.

His predecessor, George W, Bush made a point of having the meetings six days a week, and attending as many as possible, the American Enterprise Institute fellow, Marc Thiessen reports in the Washington Post.

Obama’s attendance figures were prepared by the conservative Government Accountability Institute, and were not disputed by the White House. At one point he was attending fewer than two meetings out of five.

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Thiessen that Obama’s attendance at the meetings was “not particularly interesting or useful,” as he received written daily briefings. “The president gets the information he needs from the intelligence community every day,” Vietor said.

However, in January, the Post published an article, in which security officials stressed the importance of the daily meetings. “One regular participant in the roughly 500 Oval Office sessions during Obama’s presidency said the meetings show a president consistently participating in an exploration of foreign policy and intelligence issues,” that piece said.

Thiessen’s Op-Ed says that the president’s personal attendance at the briefings “is enormously important both for the president and those who prepare the brief.”

“For the president, the meeting is an opportunity to ask questions of the briefers, probe assumptions and request additional information,” Thiessen writes.

“For those preparing the brief, meeting with the president on a daily basis gives them vital, direct feedback from the commander in chief about what is on his mind, how they can be more responsive to his needs, and what information he may have to feed back into the intelligence process.”

Thiessen adds, “This process cannot be replicated on paper.”

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-skips-intelligence-briefings/2012/09/11/id/451438

Is this a reliable source?

If so Obama is not acting as a pres. He spends time campaigning and misses Intelligence briefings. WTF. Go fuck yourself Obama

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2012, 02:13:43 AM »
Obama is a layabout who only cares about partying, drinking, snorting coke, chooms, raising $$$$, etc. 

You think he gives a damn about this country? 

Snorting coke? Really?

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2012, 03:57:09 AM »
Snorting coke? Really?

Yes.   Obama used to abuse coke

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2012, 04:37:11 AM »
Yes.   Obama used to abuse coke

Maybe "Fast and Furious" was an exchange program. Weapons for coke.

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2012, 06:14:39 AM »
Fast and Furious was supposed to create more support for gun control in the US.  The weapons would go to Mexico, be used to kill lots of people and then when the bad guys were nabbed with the US purchased guns, the anti-gun lobby in America could point to the use of US purchased weapons by drug cartels in Mexico as a rationale to toughen gun laws.   The first two things happened...the third...not so much.

So, in the end , the US government creates a program to export weapons to dangerous criminals who use them to destabilize their government and further their criminal enterprises.  Congrats to Obama and Eric Holder!!!  They've officially made the USA the home of State sponsored terrorism in the Western hemisphere...

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2012, 06:27:18 AM »
Exclusive: No Record of Intel Briefings For Obama Week Before Embassy Attacks
 http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/12/Exclusive-Obama-Skipped-Intel-Briefings-Week-Before-Embassy-Attacks ^ | 9/13/2012 | Breitbart.com
 
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:43:38 AM by tapatio

According to the White House calendar, there is no public record of President Barack Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing--known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)--in the week leading up to the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo


(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...









Layabout in Chief was probably chooming, snorting coke, drinking, and pleasuring Larry Sinclaire in the WH

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2012, 07:04:46 AM »
Libya Aftermath: Commander-in-Chief Attends Vegas Campaign Rally
 Townhall.com ^ | September 12, 2012 | Guy Benson


Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:44:25 AM


Since our beloved media has chosen to go wall-to-wall with their absurd "gaffy-horserace-optics" meta narrative, might they also get the vapors over what our sitting Commander-in-Chief is up to tonight?  Do me a favor and go read (or re-read) these posts.  How many urgent, distressing, open questions still remain in this ongoing crisis, as the American death toll climbs to six?  With all that in mind, ta-da:
   

President Barack Obama’s Wednesday afternoon speech in Las Vegas is being delayed by about 45 minutes, according to the White House. Obama had been scheduled to speak at 5:25 p.m. at a campaign rally at the Cashman Center in downtown Las Vegas. He will now deliver his speech at 6:10 p.m., according to an updated schedule released Wednesday morning. The president was forced to alter his schedule to comment on a Tuesday attack on the American Embassy in Libya that killed four people, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, the White House Press Office said. No other event details have changed, and doors will still open to the public at 3 p.m., according to an Obama campaign official. Wednesday’s visit will be Obama’s eighth trip to Nevada this year.


 A 45 minute speech delay.  That's it.  Carry on, Mr. President -- we all know campaigning is really, really important.  (Also, this happened).  Incidentally, is anyone slightly more interested in this story now?  On Monday, the Associated Press reported that Obama was briefed on US preparedness abroad for potential 9/11 fallout:
 


 The White House said Monday the president and his advisers discussed specific measures the administration was taking to prevent 9/11-related attacks. They also discussed steps that were being taken to protect Americans abroad and U.S. forces serving in combat zones.


 So, how did that turn out? I'm not trying to score cheap points here -- I'm certain the president is mortified by what happened -- but I am holding a mirror up to the press.  If they're experiencing fainting spells over Mitt Romney's response to the first round of last night's dreadful news, they might show some interest in the behavior, decisions, and policies of the person currently presiding over the United States government.  Just a thought. Speaking of Romney's "mistake," Foreign Policy's The Cable reports that the State Department rejected the Cairo embassy statement prior to publication, but it went up anyway:
 


 "The statement was not cleared with anyone in Washington. It was sent as ‘This is what we are putting out,'" the official said. "We replied and said this was not a good statement and that it needed major revisions. The next email we received from Embassy Cairo was ‘We just put this out.'" A heated discussion ensued among State Department and White House officials over e-mail as the controversy over the statement grew Tuesday evening, even grabbing the attention of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, those same officials were dealing with a more serious attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the death of four American officials, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. "People at the highest levels both at the State Department and at the White House were not happy with the way the statement went down. There was a lot of anger both about the process and the content," the official said.

 "Frankly, people here did not understand it. The statement was just tone deaf. It didn't provide adequate balance. We thought the references were inappropriate, and we strongly advised against the kind of language that talked about ‘continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.'" Despite being aware of Washington's objections, the embassy continued to defend the statement for several hours, fueling the controversy over it, a decision the official again attributed to Schwartz. "Not only did they push out the statement but they continued to engage on Twitter and retweet it," the official said. "[Schwartz] would have been the one directing folks to engage on Twitter on this." At approximately 10:30 p.m. Washington time, Clinton issued a statement on both the Libya and Egypt attacks that included a reference to religious tolerance as well as an emphasis on the administration's condemnation of the embassy attack.


 So according to the Washington Post's timeline of events, it took the Obama administration roughly 16 hours to clean up the mess created by (apparently) a rogue operator within the Cairo embassy, even as that person or persons Tweeted several re-affirmations of the rejected missive.  Meanwhile, there was "a lot of anger" at the White House over the "process and content" of the statement -- which Mitt Romney shared and articulated forcefully.  This, apparently, was an "outrage" of some sort, prompting the Obama campaign to condemn Romney before the president had personally assailed the Cairo attack.  But who's politicizing this, again?  Mitt Romney saw an unacceptable statement from an official administration source in Egypt and called it out -- after expressing outrage over the multiple attacks on our diplomatic missions.  The White House agreed that the statement was unacceptable, but couldn't control its actors.  That's a problem, alright, but it ain't Romney's.  I'll leave you with a clip of a Romney foreign policy advisor totally dismantling an Obama surrogate on CNN this evening:

UPDATE - Must read: Phil Klein's take-down of the media's partisan and corrupt behavior today.


UPDATE II - Oh my. Obama says he doesn't consider Egypt an ally.  AP knows what's up.


UPDATE III - So, the president just compared his campaign volunteers to the US diplomats murdered in Libya.  Really:
 


 President Obama told his campaign volunteers in Nevada that he is “really proud” of them after comparing them to the U.S. ambassador and embassy staff murdered in Libya. “And obviously are hearts are broken for the families but I wanted to encourage those folks at the State Dept. that they were making a difference,” Obama told volunteer leaders in Las Vegas, according to the pool report. “The sacrifices that our troops and our diplomats make are obviously very different from the challenges that we face here domestically but like them, you guys are Americans who sense that we can do better than we’re doing….I’m just really proud of you.”

 Obama, during his talk with the volunteers, described his visit to the State Department today. “I had a chance to go to the State Dept. to comfort some of the friends and co-workers of the the folks who had fallen and I reminded them that as hard as things are sometimes, as difficult as change is that if we’re resolute, if we don’t give up, if we don’t give in, if we don’t become cynical, if we continue to be realistic about how hard change is but also keep in our hearts that sense of idealism and sense of purpose then over time good things happen,” he said.

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2012, 11:09:02 AM »
Yeah pretty wacky.



 ::)

Hard hitting analysis there.

Do you ever make any objective observations without reducing reality to a moral equivalency argument?

I'm upset that you wasted the opportunity to revitalize your battle to get money out of politics.

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2012, 08:48:11 PM »
::)

Hard hitting analysis there.

Do you ever make any objective observations without reducing reality to a moral equivalency argument?

I'm upset that you wasted the opportunity to revitalize your battle to get money out of politics.


Well my first impulse was to just cut and paste some articles, then I thought maybe I could deliver some over wordy, falsely suggestive, excessively sarcastic post that's usually more entertainment than substance, but I decided....  Nah there are way too many tools in this chest already.   :-*

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2012, 03:05:36 AM »
Well my first impulse was to just cut and paste some articles, then I thought maybe I could deliver some over wordy, falsely suggestive, excessively sarcastic post that's usually more entertainment than substance, but I decided....  Nah there are way too many tools in this chest already.   :-*

Right on!

The problem is those pesky intelligence briefings!

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2012, 05:14:57 AM »
Barack Obama lies while Americans die.

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #15 on: September 14, 2012, 05:19:41 AM »
Barack Obama lies while Americans die.

and you lie while your mother dances in your avatar

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #16 on: September 14, 2012, 05:21:51 AM »
and you lie while your mother dances in your avatar

Hey dipshit - more have died in 3 years of Obama in Afghanistan than bush in 8. 

You obama cultists are all piece of shit. 

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #17 on: September 14, 2012, 05:22:31 AM »
this was already debunked,repubs are losing hope grasping at straws :D :D :D you have to love it
 :D :D :D

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #18 on: September 14, 2012, 05:31:47 AM »
Hey dipshit - more have died in 3 years of Obama in Afghanistan than bush in 8. 

You obama cultists are all piece of shit. 

Yes and Obama disguised as a Beduin pulled the trigger right?

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #19 on: September 14, 2012, 08:37:54 AM »
President Obama Skips Intel. Briefing One Day After Embassy Attacks, Media Silent on the Issue
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Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 11:27:01 AM


In the wake of the embassy attacks in Cairo and Benghazi that left four people dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, you would think the White House would be on crisis alert. After all, when members of the American Foreign Service come under threat, with one being assassinated– it is comforting to have a commander-in-chief executing his leadership to make sure the situation is under control. Apparently, that isn’t the case in the Obama White House and the national news media don't seem to mind.

As reported today by Marc A. Thiessen of The Washington Post, “the president was scheduled to hold the intelligence meeting at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, the day after the attacks, but it was canceled so that he could comfort grieving employees at the State Department — as well he should.” However, the president decided to forgo on rescheduling his planned briefing because he needed to “attend a Las Vegas fundraiser for his re-election campaign. One day after a terrorist attack.”

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #20 on: September 14, 2012, 09:30:18 AM »
President Obama Skips Intel. Briefing One Day After Embassy Attacks, Media Silent on the Issue
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Posted on Friday, September 14, 2012 11:27:01 AM


In the wake of the embassy attacks in Cairo and Benghazi that left four people dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, you would think the White House would be on crisis alert. After all, when members of the American Foreign Service come under threat, with one being assassinated– it is comforting to have a commander-in-chief executing his leadership to make sure the situation is under control. Apparently, that isn’t the case in the Obama White House and the national news media don't seem to mind.

As reported today by Marc A. Thiessen of The Washington Post, “the president was scheduled to hold the intelligence meeting at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, the day after the attacks, but it was canceled so that he could comfort grieving employees at the State Department — as well he should.” However, the president decided to forgo on rescheduling his planned briefing because he needed to “attend a Las Vegas fundraiser for his re-election campaign. One day after a terrorist attack.”



There are no Intel briefings...that was something Bush did.  Obama speaks with intelligence official periodically during the day.  Don't believe everything you here
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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #21 on: September 14, 2012, 09:32:39 AM »
and you lie while your mother dances in your avatar

Suck a dick, crackbaby.

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #22 on: September 14, 2012, 09:38:03 AM »

There are no Intel briefings...that was something Bush did.  Obama speaks with intelligence official periodically during the day.  Don't believe everything you here


LMFAO!!!!

you stupid fucking 94ers are such a joke.   

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #23 on: September 14, 2012, 09:48:44 AM »
Hey dipshit - more have died in 3 years of Obama in Afghanistan than bush in 8. 

You obama cultists are all piece of shit. 

sigh....you are constantly telling half the story......the war has been stepped up since Obama took office..thats why more soldiers are being killed.......lets talk about how many al-Qaeda guys Obama has killed....way more than Bush.....again....notice the Republicans don't even bring up the war or foreign policy....they know Obama has been a tough guy against our enemies.....starting with killing the sea pirates....killing Osama Bin Laden.....pressing the war in Afghanistan and killing tons of militants with our drones.....the only people who bring up the war and foreign policy are you dickheads on here

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Re: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings
« Reply #24 on: September 14, 2012, 09:49:27 AM »

LMFAO!!!!

you stupid fucking 94ers are such a joke.   

actually you're the joke..for being shot down yet AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!