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State Dept. On Obama Intel Briefings: 'He Receives Those Whenever He Can'
2014-10-02
[BREITBART] The B.O. regime found itself scrambling on Tuesday to defend President Barack Obama
Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back...
for his lackluster 42% attendance record on daily intelligence briefings, a finding from a new report issued by the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI).

When asked about the GAI revelation on Fox News, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State...
 appeared flustered and unprepared.

"Well, I have no validation of those statistics," said Psaki. "There are a range of ways that you can get your intelligence briefings on the road, in the White House, and I know that he receives those whenever he can."

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade then asked Psaki, "So you don't believe the statistics are right that say he was only at 41 percent of the intelligence briefings?" Psaki replied:

"Well Brian, I think the important thing here to note is that there is information the president receives on a daily basis. There is a range of officials in the administration including the president that make the decision designate a terrorist organization, to make the decision to increase assistance to the Iraqi security forces, that made the decision to do strikes last week. The president has been leading with the support of the national security team to take on this threat and take on this fight. And what we think we need to be focused on now is what we do moving forward."

Notably, the Obama White House did not dispute the GAI report's statistics. Indeed, it can't: the findings were calculated using the White House's own calendar.
Posted by:Fred

#17  need a reward system:
"how can you get your pudding tee time if you don't eat your meat do your job?"
Posted by: Frank G   2014-10-02 21:45  

#16   What happened ?

It was the Age of Aquarius. Peace, Love and Understanding. The dawning of a New Age. What happened? We believed our own bullshxt. Some of us still do.

When I was a child, I thought as a child, spoke as a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things. Some of us still need to grow up.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-10-02 20:49  

#15  birthdate? On what birth records?


to my room, I know
Posted by: Frank G   2014-10-02 19:55  

#14  As I recall, our beloved president was born in 1961, which would make him 52 or 53, depending on his birthdate.
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-10-02 19:34  

#13  Ah, Matt Helm. Some day I need to collect all the books.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-10-02 18:54  

#12   When I was a teenager John, I didn't trust anybody over 30. Now that I'm a senior, I don't trust anybody under 50. What happened ?

"I don't trust anybody under 30. Of course, I don't trust anybody over 30 either." Matt Helm
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-10-02 18:01  

#11  I keep a coffee cup handy for the drooling. Fools everybody but the kid's dogs.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-02 17:48  

#10  I find myself in that same camp. Lot's of reasons to feel that way with this bunch. Haven't started drooling on myself yet. What's that they say? "You come into this world bare-assed, bald and drooling on yourself and you leave the same way"
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-02 17:40  

#9  When I was a teenager John, I didn't trust anybody over 30. Now that I'm a senior, I don't trust anybody under 50. What happened ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-02 17:15  

#8  Psaki, Harf, and Ernest, and Obama clearly in over their "collective" heads. "Amateur Hour" for the last 6-1/2+ years.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-02 17:08  

#7  He receives them when he can... between golf games.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-10-02 14:16  

#6  a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State

As they say in the Valley: "Grody to the max"

Al
Posted by: frozen al   2014-10-02 10:58  

#5  
Posted by: junkiron   2014-10-02 07:25  

#4  He doesn't take the briefings because he's not the man actually in charge. The fellow who signed off on the briefings before they went downtown..... he's the man in charge.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-02 06:39  

#3  Suggestions for increasing obama's attention to security briefings:
Print them on golf scorecards
Hold the meeting at the clubhouse
Rename them 'fundraiser' on the daily schedule
State clearly that joe Biden will not attend
Open the meetings with a Muslim prayer
Posted by: Airandee   2014-10-02 06:33  

#2  Tiring, sophomoric little snip. No briefing officer would fail to back-brief his boss and inform him on precisely when POTUS took the briefing and black book and when he did not, and it would be done in writing! These are not casual events over finger food and lattes. I'm absolutely sure those sessions and his comments/questions/follow-up and taskings are very, very well documented.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-10-02 05:48  

#1  Because your first and primary responsibility is fund raising for that fucking democrat party from HELL.
Posted by: newc   2014-10-02 00:33  

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