So our president elect doesn't want security briefings

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028315320

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 02:37 PM
Star Member Cyrano (9,571 posts)

So our president elect doesn't want security briefings

This should scare the hell out of everyone who voted for him. But I doubt if they read or hear anything that the rest of us are seeing and hearing.

It seems that our president elect is more interested in personal profit than national security.

And it seems that our president elect has delegated all that "national security junk" to his Veep, Pence, a fundamentalist Jesus freak.

And I guess that if anything comes up that the orange fuehrer needs to know about, or make a decision on, his white supremacist adviser, Steve Bannon, will bring it to him and tell him what to do about it.

America, we are in such deep shit.

Let me say that again. America, we are in such deep shit.

I TOTALLY agree.  What is UP with that??

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.

Marc Thiessen: Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-obama-skipping-more-than-half-of-his-daily-intelligence-meetings/2012/09/10/6624afe8-fb49-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html?utm_term=.e48ee66c06e6

Oh, wait, wrong preznit.  I guess it doesn't apply to Jug Ears.

[franksolich]

I tell you, as soon as the first camp gets built, I want to be sure Cryano's the first one sent there.

It's scary, how much he knows about us.

[Carl]

I thought they didn`t want him getting briefings.
God,they are hard to keep up with.

[dane]

The Dummy, in his rant, seemed fond of "...it seems that...".   One wonders if he/she is aware that "...it seems that...." may be the opinion of the viewer/writer (in this case, a Dummy), and is not quite the same as "...it is..."

[SVPete]

1. trump has not been inaugurated, and won't be for nearly 8 weeks.

2. Trump has attended 2 such briefings in the past 3 weeks (and possibly a 3rd, as the information I found is several days old).

3. VP-elect Pence has attended briefings daily. With inauguration 8 weeks away and an administration to staff, that's actually a very good use of available talent. This may augur Pence being utilized fairly more than has been common for VPs (it helps that Pence isn't a fool like Biden).

I'd say DU-folk are mountainizing a mole hill, but for their lack of a mole hill.