“When Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen and the Government Accountability Institute reported that President Obama has attended less than half of his Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs) on intelligence, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called the findings ‘hilarious,'” Wynton Hall reports for Breitbart. “The next day, U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American staff members were murdered.”
“According to Mr. Carney, Mr. Obama doesn’t need in-person briefings because the president gets the written version on his iPad: ‘He gets it every day, okay? The President of the United States gets the presidential daily briefing every day. There is a document that he reads every day when he is not — well, he always reads it every day because he’s a voracious consumer of all of his briefing materials,'” Hall reports. “But now, in an apparent 180-degree reversal, the White House official calendar shows that for the last four days Mr. Obama has ditched his iPad and has instead opted for the live briefings.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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