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Flashback: Obama tells Trevor Noah POTUS is flying blind without intel briefings … and he would know

President Obama, who recently sounded the warning about slickly packaged fake news, sat down for an interview with comedian Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.”

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In the interview, which aired Monday night, the president persisted in his habit of criticizing his successor, taking issue with Donald Trump’s suggestion that he didn’t require daily intelligence briefings because he’s a smart person and doesn’t need to be told the same thing every day.

https://twitter.com/ongle/status/808533338466160640

Of course, President Obama himself wasn’t above flying blind every now and then, choosing the day after the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi to fly to Las Vegas for a campaign fundraiser rather than attend an intelligence briefing.

https://twitter.com/VileStyle/status/808528515624640512

Marc Thiessen of the Washington Post reported at the time that Obama hadn’t attended his daily intelligence meeting since Sept. 5, and had missed 62 percent of his daily in-person intel briefings in 2011 and 2012. National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor informed him that the Presidential Daily Brief was delivered to the president’s residence every morning for him to read at his convenience.

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“This president, you see, does not need briefers. He can forgo his daily intelligence meeting because he is, in Vietor’s words, ‘among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet,'” Thiessen noted. In short, he was a smart person and didn’t need to be told the same thing day after day.

https://twitter.com/mumubobby1/status/808526695728721920

It’s worth noting also that the president’s own choice of successor, Hillary Clinton, slept through the president’s daily brief when the president finally was ready to talk about Benghazi, four days after the attack.

 

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