{"id":31939,"date":"2012-09-10T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31939"},"modified":"2012-09-10T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T19:47:54","slug":"the-national-security-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31939","title":{"rendered":"The National Security President"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this morning’s Washington Post<\/a>, Marc A. Thiessen writes that the president has skipped more than half of his daily national security briefings to date;<\/p>\n

The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative investigative research organization, examined President Obama\u2019s schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) \u2014 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 \u2014 or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent \u2014 falling to just over 38 percent. By contrast, Obama\u2019s predecessor, George W. Bush almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Theissen continues that National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor, told him that it wasn’t necessary for the President to attend every briefing because it’s \u201cnot particularly interesting or useful.\u201d I could see a tenth of the meetings not being useful, but nearly 60% of them? The why are they even having the security briefings?<\/p>\n

But, of course, Senator Obama missed most of the votes in the Senate during his term, so why should we expect him to be more concerned about national security? We got the President we voted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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