{"id":14575,"date":"2012-09-14T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-14T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T18:10:19","slug":"former_intel_expert_on_obama_s_missed_briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/14\/former_intel_expert_on_obama_s_missed_briefings\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Intel Expert on Obama\u2019s Missed Briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here\u2019s Susan in Virginia, a location she doesn\u2019t wish known. Great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I used to work in the intelligence business, and I understand what goes into the President\u2019s Daily Briefing and why briefers really need to be there, except in exceptional circumstances.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me set this up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re obviously reacting to news items from previous days. What she\u2019s calling about — and by the way, I\u2019m gonna have to take a break here Susan. Can you hang on through the break?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. What she\u2019s calling about here is we learned that Obama has not had an actual intelligence briefing since September the 5th, and that he does not attend half of them overall. He hasn\u2019t had a live brief since September the 5th. The White House\u2019s answer to this is saying (summarized), “Well, he doesn\u2019t need to be briefed because he reads the Daily Brief every day, and he is brilliant.” The White House said this yesterday. “Barack Obama is the most sophisticated consumer of intelligence this nation has.”<\/p>\n

So what we\u2019re getting here is, Obama doesn\u2019t have time. He\u2019s too busy. There are other priorities — i.e. reelection, the campaign, Jay-Z fundraisers, Anna Wintour fundraisers, Sarah Jessica Parker fund-raisers. (Sarah, eat something, will you?) Them and all these other celebrities. George Clooney. No, she looks like she needs to eat. It\u2019s bones. It\u2019s bones. I keep thinking that the knee is gonna pop through the skin. I have compassion here. Anyway, what\u2019s happening is that Obama is just not taking the time. <\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t care. He\u2019s got other priorities: Reelection, campaign swings, fundraising. So the White House has concocted this line: “Well, he doesn\u2019t have attend the briefing! He reads them all, and there\u2019s no greater consumer of intel than Barack Obama. He doesn\u2019t have to go to these briefings.” Bush did it every day, first thing. So did Jimmy Carter, actually. That\u2019s what Zbigniew Brzezinski did. At 7:15-7:30 every morning, the first meeting Carter had was Zbig. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Zbig was coming in with orders from David Rockefeller. Well, it\u2019s what was going on. Anyway, so what we have here now is Susan, who says that she worked at intel, and she\u2019s gonna make the point… I don\u2019t know what she\u2019s gonna say, but she\u2019s gonna make the point that you can\u2019t get all the intel simply by reading, particularly during moments of crisis. She will explain, I\u2019m pretty confident, when we get back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And now back we go to Susan in Virginia. Now that I\u2019ve explained to people what you\u2019re calling about, launch. It\u2019s all yours.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. The President\u2019s Daily Brief is crafted specifically for the president. It\u2019s the highest-level intelligence of the most burning issues of that particular day. So, sure, he could read it on his own. However, it does not normally contain a lot of detail. It\u2019s sort of almost like a tweet. It\u2019s very brief and to the point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How do you ask questions of a piece of paper?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good question.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You can\u2019t. But any other president other than Obama, apparently, would want the CIA\u2019s top analyst there so that they can ask for more information. I\u2019m just guessing that if warnings about the attacks in Egypt and Libya were in the PDB, the President\u2019s Daily Brief —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019ve seen two things about that. I\u2019ve seen one story that said that we didn\u2019t get anything, and the other that says we did know four days early.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. If we had any warning of it, even if were a bit vague, it would have been in the PDB because it was a direct threat against US interests overseas. So what that bit would have said in the PDB is probably something along the lines of, “There\u2019s a high risk of violence against US installations overseas, particularly in the Middle East, on and around September 11th.” Now, any other president would have said, “Well, how do we know this?” And the briefers would have said, “Well, we got it from Egyptian intelligence,” or “We got it from a human source” or whatever the source was.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Why are these details not in the brief?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because the president\u2019s usually pretty busy, and most high-level consumers of intelligence are just going to skim through it and ask for details on the most pressing items.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I see. So it\u2019s designed for the details to be provided in person?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is an outline — or, like you said, a tweet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s like a tweet, although (garbled).<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, now, the average person, Susan, when hearing you describe this would then ask, “Well, why doesn\u2019t Obama want to be personally briefed?” What\u2019s the answer to that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, from what I read and have heard, he doesn\u2019t need to. He already knows it all. He\u2019s smarter than everybody else, so why bother with briefs?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So it\u2019s not that he doesn\u2019t care. It\u2019s that he already knows it. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In his mind, there\u2019s nothing anybody can tell him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Cause he already knows it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. Now, from what I\u2019ve heard — I was never on a PDB briefing team, but — it\u2019s the top level people. They go in; if there are no questions, then, you know, they head back to the CIA for the day to continue their work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If there are questions, the analyst who wrote that piece is notified immediately, and they scramble to try to provide more details that perhaps the briefers didn\u2019t know. They get tasked with that. It\u2019s time sensitive. The president is your top consumer, and I just imagine what the morale must be like among the analysts at the CIA hearing that this man, this president, doesn\u2019t even bother to be briefed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was gonna ask you that. I was gonna ask you about that. Okay, he misses half of them and says, “Well, I don\u2019t need to listen to you. I\u2019m the most sophisticated consumer of intelligence on the planet!” What the hell does that mean, anyway? What is a “sophisticated consumer of intelligence”?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Barack Obama. (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. It\u2019s a good point, though. The briefer\u2019s probably over there saying, “What are we doing this for?”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. What is the point? 41 and 43, both Presidents Bush, were briefed six days a week if not seven — if there was something going on — no matter where they were around the world. George Bush, George H. W. Bush, was the director of the CIA.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he didn\u2019t think it was below him to have to sit and listen to briefers. He wanted that. He needed it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is another thing. I can\u2019t imagine being president and not going to these briefings. To me, this is among the stuff I will want to know first thing every morning.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And also, I assume, by the way, I\u2019ve always trusted that my leaders are up to speed on this stuff \u2019cause it\u2019s not things that we, the general public, can ever know. So I\u2019ve always trusted and always had faith that the president and the intelligence team are always doing their best to get the best intelligence, and the president\u2019s informed and knows what\u2019s going on. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There has always been that implied trust.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, even in cases… I was at The Agency for a time during Clinton, and he wasn\u2019t quite as interested in intelligence, you could say, as either of the Bushes were. But you still had the feeling that you needed to deliver this intelligence to him. He would pay attention to it. You might not agree with how he reacted to it, but he wasn\u2019t going to just completely dismiss the knowledge, the body of knowledge coming out of the CIA.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. We know he did. “By the way, Mr. President, the Sudanese are willing to turn over Osama Bin Laden if, blah, blah, blah.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course that might have been a State Department function, but regardless. Apparently arrogance and cockiness go hand in hand with the type of people who think they know it all and don\u2019t need to have any details explained to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. Absolutely. I\u2019m practically shaking, I\u2019m so angry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I can imagine. You\u2019re not in the field anymore?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not even in the private sector? Do you consult?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I see. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad that you called. I appreciate your taking the time, Susan.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m glad I could be of some help.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Immeasurable help. Immeasurable. It\u2019s always great to have authority. These are things we assume. Honest to God, I have to tell you: I was not surprised when I found out Obama only gets to half of \u2019em. My opinion of… See, I know liberals like every square inch of my glorious naked body and nothing — I\u2019m telling you, nothing — surprises me as I learn it about Obama. Nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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