President Obama Is Now Attending His Intel Briefings

President Barack Obama meets with members of his national security team in the Situation Room of the White House, in a handout photo provided by the White House. Pete Souza/The White House

Obama’s Intel Briefing Attendance Nears 100 Percent -- Washington Post

Let it not be said that columnists don’t have clout.

Take, for example, The Washington Post’s op-ed columnist Marc Thiessen’s Sept. 10 piece saying President Obama has failed to attend his daily intelligence briefing (or PDB) “more than half the time.”

Thiessen’s column was based on numbers from the Government Accountability Institute, which he described as a “new conservative investigative research organization.” (It’s now being called a “nonpartisan” research group.)

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My Comment: I guess the criticisms hit home and the explanations from the White House were not convincing anyone.