Hayes: Report Shows Obama Skipped Intel Briefing
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Posted On: 06/28/2016 3:46:13 PM
Hayes: Report Shows Obama Skipped
Intel Briefing 1 Day After Benghazi Attack
Many new details have emerged from the House Select Committee on Benghazi's report, including the shocking revelation that President Obama did not attend his daily intelligence briefing the day after the September 11, 2012 terror attack.
Fox News contributor Stephen Hayes wrote in The Weekly Standard that it's not uncommon for Obama to skip the briefing, but his decision to do so the day after the attack will certainly raise some eyebrows.
"The president's briefer handed a written copy of the presidential daily briefing to a White House usher and then briefed Jack Lew, who was then serving as White House chief of staff," Hayes wrote. "But Obama, who sometimes avails himself of the oral briefing that is offered along the written intelligence product, did not ask for such a briefing the day after the attacks on U.S. facilities in Libya."
"It's not unusual for Obama to skip his oral briefing, but his decision to pass on the PDB on September 12, 2012, will no doubt generate additional questions."
Hayes wrote that the Benghazi report also illuminates a fascinating intra-intelligence community dispute over language that appeared in the briefing.
Apparently, it centered on the line "…the presence of armed assailants from the outset suggests this was an intentional assault and not the escalation of a peaceful protest."
Hayes wrote that there was disagreement over whether the attack would be portrayed as an intentional, planned assault or the escalation of a peaceful protest.
Intel Briefing 1 Day After Benghazi Attack
Many new details have emerged from the House Select Committee on Benghazi's report, including the shocking revelation that President Obama did not attend his daily intelligence briefing the day after the September 11, 2012 terror attack.
Fox News contributor Stephen Hayes wrote in The Weekly Standard that it's not uncommon for Obama to skip the briefing, but his decision to do so the day after the attack will certainly raise some eyebrows.
"The president's briefer handed a written copy of the presidential daily briefing to a White House usher and then briefed Jack Lew, who was then serving as White House chief of staff," Hayes wrote. "But Obama, who sometimes avails himself of the oral briefing that is offered along the written intelligence product, did not ask for such a briefing the day after the attacks on U.S. facilities in Libya."
"It's not unusual for Obama to skip his oral briefing, but his decision to pass on the PDB on September 12, 2012, will no doubt generate additional questions."
Hayes wrote that the Benghazi report also illuminates a fascinating intra-intelligence community dispute over language that appeared in the briefing.
Apparently, it centered on the line "…the presence of armed assailants from the outset suggests this was an intentional assault and not the escalation of a peaceful protest."
Hayes wrote that there was disagreement over whether the attack would be portrayed as an intentional, planned assault or the escalation of a peaceful protest.
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