Bush's daily intelligence briefings may go up threefold in quality

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....but if he ain't paying attention and listening only to KKKarl Rove, Bush's quality of decisions will continue to decline. It's all about about leading a horse to the water troff but only thirst will make the horse drink.

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Bush's Intelligence Briefing Gets Overhaul

By KATHERINE SHRADER
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 19, 2005; 6:57 PM

WASHINGTON -- President Bush's secret morning intelligence briefing is getting an overhaul, drawing on new sources of information and trimming others, nearly four months after a presidential commission criticized the daily report for being ineffective.

In a rare look at how the president receives his intelligence each day, two senior intelligence officials said Bush is now getting written assessments and verbal briefings that pluck information from across the government's 15 spy agencies, rather than almost exclusively relying on the CIA.

President Bush and Prime Minister John Howard of Australia hold a joint press conference, Tuesday, July 19, 2005, in the East Room at the White House. Howard has announced that Australia will send 150 elite troops to Afghanistan by September to fight a growing tide of insurgent-led violence. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) (Ron Edmonds - AP)
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity at the request of National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.

As soon as next week, Bush will no longer receive a separate report on terrorism prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center, known as the President's Terrorist Threat Report, or "Putter." That information instead will be folded into the regular morning briefing so Bush has a single, daily intelligence product, one of the officials said at a briefing Tuesday.

The quality of the President's Daily Brief _ or PDB in Washington-speak _ recently came under fire in a scathing 600-page report by a commission Bush formed to examine the quality of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.

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1. shank

When Bush gets up in the morning he asks his advisor's what is going on.

"What's going on in Iraq?
"Are those mean people still after Karl and my friend Kenny Boy?"

"Now you just sit down and drink your orange juice or watch tv or something", his advisor's say, "We've got it all figured out. You don't need to worry about it. Here, memorize this speech you have to give on thursday or something, just don't bother us, we've got it under control"

"Oh, o.k., hey when can I go bike riding? Actually, I'd really like to play golf"

[ClintonTyree]

2. Well, when the president doesn't actually READ the reports....

you can assume that he's not getting the maximum information. Relying on Aides to tell him what's going on, and bush's known short attention span, I'm willing to stick my neck out and say that bush hasn't the foggiest idea of what is going on. Hence his reluctance in getting rid of Rove. He wouldn't know what to do.
Think about it people. bush REALLY in charge and making decisions in his OWN! :scared: That's pretty fucking scary, folks. :scared: