President's intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat

[RandySF]

U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings about the novel coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for President Trump in January and February, months during which he continued to play down the threat, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The repeated warnings were conveyed in issues of the President’s Daily Brief, a sensitive report that is produced before dawn each day and designed to call the president’s attention to the most significant global developments and security threats.

For weeks, the PDB — as the report is known — traced the virus’s spread around the globe, made clear that China was suppressing information about the contagion’s transmissibility and lethal toll, and raised the prospect of dire political and economic consequences.

But the alarms appear to have failed to register with the president, who routinely skips reading the PDB and has at times shown little patience even for the oral summary he now takes two or three times per week, according to the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified material.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-cited-virus-threat/2020/04/27/ca66949a-8885-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html

[The Blue Flower]

1. Either he didn't give a s*** about national security

Or his puppet master told him to look the other way. He must be pressured to resign.

[Mike 03]

2. I hope to god he gets a question about this story at his presser. nt

[LuckyLib]

3. He can't read and he doesn't listen. Lethal combination!

[struggle4progress]

4. "Can I haz cheezberder?"

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Have they considered presenting them in the form of cartoons?

It could save lives.

[Igel]

6. It's really this story.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html

Instead of "often" it says "more than a dozen." Actually, the story itself says that's the only real new information. What's left out is the info from the old story that said the briefings talked about what was, not predictions. In other words, it's added a trivial point and omitted a larger portion of the facts.

And they dropped two of the reporters from the byline.