Ex-CIA Chief: By Skipping His Intel Briefings President-Elect Trump Risks Being Blamed For A Terror Attack

Reuters: Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings

Former CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump risked being blamed after any potential attack on the United States if he refused to receive more regular intelligence briefings.

U.S. officials told Reuters that Trump is receiving an average of one presidential intelligence briefing a week - far fewer than most of his recent predecessors - but that his deputy Mike Pence gets briefings around six days a week.

Panetta, a former Democratic Congressman who served as CIA director and defense secretary in President Barack Obama's first term, told the Arab Strategy Forum, a conference sponsored by the government of Dubai, that Trump's aversion "can't last."

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WNU Editor: President Obama is piling on ....

href="http://ift.tt/2hKdrBm">Obama: President Without Briefings Would Be 'Flying Blind' (AP). President-Elect Trump is not the President yet .... so he does have some leeway. But when he is President .... skipping out on his briefings is something that I would not advise.

Update: Trump team: He gets formal intel briefings 3 times a week (AP)

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