The President's Daily Brief

David Rothkopf: The president's daily brief is focused on things that the president doesn't already know about. He says intelligence officials don't want to go into a meeting in the White House and have the president raise something with no idea what he's talking about. Horowitz: After September 11th, every single day, I finished my PDB briefing with them while the president's briefer was briefing George W. Bush.

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