alt Hacker NewsCIA Releases President's Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11
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What’s the purpose of publishing these? Why now? Why redacted still?
Interesting to read but … why bother?
The absence of Iran in any of this is notable.
Almost like there was no reason to include them in the 'Axis of Evil' at a time when the US was providing cover for them in the fight against Taliban.
>Under President Trump's leadership, CIA conducted the most thorough declassification effort—unprecedented in size and transparency
Oh my, the CIA do comedy now.
Seems more like:
'the president said we had to flood the zone with aliens and UFO shit because he was desperate to continue to break the law in order to hide the Trump-Epstein files; if you think the sexual deviancy and assaults he bragged about were bad ...'
Reminder that Trump famously doesn't take Daily Briefs (first term and now) and for a year with Gabbard, she was omitting huge swarths of info from what he did get.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/trump-intelligence-...
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/13/505348507/what-exactly-is-the...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tulsi-gabbard-reveals-li...
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The thing missing from these briefs is the context. We're not seeing the hundreds or thousands of other daily reports that are mixed in and have to be acted on. It's easy to cherry pick after the fact.
Case in point, just going off of the reports here it would have been hard to predict what happened. They were concerned about Bin Laden starting civil wars, taking embassies, launching a biological attack, cells in Europe, etc. And even their preliminary reports about a possible plane hijacking in the US presumed it would be a simple quid pro quo for prisoner releases.
I'm worried this release is being thinly veiled as an attack on previous administrations. But it should be pointed out that the current administration eschews intelligence entirely and has no qualms about worsening the country's current security posture.