But Mr. Obama drove the process, officials said, asking for formal briefings in the Situation Room and shorter updates during his daily intelligence briefing in the Oval Office.
What's wrong with holding briefings in a larger space?
General McChrystal gets two PowerPoint briefings in Kabul per day, plus three more during the week.
At briefings in each province, he asked questions that showed an astonishing grasp of detail.
In the briefings, in our discussions, there is just this energy.
And the White House announced today that he would begin giving regular press briefings "in the near future".
DURING the darkest days of Vladimir Putin's war in Chechnya, the press briefings in Moscow were growing ugly.
But Mr. Youngdahl's lawyers are expected to home in on how the Treasury conducted these briefings in the past.
At daily briefings in recent days, senior American officials are now characterizing the Yemeni cooperation as merely "professional".
No longer are there near-daily news briefings in English by an American overseer or military officer.
He once presided over press briefings in Baghdad that were watched around the world, particularly in December 2003 after the capture of Saddam Hussein.
