The phrase "a briefed" is not correct and usable in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect form of "briefed," which is typically used as a past participle or adjective, but it does not work with the article "a."
Example: "After being briefed on the situation, the team was ready to proceed."
Alternatives: "a briefing" or "a summary."
It bears all the hallmarks of an embarrassing, if harmless political gaffe: a poorly briefed Liberal party press officer was caught off-guard by a tabloid reporter's questions on whether Ignatieff, who spent long stints in the UK and the US, had ever voted in another country's elections.
Mr. Putin, who met recently with the leaders of China and North Korea to solidify opposition to the building of such a system, briefed Mr. Clinton on an offer by the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, to scrap his missile program if other countries provide him with rockets to explore space.
The goal is to produce a heavily briefed, tightly wound and meticulously edited piece of work in which every second counts.
Your editorial (3 June) advises that this month Philip Green will have to face MPs on two Commons committees to explain why he lifted millions of pounds of assets from BHS. Doubtless Green will give a well briefed account of himself – and leave the committee room laughing all the way to the bank.
At a press conference, a poorly-briefed GDR government spokesman answered a journalist's question – seeming to imply that every citizen was free to travel to the West with immediate effect.
On ITV's The Agenda on Monday Ed Miliband hardly got a word in edgeways, blindsided by a sassy attack from a well-briefed pop star, far harder to tussle with than a mere politician.
A meeting with Her Majesty, therefore, is like a meeting with a well-briefed civil servant.
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has agreed to push his cabinet to freeze most construction on settlements in the West Bank for 90 days to break an impasse in peace negotiations with the Palestinians, an official briefed on talks between the United States and Israel said Saturday evening.
Waiting for the pilot to finish her safety check, an aide briefed him on the day's events.
After nearly a year of negotiations, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has agreed in principle to return a rare fourth-century B.C. gold funerary wreath to Greece that cultural officials there contend was illegally removed from Greek soil, an expert briefed on the talks said today.
