Sentence examples for briefings saying from inspiring English sources

The Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, expressed concerns about the US briefings, saying: "If this leak is accurate, then it puts into very sharp relief the behaviour towards detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison".

Dizzy Gillespie went on the first State Department trip but wouldn't attend official briefings, saying he "wasn't going to apologise for the racist policies of America" and he veered away from the brief of performing for the important elites  the State Department was courting.

"Who benefits from a president-elect trashing the intelligence community?" Trump previously pooh-poohed intelligence briefings, saying he would only receive the daily reports when he needed them.

In the interview, Trump also defended his decision to skip some of his daily intelligence briefings, saying he gets them "when I need it" and complaining they are repetitive.

Later White House briefings said he died during the raid.

People with knowledge of the daily briefings say they are conducted by phone or e-mail.

"Nobody wanted to miss the Bauer briefings," said Tom Daschle, the Democratic Senate leader at the time.

Another United States official who receives daily intelligence briefings said the planning was "a matter of a few hours, not days or weeks".

"When they say it's certainly a one-off, it's an appropriate question to say, 'How do you know that; was this based on real briefings?' " said John Dinges, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

The American Embassy told the oil companies that they were among the terrorist targets last month, a person who attended the briefings said.

Other officials who have attended the briefings said the content of the meetings tracked closely with what had recently become publicly known about Al Qaeda's intentions.