In "Briefing," Rubio is depicted as an absentee senator who skipped crucial intelligence briefings after the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks in order to raise money in California and New Orleans.
Instead, he buries himself in briefing books.
In briefing my detectives I was, of course, beating the air.
He added: I have no interest in briefing Jensen or his colleagues.
In briefing after briefing, interview after interview, NASA remained in denial.
But in briefing reporters later, the national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, acknowledged the criticism.
"We don't see a transnational threat coming out of Afghanistan," a senior administration official said Wednesday in briefing reporters before the president's speech.
Still, the attack was significant enough that it was described in briefing materials provided to President Obama, the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said on Sunday.
Several times in briefing reporters, the senior administration official referred to "the new reality" on the ground and the "moment" that will not last forever.
