Power & Security, United States What to know about how Trump gets, or doesn't get, intelligence briefings

Perry World House Director of Communications and Research, John Gans, is quoted in this piece on reports that Russia placed bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan.

It’s a highly classified dossier outlining the most urgent and credible national security threats of the day. And that top-secret document is suddenly in the spotlight.

The president’s daily intelligence brief, or PDB, is now at the center of a firestorm over reports that Russia offered bounties to Taliban militants to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan...So what is the presidential daily brief? And how does Trump get his intelligence information, if he does not always read the written digest delivered to him every day?... 

As with warnings about the coronavirus pandemic, it seems to have fallen through the cracks, said John Gans..."The hints of threats are being seen, warnings are being sounded, but neither the president nor anyone else are heeding them," said John Gans, author of "White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War."