Donald Trump and the President’s Daily Brief

EXPERT INTERVIEW — It’s a document that rarely makes news, for obvious reasons: the whole point of the President‘s Daily Brief – or PDB – is that it’s put together each morning with classified intelligence and information. The public isn’t supposed to know what’s in it, or read about how it’s presented or received. Lately, however, the PDB has made headlines for two reasons. 

Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she was moving the assembly of the PDB away from the Central Intelligence Agency, which has traditionally been tasked with doing the work, to her own department. That may seem like a minor bureaucratic change, but it raised eyebrows among some in the intelligence community who have participated in the process.