[wwwtyro]

“When you get the package every morning, it puts steel in your spine,” said David Plouffe, the president’s longtime adviser.

This strikes me as backwards. Seems that a president with a steely spine would be strong enough to maintain the rights of citizens in the face of such challenges.

[mikepurvis]

I wonder if the real answer is to simply reject that workflow. I can't imagine functioning in an environment where I'm being daily bombarded with information about dozens or hundreds of potential "threats" which never become anything.

What if the president simply told his advisors that he would take a weekly instead of daily briefing on these issues?

[seunosewa]

He'll look bad when his failure to react to some threat on time leads to some unfortunate incident.