A new report released Monday out of the Government Accountability Institute shows that President Barack Obama only attended 41.3 percent of his Presidential Daily Briefs during his second term in office.
This is down from an attendance of 42.4 percent during his first term, reported Breitbart.
While President Obama may not physically attend the daily briefings, which largely provide intelligence information to the president, the White House claims that Obama does, in fact, read his daily intelligence briefings.
These attendance numbers were released one day after Obama stated on "60 Minutes" that the rapid rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq caught the intelligence community off guard, and he even shifted the blame towards James Clapper, the director of national intelligence.
But with a daily briefing attendance level well below 50 percent, the question is raised as to whether it may be Obama himself who is to blame.
One former senior Pentagon official, who reportedly worked closely with radical Muslim threats, contacted The Daily Beast, and said, "Either the president doesn't read the intelligence he's getting or he's bull-----ing."
However, Clapper himself admitted earlier this month to the Washington Post that he underestimated the threat posed by ISIS, and also overestimated the ability of Iraqi soldiers.
Yet sources close to the intelligence community said administration and congressional officials were explicitly warned of the ISIS threat as far back as June 2013, and an Obama national security staffer told the Daily Mail that the president's daily briefings have contained detailed warnings about ISIS dating back to before the 2012 presidential election.
President Obama also failed to attend in-person intelligence briefings for five consecutive days leading up to the Benghazi attacks, according to Breitbart.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., placed the blame not on the intelligence community, but on policymakers who failed to address the threat.
Rogers, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told The Washington Times, "This was not an intelligence community failure but a failure by policymakers to confront the threat."
"National security experts - both inside and outside the government - repeatedly warned, a year before ISIL's drive in Mosul, that Iraqi Security Forces faces severe pressure," he said.
Rogers continued to stress that the intelligence community warned for over a year that ISIS was exploiting the Syrian situation to recruit members, and was attempting to escalate violence so that it could consume the rest of the region.
The Times was told by a number of other anonymous sources that information on the threats began to creep out to the public during congressional hearings in 2014.
