President-elect Donald Trump doesn't seem to think it's a big deal if he skips intelligence briefings, but he certainly found it an objectionable habit when President Obama was rumored to be missing them. Between September 2012 and October 2014, Trump, who said Sunday he doesn't "have to be told the same thing in the same words every day" in daily intelligence briefings, tweeted about Obama's attendance on at least three separate occasions:
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