[SIZE=14pt]Normally, upon completion of the PDB, the Executive Coordinator [/SIZE][SIZE=14pt]would travel to the White House, brief the Chief of Staff, and if the [/SIZE][SIZE=14pt]President required a briefing, she would brief the President.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14pt]She testified:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14pt]So during the weeks that I produced the PDB, I would produce [/SIZE][SIZE=14pt]it, and then they would drive me to the White House, and I [/SIZE][SIZE=14pt]would produce[/SIZE][SIZE=14pt]—or I would brief Jack Lew first, who was the [/SIZE][SIZE=14pt]Chief of Staff.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14pt]And if the President required a brief during that day or chose to take a brief, then I would give him a brief, and if not, then his briefer—then the DNI would brief him. [/SIZE]
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[SIZE=14pt]On September 12, 2012, the morning after the Benghazi attacks, the [/SIZE][SIZE=14pt]Executive Coordinator—the individual presenting the President with his Presidential Daily Brief—traveled to the White House.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=14pt]That day, however, she did not present the PDB to the President.[/SIZE]
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Q: How did it happen on the 12th that day?
A:
I was here.
So we were not traveling yet.
We were in D.C.
So
I would have
—
I had a driver, and the driver drives me to the
White
House.
I drop off the book first with the usher and then I
go down and I brief Jack Lew.
Q: Okay.
And what time was that on the 12th?
A:
So we always arrive by 7:00, and so it would've been around
7:00. I mean, I'm assuming around 7:00.
Q:
So that day at 7:00, the booklet that has been put together,
you take it to the White
House, you visit with Jack Lew and then
someone walk
ed it into
—
A:
No.
First we give the brief to the usher.
So my driver drops
me off at the front gate.
I go through—
Q: You actually physically hand the document
—or the material.
A:
Yeah, I physically hand the material to the usher and then I
walk back down with my briefcase and go see Jack Lew and wait for him and then I brief him.
...
Q: But you did talk with Mr. Lew that day?
A: I did.