President's Daily Brief

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The President's Daily Brief (PDB), sometimes incorrectly referred to as the President's Daily Briefing or the President's Daily Bulletin, is a top-secret document produced each morning for the President of the United States. Responsibility for producing the PDB - which was traditionally held by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency - was transferred to the Director of National Intelligence at the time, John Negroponte, after he was confirmed by the Senate on April 21, 2005. The PDB is now delivered by the current (2010) Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. The PDB is intended to provide the president of the United States with new international intelligence warranting attention and analysis of sensitive international situations. The prototype of the PDB was called the President's Intelligence Check List; the first was produced by Richard Lehman at the direction of Huntington D. Sheldon on June 17, 1961.