A briefer holds a briefing book prior to the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Outer Oval Office, March 10, 2009. Photo by Pete Souza/Official White House Photo
* CIA official in charge of overseeing President Biden's daily intelligence briefing reportedly lead a standoff between the CIA and Senate Intelligence Committee
* In 2013, Morgan Muir, who was a senior CIA analyst, played a lead role in advocating for the CIA's inaccurate claims defending its torture program
* The Senate Committee found, based on the CIA's own reporting, that 'enhanced interrogation techniques' against terror suspects were ineffective
* Muir led a series of combative meetings where the CIA attacked the findings
* Muir will no longer be tasked with directly briefing the president and will instead oversee the assembly of the written President's Daily Brief
The man who has been in charge of overseeing President Joe Biden's daily intelligence briefings will no longer do so.
Morgan Muir will be moved to a new role within the White House and is now expected to oversee the assembly of the written President's Daily Brief instead.
The brief is assembled from various reports from across the intelligence community, but he will no longer lead the in-person briefings.
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Update: The Official Overseeing Biden's Daily Briefings Previously Defended The CIA's False Intelligence About Torture (Buzz Feed)
Update #2: CIA analyst involved with briefing Biden shouldn't be trusted after defending torture program, former Senate investigator says (The Week)
WNU Editor: It will be a team that will be advising President Biden now .... A Rotating Group of Intelligence Analysts Will Brief President Biden (New York Times).
