Gal
Congratulations to you and your SO on the organ donation. I hope it works out well for both of you.
I have long supported and still support organ donation. However, my recent experience from the donor side has impacted my thought process.
In October my brother was found unconscious and not breathing on the floor where he lived. It's not known what happened that resulted in his condition but no evidence of trauma or drugs were found. EMT's guessed he wasn't breathing for at least twenty minutes.
It took almost a week to identify him and contact our sister in LA. She contacted me and I spoke with his ICU nurse and doctor. Was advised he was in a coma, on life support, suffering seizures and likely would not survive. They didn't even know if he would survive the four hours it would take me to drive to Dallas to sign paperwork to take him off life support.
At the hospital, I spoke with the organ donation coordinator. Neither I nor my sister objected and consented. Sometime later the coordinator advised that they would need to do tests. Those tests would take 24-48, later reduced to about 18, hours to complete. Needless to say, given the circumstances, we simply could not contemplate leaving him in that condition any longer than necessary to complete removal of life support. He passed about 15 minutes after the process was completed.
Curious about the source and reasoning for a candidate to receive "national security briefings," I turned to the googles; "presidential candidates receive national security briefings".
First result is a 2016 article on Salon. The article offered a link to this article, Intelligence Briefings for the Presidential Nominees, by a 33-year career CIA officer who served a senior level positions.
Seems the sitting president offers the candidates a one time deep overview of the national intelligence landscape not daily briefings, not "intelligence," not documents. But to give an appreciation of just what national intelligence really involves.
Given that reasoning, Biden should deny the Buffoon the courtesy. The Buffoon knows not just the national security landscape but many of the intimate details about which he has demonstrated that he doesn't give a s**t unless it serves his personal interests.