President Obama and required briefing – what is the NGA?

An interesting update from the GotGeoint blog as they reveal a little surprise from Commander in Chief Obama as he apparently was unsure of what the NGA was as he stopped in at a 5 Guys Burger for a bit to eat. From GotGeoint blog In what we are calling truly astounding news, it was discovered that President Obama did not know what the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency was? How was this uncovered? During a stop off for burgers at Five Guys with members of the press, Obama happened to have an interaction with an NGA employee who was buying a burger there at the same time. And, President Obama actually asked “what is this National Geospatial…” Too hard too believe? Check out this C-SPAN video of the interaction. In addition, props to Politico.com for breaking this story.

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  • ezree

    OMG. and i’ll bet he says “EZ-REE” instead of the required EE-ESS-ARE-EYE

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