we talked to david priess, a pdb expert, he wrote a book on the presidential daily brief, he used to write personally the component articles that went inside the presidential daily brief. he told us "the president's daily brief does not consist solely of raw data. primarily the pdb offers the president the intelligence community's experts' assessment of various foreign developments. a president may choose to have raw intelligence reports including in his pdb package but the core articles in the pdb have long been analytic assessments, not merely raw data. so when the white house says it's just raw data, no. the pdb, the pb & j, the blt, the bvd, it's not just raw data. it's a big deal that the president get this intelligence briefing everyday, they produce it for a reason and for them to be wrong about the acronyms, for them to be wrong about what the