CNN has an article up titled, “Missed Iraq briefing irks some Senate Democrats.” It seems that the faxed notice for this week’s briefing by General Petraeus didn’t get to a few Senators in time, which caused them to miss the meeting. The tone of the article is that this is somehow the fault of the White House.

For example, Senator Durbin had this to say:

“No, I didn’t receive an invitation,” complained Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, who said the notification system from the Pentagon and White House is “usually very good.”
“I’m just going to write it off as poor staff work. I’m not going to make it anymore sinister than that,” said the Illinois lawmaker. “They should have gotten it right.”

Poor staff work? His or the president’s? CNN continues:

“Fifty House members and 40 senators — evenly split between Democrats and Republicans — did show up for the classified briefings, a senior defense department official said”

And Senator Schumer’s response to all of this:

The invitation for Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York was later found buried in faxes at the machine reserved for faxes from his constituents and the public, his office said.

Shouldn’t somebody be reading those?