Obama blames U.S. intelligence for missing rise of the Islamic State
As President Obama prepares to leave office without having destroyed the Islamic State, he’s selling the notion that U.S. intelligence agencies failed to warn him promptly about the rise of the terrorist group more than two years ago, an assertion raising howls of incredulity in some quarters.
The White House pushed that version of events Thursday, pointing to an assessment by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper in September 2014 that U.S. intelligence agencies “underestimated” the Islamic State, also known by the acronyms ISIL and ISIS. “Those are the facts,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest. Mr. Obama told CNN in an interview that aired late Wednesday, “The ability of ISIL to not just mass inside of Syria, but then to initiate major land offensives that took Mosul [in Iraq], for example, that was not on my intelligence radar screen.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/8/obama-says-us-intelligenc...
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on Friday, December 9, 2016 – 09:19 am
Obama’s false ‘intelligence
Obama’s false ‘intelligence failure’ claim
Notice that the component of the Iraq situation Obama left out was the most critical — the withdrawal of our troops and the loss of influence over Maliki. That was foretold by numerous lawmakers, military men and outside experts who explained sectarian violence would reappear — precisely as it did.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/09/29/obamas-fal...
We Fact-Checked President Obama's Latest Claim That ISIS Wasn't On His 'Intelligence Radar Screen' “
This administration has no interest in crushing in ISIS according to our information and our data. We approached the State Department about ISIS before ISIS was in the headlines and we were ignored.”
http://ijr.com/wildfire/2016/12/751176-we-fact-checked-president-obamas-...
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on Friday, December 9, 2016 – 09:24 am
How many people have died.
How many people have died..tortured, mutilated?
ISIS has spread across the entire world..
OOps.just a Intel mistake..
not obama's fault..its those pesky Intel people.
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on Friday, December 9, 2016 – 10:09 am
The dreaded post trifecta!
The dreaded post trifecta!