Posted on 08/21/2014 5:29:24 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer (Ret.) is a CIA-trained former senior intelligence officer and he says that the rescue operation for American journalist James Foley wasn’t successful because President Obama “dragged his feet”.
"Thursday morning, Shaffer appeared on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., to discuss the ISIS execution of American journalist James Foley earlier this week. He told me and co-host Brian Wilson that the recently revealed rescue attempt led by Special Forces earlier this summer failed because President Obama was slow to give the go-ahead:
I’m hearing from my friends in the Pentagon, they are giving him every single option way ahead of time. And let me give you a little secret here: The reason that raid into Syria failed to get Foley and those guys was because the president drug his feet. He waited too long, the intel got stale, and by the time we actually gave the “go” word it failed because we just didn’t react quick enough."
(Excerpt) Read more at youngcons.com ...
Good question, although wouldn’t that be about the rank of a senior operative actually in the field? Are their full colonels or generals actually doing stuff hands-on?
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Obama delayed the operation until July 3rd because he wanted to take credit for the rescue on July 4th if it had been successful.
The foursome ahead of Obama wouldn’t let him play through.
Don’t kid yourself. The Lt Cols are the workhorses of the officer corps, and many of the best ones leave and go on to much greener pastures as soon as they reach retirement age because they have better options. Tony Schaffer was also known to speak the truth to power, a rare quality. He continues to give us the real scoop.
When every executive decision goes though the political looking glass to weight the pros and cons of making a move to ensure the optics are favorable you, you would up leading from from behind every time...
His blood is on Obama hands....
Not that he cares....
Dear Leader likely warned them.
The op was probably compromised by Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers in the white house.
True ... takes a full bird to be CO on an Air Force Base, minimal. Of that am certain.
See this?
I agree. One of the best officers I have ever known retired as a LTC as soon as he hit 20. He went to work for double his pay without missing a day.
NTI
Not only SS, but Putin knows.
Prayers is true and there have been those that are coming to the fore-front giving information and cannot doubt kgb putin knows and the Secret Service but figure putin is laughing and having a good time watching obama burn everyone obama has burned and the Secret Service is sworn to silence but wish the Secret Service would be more proactive and perhaps they are being more proactive in the background. Looks like congress, world leaders, nearly all media and almost everyone with information to connect the dots has another reason for not telling the American People the truth. Everyone probably knows why at this site but I do not. btw, don’t deserve the capitalization but Thank You.
Valerie couldn’t make up her mind, so Obama didn’t have her instructions TO HIM until it was too late.
We learned in August of 2010 where Bin Ladin was ogled up. The military was finally allowed to go in May of 2011. 9 months. This man can not literally not make any decision more complicated than what to have for lunch in a timely manner. I’ve never seen such a lack of any spine, conviction or leadership in my life. I’m not sure if I ever even read about someone like that in such a powerful position.
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how many people has Obama gotten killed so far?
So he took credit, outed the Team 6 and gave the other side Extortion 17 on a silver platter without so much as a weapons free for escorts to return fire in the ROE.
He isn't on our side, never has been.
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