Team Obama leaks failed raid in bid to shore up image

Fox News ^ | August 21,2014 | Chris Stirewalt

[Pearls Before Swine]

I think the leak has precisely the opposite effect. It makes the US look weak and incompetent. The intent may be to show that Obama cared enough to order a mission that failed, but I don’t think that’s the way it will be received, either in the US or abroad.

[Wolfie]

Can you imagine the backlash if they had paid the ransom?

[Third Person]

It’s the national duty to prop up the first black president... by any means necessary.

[vietvet67]

Perhaps this explains it better.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/retired-intel-officer-foley-rescue-attempt-failed-because-obama-dragged-his-feet/

[Baynative]

Its gonna take more than Obama saying it happened to make me believe it.

[publius911]

Team Obama leaks failed raid in bid to shore up image

How does a failed mission qualify as "flawless?"
How does Epic Fail fit into that characterization?
There are no brownie point ever awarded for "good intentions."

To add insult to incompetence, how does aiding and abetting the enemy during a state of war sound?
Leaking the specifics of details of the failed military action.

[combat_boots]

A bit like Extortion 17

[Baynative]

I have been an admirer of Tony Shaffer for a long time going way back to the Able Danger operation and what the Clintons put him through with government persecution while they were trying to cover up their lack of interest about the AlQeada build up.

I trust anything and everything that Shaffer has to say.

[a fool in paradise]

Died trying to “rescue” another true believer kool aid drinker who loved Islamic imperialists.