Posted on 09/03/2014 7:26:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Obama called ISIS a JV team, they had taken Fallujah. US intel knew their capabilities, even though Obama Inc. has insisted on blaming bad intel for his dismissive comments.
But the intel wasn’t bad. The intel is rarely that bad. It’s the leadership that’s bad.
A former Pentagon official confirms to Fox News that detailed and specific intelligence about the rise of ISIS was included in the PDB, or the President’s Daily Brief, for at least a year before the group took large swaths of territory beginning in June.
The official, who asked not to be identified because the PDB is considered the most authoritative, classified intelligence community product providing the President with analysis of sensitive international events, said the data was strong, and “granular” in detail, adding a policy maker “…could not come away with any other impression: This is getting bad.”
The official who has close knowledge of the process said the President, who reads the PDB unlike his predecessors who traditionally had the document briefed to them, was not known to come back to the intelligence community with further questions or “taskings.” Asked to describe the frequency, the former Pentagon official said “not generally.”
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‘Calling a thing by its RIGHT name is the beginning of wisdom”
“O” thinks (like ALL Liberals) that if he can call the thing what he wants to call it, then he changes/controls what it actually IS.
Everyone one earth does that... UNTIL THEY GROW UP!
In order to rally the progressive base (read: “keep the donations coming”) against a conservative take-over of congress, BO must appear to be confident, poised and in command - even to the detriment ours - and our allies - national security...
There is only one explanation: he was deliberately misleading the public as an excuse for his dithering.
I don't give a shit if plugs becomes president .. in name .. because that's all we have now and the message MUST be sent to the world ... we will not be played any longer.
There's a presidential election soon and we can deal with the mess then ... but zero must go now.
RE: ‘Calling a thing by its RIGHT name is the beginning of wisdom”
So, what does calling a thing by its WRONG name make you?
It’s all politics and controlling the masses. Mr. Detached, the idiot residing in the White House, only cares of 1 thing in the end. Destroying America. He told Americans that before his election people just saw their great half black hope. He’s a man with no appreciation of anything American becauseeverything has been handed to his sorry behind.
It should be obvious by now. $hithead deliberately and intentionally, with full knowledge and awareness, chose to do nothing while the bearded savages gathered their strength and formed a jihadi caliphate.
Politically correct.
The man is a disgrace.
Fearless Leader also said, “Those who make the mistake of harming Americans will learn that we will not forget and that our reach is long and that justice will be served.”
Too bad he doesn’t feel that way about Benghazi.
He’s simply blowing smoke. He’ll do nothing about this too. Or do a Clinton and lob a few missiles over there to divert attention away from this.
Of course he did nothing, except radicalize and soften the leadership in the Middle East for the past several years, so ISIS could usher in an Islamic caliphate. This is not an accident, this has been a plan.
Hence Dick Cheney’s comment that he was not reading his intel briefings.
Yet, he (reportedly) finds the time to read and respond to 10 letters a day.
I'm not as hopeful...
"They can be managed, like a teenager.
Heck, I released their Caliph and their Generals
and THAT makes IS my son."
This is school yard juvenile crap. Call the fat kid fat. Fat kid falls on you and crushes you to death. Fat kid gets up and walks off.
‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
That statement alone should be enough to disqualify him from the office of the President. Of course that assumes he was qualified in the first place
Obama, “Ah ,It’s too much trouble Man”
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