Obama will pay a price for blaming intelligence services for ISIS failures.

American Thinker ^ | 09/30/2014 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

President Obama’s 60 Minutes interview, taped last Friday and aired Sunday, is turning out to be a disaster for him, and may even be a tipping point of sorts. There are six dimensions to the disaster.

1.  By blaming the intelligence community for his failure to act on the ISIS threat, he ensured that a series of damaging leaks will be coming, and they are already starting.

The UK Daily Mail, always far less constrained than the American media when it comes to revealing information damaging to the American progressive establishment, quotes “an administration insider,” summarized in its own bullet points:

• A national security staffer in the Obama administration said the president has been seeing 'highly accurate predictions' about the rise of the ISIS terror army since 'before the 2012 election'
• Obama insisted in his campaign speeches that year that America was safe and al-Qaeda was 'on the run'
• The president said during Sunday's '60 Minutes' program that his Director of National Intelligence had conceded he underestimated ISIS
• But the administration aide insisted that Obama's advisers gave him actionable information that sat and gathered dust for more than a year
• 'He knew what was at stake,' the aide said of the president, and 'he knew where all the moving pieces were'
• Obama takes daily intelligence briefings in writing, he explained, because no one will be able to testify about warning the president in person about threats that the White House doesn't act on

This may be a foretaste of what is to come, as intelligence officials realize they will be sacrificial lambs.

[MrB]

Really?

I have yet to see a leftist politician held accountable for anything.

[Travis McGee]

[tgusa]

I agree. Wishful thinking.

[brownsfan]

BS. For whatever reason, Obama is beyond retribution. Obama can do whatever he likes with absolutely no fear of consequences.

[Common Sense 101]

When? The POS hasn’t taken responsibility for any of his failures in the last six years, and the libtard enemdia is going to circle the wagons for the limp-wristed terrorist enabler until he leaves office.

[Iron Munro]

[SMARTY]

It’s a “politicians’” disease and it’s endemic to the profession.

[Diogenesis]

"Army Major (Hasan) Played Role in Presidential (Obama) Transition"

[pepsionice]

I think the logical perception here is that he wanted ISIS to be nothing of a consequence, and therefore refused to recognize their growth or threat. Somewhere in the background, I think the players of ISIS were part of the whole Libyan arms deal structure from three years ago. We probably had first-name relationships with several of their players, and on the priority scale....felt they were better folks to deal with than Assad of Syria. Remember....even McCain fell into this way of thinking (the photo is still around to remind us of that).

So a whole group of people in Washington (beyond the President himself) are playing out this bogus ISIS growth thing. Even the media is playing along.

And now? Assad is getting inside info as to when we bomb ISIS in his own country. Imagine thinking that type of relationship three years ago.

[Liz]

[Liz]

One report asserted: "Obama takes daily intelligence briefings in writing so that no one will be able to testify about warning the president in person about threats that the White House doesn't act on...."

OTOH, Obama gets twice-daily tallies on his offshore holdings in person as they come into the WH from around the globe---so that he can act upon insider Congressional reports from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

Remember, people-----the C-in-C appointed Valerie Jarrett his "Senior Deputy Advisor." In the parlance of Chicago criminal politics, that means "wire transfer artist."

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......others in the intelligence community blasted Obama......said he’s shown longstanding disinterest in receiving live, in-person PDBs that allow the C-in-C the chance for critical followup, feedback, questions, and the challenging of flawed intelligence assumptions......

Even more alarming is that know-nothings like Jen Psaki, Mary Harf and the execreable Suzan Rice and Samantha Powers are all getting top secret info.

Its chilling to know "anything for a buck Hillary" was also privy to US intel.

Plus....the WH ding-a-ling apparently gave top secret clearance to 5 million of his henchmen burrowed deep inside the US govt apparat.

What are these people doing w/ top secret intel? Selling it to our enemies?

[tet68]

Leakage!
It’s what this administration needs!
The inner cadre has been tight lipped so far
but they have pissed on their underlings for
too long.

Payback is a Biotch.

[Uncle Miltie]

The c.i.a. and n.s.a. are pussies. Obama screws them, and they take it, smile and ask for “more please!”

Right?

[TexasCajun]

[Awgie]

Obama You Are A Disgraceful POS!

[luvbach1]

...the president has been seeing 'highly accurate predictions' about the rise of the ISIS terror army since 'before the 2012 election'

That is if he had attended his national security briefings at more than slightly more than 40% of the time as reported.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Obama takes daily intelligence briefings in writing, he explained, because no one will be able to testify about warning the president in person about threats that the White House doesn't act on"

An interesting theory that rings true!

[dandiegirl]

Until the intelligence community/communities spills the goods on BO’s background he is safe.

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

Time to run some Senate commercials asking “Are you less secure than six years ago?”