ISIS rise surprised Obama, US intelligence

cnn.com ^ | 12/7/16 | Kevin Liptak

[Hoffer Rand]

Amazing what minor little details you miss out on when you don’t bother to attend your security briefings. Who knew?

[ColdOne]

If he didn’t know about them....why did he have our jets drop leaflets before bombing raids?

[Vehmgericht]

A lot of things were not on Obama’s intelligence radar screen by design. ISIS Oil tanker caravans going to Turkey were also not on his radar. “Do they actually think nobody saw what they did?” We saw but he doesn’t care. As long as he can be interviewed by fools like Zakaria he won’t have had questions.

[TomGuy]

"... was not on my intelligence radar screen," Obama told

Wasn't that about the time he was getting his news from TV news and was not attending security briefings?

Maybe if he had spend more time in those security briefings and less time on the greens, those kinds of things might have shown up on his intelligence radar screen.

[morphing libertarian]

My fondest Obama/isis memory was about two years in he said the pentagon hadn’t submitted a plan to fight isis yet

[PghBaldy]

he also would not meet with Nat Sec people. He is criminally negligent in addition to probably treasonous.

[Vic S]

The western establishment has been using radical Islam for over 100 years. Read:

F Wm Engdahl - The Lost Hegemon
Dreyfus - Devils Game
Mark Curtis - Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam

These books describe the history of western intelligence agencies and their ties to radical leaders. Even the Iranian Coup in 1979 was a CIA plot. CIA agents in Iran were told to leave and the only people left behind were minor staff. The documents were released through foia in the past 2 years and released in Iran (but no mention by the media in the US.)

[ari-freedom]

JV huh??

[MNJohnnie]

I wish he pulled a Clinton. During the 1990s Bill Clinton was famous for throwing underlings under the bus when ever anything was screwed up by his regime.

Would of love to hear O say something like “You will have to go talk to Secretary Clinton about that. That was herarea and we followed her recommendations on Iraq, Libya and Syria.”

[lurk]

If the administration did not know that ISIS was gearing up, they all need to be fired and banned from any future in governmental structure.

[TexasFreeper2009]

wtf?

you GAVE them the weapons you moron!

did you not expect them to use them?

[DoughtyOne]

I  U pumped N in all that E money X and weapons, P but who E could have C predicted T something E like D ISIS
Obama's Unexpected Consequence: #7579

[pinkandgreenmom]

I’m taking a moment to let this sink in.

We are supposed to believe that our president - OUR PRESIDENT - was unaware of the greatest threat to this nation?!

[ColdOne]

;)

[DoughtyOne]

Obama's Unexpected Consequence: #7579
Blame George Bush: #7532
Blame someon else: #46
I screwed up: #0

[vladimir998]

“*UNEXPECTED*”

There’s that word again!

[DoughtyOne]

“:^)

[kaehurowing]

LOL, he and Hillary funded and armed them.

[PGR88]

Obama is probably still surprised at how the toaster works...

[hal ogen]

It is a lie...a continuing lie. Clown Prince nobama and his minions created isis. What dishonest liars.