Posted on 09/29/2014 8:11:34 AM PDT by pabianice
Obama says intel officials 'underestimated' rise of ISIS Never autoplay videos
One wouldn't be surprised if President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, woke up Monday morning checking for tire tracks after his boss effectively threw him under the bus for having "underestimated" the threat posed by the Islamic State militant group.
But Obama's remarks in a "60 Minutes" interview drew immediate objections from lawmakers and the intelligence community.
In the interview, Obama was asked how the Islamic State was able to gain so much territory. "Our head of the intelligence community Jim Clapper has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," the president said.
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Considering that Clapper has lied to Congress, and admitted it, GOP should call for Clapper to be fired..let's see Barack defend him...
Only thing on Obama’s resume is PPP
Piss
Poor
President
SOP for Captain Midnight
Obama never attends his daily intel briefing ,he reads it ,LOL,
Couldn’t happen to a better guy.
All of those under him didn’t deserve it though.
Reads it on the way to the golf course.
Part of his intellectual act.
You’ll drive yourself crazy trying to parse Obama’s grammar. Without Bill Ayers scripting it for him it is an incoherent mess.
Obama the expert...
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,”
“I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors.”
“And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
“I probably know more about Judaism than any other president”
“I Can Do Any Job Better Than the People I Hire to Do It”
And one of my favorites via Tommy Vietor explaining why Obama skips his intelligence briefings,
“Unlike your former boss [President Bush], he has it delivered to his residence in the morning and not briefed to him.” “he is among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.”
Harumph... He's not smartest even when he's alone...
There’s a few Republicans missing from that picture...couldn’t have done these things without their consensus.
“Our head of the intelligence community Jim Clapper has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” the president said.”
And the low information voters that elected your sorry a$$ (twice) overestimated your ability to lead this “once” great nation, way to wreck America odumbo....great job.
Reading it does not mean he Understands it
From the article in speaking about helping Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom the U.N. has accused of war crimes:
“I recognize the contradiction in a contradictory land and a contradictory circumstance,” Obama said.”
HUH?!
There is nothing quite like the beautifully constructed deflection of a serial liar who has never taken responsibility for anything that went wrong on his watch.
I’d bet that the poor dumb schmuck cant order a pizza over the phone
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