Posted on 09/29/2014 8:43:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night, President Barack Obama placed blame squarely at the foot of the US intelligence community for the rise of the Islamic State, the extremist group also known as ISIS.
Citing comments from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Obama said the intelligence community had "underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," referring to the rise of ISIS militants in the country's northeast.
But American spies, experts, and journalists who have been watching the progress of ISIS, the extremist offshoot of Al Qaeda, immediately pushed back against the president's assessment.
"Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting, or he’s bullshitting," one former senior Pentagon official who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq told Eli Lake of The Daily Beast.
“Everyone realized that Syria was HQ for them," a senior Defense Department official told The Washington Post.
McClatchy correspondent Jonathan Landay reported in July that the Obama administration was "well aware of the group’s declared intention to turn its Syrian sanctuary into a springboard from which it would send men and materiel back into Iraq and unleash waves of suicide bombings there."
The threat posed by ISIS did not go publicly unmentioned by the administration.
Landay notes that on Feb. 5, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk told House committee that ISIS' operations were "calculated, coordinated, and part of strategic campaign led by its Syria-based leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. ... The campaign has a stated objective to cause the collapse of the Iraqi state and carve out a zone of governing control in western regions of Iraq and Syria."
And Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who recently left his position as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, warned about the group back in February,
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If I had to guess, I'd say both.
Obama: “WAH!!! It’s everybody elses fault! BooHoo! Nobody listens to me! Sniffle they are trying to make me look bad!
President Blamethrower.
Obama a lying, lazy, Chicago political, scum bag who is famous for not reading his super secret daily briefs? Who would have thought that?
By whom is he getting shredded? Dedicated leftists who would vote for him or Hillary if the cost was their first born? Urban ferals? Suburban ferals? Illegal immigrants voting illegally?
So he’s getting shredded by 4 people in the intelligence community who will vote for him or his successor anyway because they are lifetime government teat-sucking bureaucrats interested in preserving their jobs; but 20 million people whose lives utterly suck but they cannot connect the dots from US government policy to their condition but think getting their next government check is pretty damned important if they want to be able to pay their rent...those 20 million are shredding him?
Wake me up when this gets to the point of being 1/100,000th of a mosquito bite.
For the love of God, how is this piece of crap still not impeached?
It’s high time to spill the beans about this imposter.
The man must go back to being a Community Organizer in Chicago before we all die.
ISIS is another part of the Greater Caliphate project that Obama has helped in Libya, Syria, and tried to help in Egypt along with various other jihadi movements which received arms from the collapse of Libya. He has only become “concerned” because of the political blow back in the US prior to the November election.
....Or so he claims.
In other words....SU
What goes good with crow??
Nice he gets up at the crack of dawn to do this.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/complete
Agreed. They are not mutually exclusive.
One sign of a stupid person is they give stupid excuses that don't make any sense.
It was a victory for affirmative inaction.
He’s a liar
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