What the hell, Barry! The only way I am, uh, you are gonna
get out of this whole ISIS, uh ISIL, mess is to blame intel.
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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They just played a clip from this interview on ‘60 Minutes’ on local media...did anyone else hear the interviewer refer to ‘ISIS’ as ‘ISIL’?
The “intelligence community” — it’s their job to know what’s about to happen — simply should not be surprised by this ...
Everything Clown Prince nobama does or doesn’t do is intentional. The traitor wanted ISIS to rise and prosper.
What the hell, Barry! The only way I am, uh, you are gonna
get out of this whole ISIS, uh ISIL, mess is to blame intel.
“did anyone else hear the interviewer refer to ‘ISIS’ as ‘ISIL’?”
Their name is an acronym of whatever they are calling themselves at the moment.
First it was Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham or ISIS. Then it was Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL. Now they just call themselves The Islamic State.
It’s the same group of Religion of Peace savages no matter what you call them.
P*ssing off your spooks is NOT a smart career move, Barry.
He’s a communist - of course he lies.
He’s an islamist - of course he practices taqiyya.
‘ISIL’ is meant as an insult to Israel, since that acronym implies that they are part of/will be possessed by the Islamic state.
Obama only aims to convince his core voters, not the rest of us, and he’s gambling that there are still more of them than there are of us, whatever the polls may say.
Even the most casual observer, knows this is Par for the course, when dealing with obama, don’t know why they would ever have different expectations.
Doesn’t matter anyway, these things have no adverse effect on the king, his minions will be all out to cover his butt.
That might have been the case years ago, but the entire government has become corrupted. There are no longer consequences for being wrong or incompetent. The only thing that will get a government worker in trouble is disloyalty to the party.
It’s not exactly an insult. It’s more an announcement of their intention to take over the entire eastern Mediterranean. They’ll kill anyone who isn’t part of them, Jews, Christians, “infidel” Muslims.
Just the Religion of Peace spreading peace & love.
Obama would blame his dog before he’d admit one mistake. He used AA and his lies all his life. He is still using race and lies.
Your assessment is more accurate...some days one just can’t find the right words.
The beans have been spilled. Everyone knows, no one cares enough to do anything about it
“””It’s high time to spill the beans about this imposter.”””
Go ahead. Tell the media. I’m sure they will get right on that.
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