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.

[MeshugeMikey]

thise intel briefings are just TOO MUCH for Obie....

[hondact200]

What Price will the US have to make for Obama’s really ignoring the problem of ISIL? What more do you expect from a half witted narcissistic apostate muslim whom claims he is born again. Really Obama was born again according to Hawaiian birth Records Obama probably was born somewhere but Hawaii accepted birth records from anywhere just so they could claim they were born there. Unfortunate a certificate of live birth from either Canada or Kenya does not constitute American citizenship.

Maybe someone will finally leak the birth records, college transcripts and financial aid transcripts. But I will not hold my breath!

[skeeter]

The media spent all Monday reporting on the secret service exaggeration re: the White House intruder instead of covering the demonstrable whoppers Obama told 60 Minutes the night before.

[I want the USA back]

He will not pay a price. He enjoys the special protection afforded him by his genes.

[Da Coyote]

Dear intelligence community, we know you are sharp. We know you really detest the vermin currently infesting the White House. Think of it, you wouldn’t hire this idiot to do your floors, and he’d still fail that.

Take him down.

Now!

You’ll 1) save the country, 2) aid in the end of the MSM, and 3) redeem yourselves in the eyes of the populace.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Bump.

[Don Corleone]

To the CIA and the NSA the whole world is their Ft. Marcey Park!

[ameribbean expat]

I wouldn’t hold my breath either. I would, however, look to see if a series of damning revelations emerge in the runup to the election.

The big misread here by the administration is that the intel community is not the military. I wouldn’t want to piss off people whose sole purpose in life is to collect generally unknown but perhaps actionable information.

The press is malleable. If the network(s) and outlets getting the scoops have the eyeballs advertisers want, the suits in the corporate offices will start demanding coverage.

[Organic Panic]

I can’t help but think his constant throwing of everyone under the bus has something to do with the White Hut invasions of late.

[oldbrowser]

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

Barry Insane Obama has already said that he feels he is smarter than his advisors. I don't think he feels the need to listen to their advise.

[Vaduz]

And you never will the media is pure left.

[353FMG]

Pray tell, what price will Obama pay?

Lower popularity?

I’m sure it causes him sleepless night.

[CincyRichieRich]

How do you make a president look bad who wants the US to look bad and the presidency? To leak something that only makes him look bad but not the US nor the US presidency/office is tough.

[kaila]

I cannot remember the details, but when ISIS was on a motorcade into their first Iraq city, there were hundreds of ISIS fighters the road going to the city. It would have been easy to take out a huge chunk of them at that time via air strikes, but we did not do anything.I remember people commenting on this forum while it was happening,and that we should send aircraft to bomb them.
Does anyone remember that, and knows more detail? I think that was the beginning of this whole ISIS takeover. If Obama was on his game, the threat could have been eliminated then.

[peeps36]

He is the head finger pointer. That’s about all he does. He blames other people for his failures and takes credit for things he doesn’t deserve credit for. He’s a narcissistic little prick.

[kiltie65]

I liked the acronym WORM...”what Obummer really meant” that was used by his aides to change statements he made that were constant and detrimental to his campaign. Now if we could only come up with words to go with Snake and he is well past wormhood.

[Zenjitsuman]

I won’t believe this prediction until Obama’s secret past is leaked.

[Lazamataz]

The UK Daily Mail, always far less constrained than the American media when it comes to revealing information damaging to the American progressive establishment

Isn't this like 90% of the problem in America?

An American Propaganda Ministry, lockstep and in perfect unity, carefully printing only one side of every story -- the leftist side.

I expect within the decade that there will be a Information Wall erected so that we in America will not be able to view the UK Daily Mail.

Can't have anything disrupt the Propaganda Ministry official storylines.

[wetgundog]

CIA revelation number 453: This guy is a inept, gay, fairy, who likes it where the sun don’t shine.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

At this point, Obama is completely immune to anything the intelligence community can throw out. The press won’t cover it, and the rest of us already know how horrendous he is.