Wow: Senior intelligence officer says mission to save James Foley failed because of Obama

Young Conservatives ^ | 8/21/2014 | Joshua Riddle

[Beave Meister]

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer (Ret.) is a CIA-trained former senior intelligence officer and he says that the rescue operation for American journalist James Foley wasn’t successful because President Obama “dragged his feet”.

"Thursday morning, Shaffer appeared on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., to discuss the ISIS execution of American journalist James Foley earlier this week. He told me and co-host Brian Wilson that the recently revealed rescue attempt led by Special Forces earlier this summer failed because President Obama was slow to give the go-ahead:

I’m hearing from my friends in the Pentagon, they are giving him every single option way ahead of time. And let me give you a little secret here: The reason that raid into Syria failed to get Foley and those guys was because the president drug his feet. He waited too long, the intel got stale, and by the time we actually gave the “go” word it failed because we just didn’t react quick enough."

[Mad Dawgg]

for later

[9YearLurker]

Fits perfectly with everything we know about Barry.

[9YearLurker]

That’s actually the opposite of what we were told about the OBL raid: supposedly had to be executed despite Barry and Val’s repeated stalling and dithering.

[Jagdgewehr]

Should’ve used a “sarc” tag.

[combat_boots]

0bama has publicly said that he would not retaliate if the US were attacked with a nuke.

[bert]

The President is a ditherer. He will never make a decision. While dithering,he hopes the problem will go away.

Barack Obama is America’s enemy number 1. He will get us all killed

[Caipirabob]

[bert]

———obama didn’t want his muslim brothers killed-——

I would argue that is not the reason. The real reason is that Obama is incapable of making a decision. He dithers.

What you suggest involves making a decision.

[Puppage]

He CAN make up his mind: In the Illinois Senate, he definitely decided .... to vote “Present” every time.

Silly me...you're absolutely correct. :-)

[Cap Huff]

Ping

[Secret Agent Man]

not really. he made that decision a very long time ago.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Beave Meister.

[garjog]

Obama exchanged five terror kingpins for a traitor.

This is aiding the enemy.

Nobody cares?

Can Obama do ANYTHING and nothing happens?

[GOPJ]

The reason that raid into Syria failed to get Foley and those guys was because the president drug his feet. He waited too long, the intel got stale...

When it's important - when a street thug was shot by a white cop - Obama got up with Holder lickity split. Obama moves when it matters...