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Yes, Obama Knew about ISIS [Dereliction of Duty]
American Thinker ^ | 10/01/2014 | Silvio Canto Jr.

Posted on 10/01/2014 6:51:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Yesterday, we said that President Obama was either reckless or incompetent.  He either didn't pay attention at the briefing or kept the country in the dark about ISIS.

Today, I'm leaning toward the irresponsible, or a major dereliction of duty that we have not seen in U.S. history.

According to a U.K. newspaper,  President Obama was told about ISIS back in 2012, or before the presidential campaign:

President Barack Obama's intelligence briefings have provided him with specific information since before he won re-election in 2012 about the growing threat of the terror group now known alternatively as ISIS and ISIL, an administration insider told MailOnline on Monday. 

'Unless someone very senior has been shredding the president's daily briefings and telling him that the dog ate them, highly accurate predictions about ISIL have been showing up in the Oval Office since before the 2012 election,' said a national security staffer in the Obama administration who is familiar with the content of intelligence briefings.   

The staffer declined to share anything specific about the content of those briefings, citing his need to maintain a security clearance.  

But 'it's true,' he said, 'that the [intelligence] community was sending pretty specific intel up to us.'  

'We were seeing specific threat assessments and many of them have panned out exactly as we were told they would.'

Yes, this news report is based on a nameless source, but it is credible.  We've heard similar comments from others.

It's clear now that President Obama chose to overlook the ISIS threat for purely political reasons, or the 2012 reelection campaign.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: intelligence; isis; obama
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1 posted on 10/01/2014 6:51:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Americans, in general, just don’t care.


2 posted on 10/01/2014 6:54:13 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: SeekAndFind

His actions have been nothing short of outright treason toward this nation. That treason should be dealt with in the way that all nations deal with those who defile their sanctity.


3 posted on 10/01/2014 6:55:06 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SeekAndFind

BUT BUT BUUUUUUSSSSSSHHHHH


4 posted on 10/01/2014 6:55:46 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Don Corleone

Treason was committed when he released the 5 Taliban members back onto the battlefield for no good reason. That’s the pure definition of treason, yet he got away with it scot free.


5 posted on 10/01/2014 6:57:59 AM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: SeekAndFind
According to a U.K. newspaper, President Obama was told about ISIS back in 2012, or before the presidential campaign:

Oh. So, roughly, right around the time of the attack on our Consulate in Benghazi.

6 posted on 10/01/2014 6:58:13 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: All

Who can forget the stupidity of his cheering audiences when he repeated his lie over and over again as a 2012 campaign reelection ploy: “Bin Laden is dead and al Queda is on the run.”


7 posted on 10/01/2014 6:59:19 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: Organic Panic
It's only GWB's fault in that he's responsible for regime change in Iraq and it's been a failure. Plenty of blame for both GWB and Obama.

And what about Romney? He was getting press briefings. He probably couldn't say anything about the ISIS threat. But why did he back off on campaigning about Benghazi? We're now all pretty sure those Benghazi weapons for "friendly rebels" in Syria ended up with ISIS.

8 posted on 10/01/2014 7:00:04 AM PDT by grania
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To: SeekAndFind

King O’Bumbler’s inaction isn’t due to lack of information or his famous air-headed incompetenmce.

It is because he is rooting for the New Caliphate


9 posted on 10/01/2014 7:00:26 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit -- Sheryl Crow)
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To: dandiegirl

5 Taliban traded for a deserter. And Obama leaves a good Marine to rot in a Mexican jail. Despicable.


10 posted on 10/01/2014 7:29:44 AM PDT by ImNotLying
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s a pathological liar as well as an enemy islamist. He helped create it. He’d go over and claim his caliphate but that they’d saw off his head.


11 posted on 10/01/2014 7:41:13 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: SeekAndFind
>"Yes, Obama Knew about ISIS [Dereliction of Duty]"

I'd say so! He created them to overthrow Libya, Egypt, and Syria!

Derelict? No.

Treasonous? No, he'd have to be a US citizen for that.

Saboteur? YEP!

12 posted on 10/01/2014 7:45:25 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: ImNotLying

Some of the 5 Taliban traded for a deserter have been reported to be fighting with ISIS (per Limbaugh’s show yesterday


13 posted on 10/01/2014 7:51:46 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, he knew. He hoped we wouldn’t notice that his true love was murdering, raping and pillaging innocent people who didn’t belong to their cult.
When the subhuman savages murdered a reporter he couldn’t hide it any longer and got on TV, pretended to be mad, and hoped that would shut us up.


14 posted on 10/01/2014 7:56:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“a major dereliction of duty”

That is a good way to put. Or maybe AWOL. Whatever the term used the b@srard should be impeached. He does not have the teremerity to resign on his own for the good of the country.


15 posted on 10/01/2014 7:58:59 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SeekAndFind
King Obama, a communists black Muslim traitor. What else do we need to impeach and try for treason.
16 posted on 10/01/2014 8:19:28 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: brownsfan
Americans, in general, just don’t care.

As things continue to deteriorate in the United States MORE Americans will 'care'. That's NOT a good thing.

When a country's doing well citizens are free to live their lives, love their families and concentrate on their own lives. THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE.

In third world hellholes every citizen has to be 'involved' and 'care' - because their lives might depend on who they know or what they know...

Obama and the filthy liars in the Democrat Party are attempting to make this into a third world hellhole where we all are forced to "care". If you don't hate democrats this is a good place to start... They're horrible people...

17 posted on 10/01/2014 8:31:54 AM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: dandiegirl

Agree. He and his Czars with his blessings have engaged in countless acts of treason plus they have broken almost every law this nation has. From Fast and Furious where Holder arms the Mexican drug cartel to Obama creating ISIS in Libya, and before that he supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, then the weapons ISIS got from Benghazi, add the Taliban released for the traitor Bergdahl, and; the list goes on and it grows.


18 posted on 10/01/2014 8:45:08 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: SeekAndFind

We are told that obama uses an iPad to read the intelligence briefings. I bet that obama is skipping the reading and playing video games instead.


19 posted on 10/01/2014 8:48:32 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: GOPJ

The hate should hopefully turn into the loss of the Senate for these haters of our constitution and everything our founding fathers stood for.


20 posted on 10/01/2014 8:50:17 AM PDT by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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