Seek - maybe you can help... Are they lying to Obama and Congress, to the American people or to the press?
It makes a difference if our leaders are being lied to..
Here’s the key:
“Another source said Obama officials were not open to “the narrative that ISIS is winning.”
From the reporting I’ve seen, if it doesn’t fit Obama’s political agenda, he & his officials don’t want to see it. Obama is not being mislead (IMO). This is like the Benghazi situation - they knew almost immediately it was a terrorist attack, but that didn’t fit the political agenda, so they said it was the video. Obama knew the truth then ... he knows the truth that ISIS is not “the JV team” now.
RE: Seek - maybe you can help... Are they lying to Obama and Congress, to the American people or to the press?
Here’s my take — Obama is NOT interested in hearing about the TRUE state of Iraq and Syria. All he wants is news that his policies are succeeding.
He has already fired a lot of his competent military staff ( Generals and Intelligence Officers ), he’s now surrounded himself with lackeys who simply work to give him what he wants to hear.
Congress? Most of them know this but a lot are not interested in making a huge deal out of this ( especially the Democrats ).
The Press? I would say that many of those who have access to the inner circle of the administration know what’s going on but have kept this under wrap until Obama has been safely re-elected.
And since, most Americans rely on the mainstream press, and a huge number don’t bother to inform themselves, we’ll have to learn a costly lesson.
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It seems the leaders are leaning on “they” who analyze, causing them to lie by omission of truth. One could reasonably conclude such a scenario comes from the top.
It makes a bigger difference if the source of the obfuscation demands is the "leadership" itself...
Why lie at all?