Declassified DIA documents reveal Obama administration ordered CIA to train ISIS
"Beck went on to share a recently declassified Department of Defense document that seems to suggest the Obama administration knew about the potential for a radicalized group like the Islamic State, but allowed it to flourish in hopes that it would topple Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The Defense Department paper is from 2012, months before Election Day.
"The election was nearing," Beck said. â[A]nd they were in the midst of a horrible PR disaster, trying to appear strong on terror as terrorism was surging.â
The document describes a strong potential for a Salafist, or orthodox Sunni Islamic, movement to arise in Syria. The Islamic State had not yet declared its desired "caliphate," but Beck said the intelligence community was "spot on.""