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CIA: We Should Not Bomb Certain ISIS Targets Because it May Harm Environment
Townhall.com ^ | November 28, 2015 | Justin Holcomb

Posted on 11/28/2015 5:58:29 PM PST by Kaslin

Former CIA director Michael Morell said last week that the White House has hampered the intelligence community's ability to attack oil fields and oil trucks controlled by ISIS. Morell said that, "we didn't go after oil wells, actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls, because we didn't want to do environmental damage, and we didn't want to destroy that infrastructure." He went on to say that there was a pretentious feeling in the war room that bombing ISIS oil targets would indeed cause environmental damage.

On November 18th, Colonel Steve Warren said that striking oil trucks owned by ISIS may cause harm to the drivers who may be innocent.

So, this is a decision that we had to make. We have not struck these trucks before. We assessed that these trucks, while although they are being used for operations that support ISIL, the truck drivers, themselves, probably not members of ISIL; they're probably just civilians. So we had to figure out a way around that.

An entire script of Colonel Steve Warren's press briefing can be viewed here.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: isis
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To: Kaslin

I don’t believe anyone is this stupid.

It sounds like a bunch of crap to keep allowing the money to flow into the hands of ISIS.


21 posted on 11/28/2015 6:13:37 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Kaslin

We can’t attack ISIS controlled oil fields or oil transport because the spills may harm the environment? Obama’s & his CIA are not serious about terrorism and have their priorities wrong.


22 posted on 11/28/2015 6:14:57 PM PST by RicocheT (Only a few prefer liberty--the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories)
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To: Kaslin

...may harm the environment...

The terrorist environment??


23 posted on 11/28/2015 6:17:01 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Kaslin

This is political bullshit, on orders straight from the White House.


24 posted on 11/28/2015 6:17:42 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Kaslin

Morell is now a principle at Beacon Global Strategies, where most of the top people have heavy ties to the Clinton Administration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_Global_Strategies_LLC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Morell


25 posted on 11/28/2015 6:17:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: RicocheT

Obama and his CIA were never serious about terrorism.


26 posted on 11/28/2015 6:18:07 PM PST by sport
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To: Kaslin

DISMANTLE C.I.A.


27 posted on 11/28/2015 6:19:05 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Kaslin

Where is the “satire” label with the title?


28 posted on 11/28/2015 6:19:23 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Kaslin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXodRLLkth4


29 posted on 11/28/2015 6:19:41 PM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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To: Kaslin

“I’m sorry, General Patton, you can’t attach the Germans because the explosions would leave huge, nasty clouds that will ruin The Environment. We’ll just have to surrender, I guess.”


30 posted on 11/28/2015 6:20:07 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Kaslin

Hmm.. And a quick Google search shows that the US had ~300 Navy ships sunk during WWII, and an additional 1500+ from the Merchant Marine.

Then, we add in all the other Allied, Jap, Nazi, etc ships, and your grand total comes to more than 4,000 ships sunk. Along with all the oil and related toxic ordnance. Yet, somehow, the oceans survived that environmental disaster!

So, I don’t think a couple oil trucks getting blown up is going to make much of a difference..


31 posted on 11/28/2015 6:20:18 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Kaslin

CIA ,FBI , Military ,all destroyed


32 posted on 11/28/2015 6:20:22 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: gaijin

He’s either being a Hillary trooper by smearing the Obama Admin (which a month ago or so authorized the FBI to conduct a rigorous investigation of Hillary), or he’s protecting his history at the CIA during Benghazi, by obfuscating the true reasons WHY the US air war on ISIS was pure artifice (i.e. that ISIS was in part or mostly an Obama creation).


33 posted on 11/28/2015 6:20:32 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

Well that’s it . Give in to ISIS or we will ruin the environment. The Obama policy.


34 posted on 11/28/2015 6:21:36 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Kaslin

Wait until Trump hears about this.


35 posted on 11/28/2015 6:24:42 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Kaslin

The environment sets off volcanoes. Unless you plan to explode something that big, don’t worry about it.


36 posted on 11/28/2015 6:25:58 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Kaslin
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37 posted on 11/28/2015 6:26:23 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: Kaslin

Hasn’t anybody noticed that everywhere the muslims rule is a desert? Does anybody connect the dots?


38 posted on 11/28/2015 6:26:30 PM PST by sgtyork
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To: EvilCapitalist

Perfectly said, Cappy! Worth repeating....

” So environment is now code for obola’s allies? “

You NAILED this strategy.


39 posted on 11/28/2015 6:26:40 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Kaslin

They peddled this wacky horsesh*t back during Desert Shield/Storm. You don’t need an “enviomen” if you don’t have a friggin’ head!


40 posted on 11/28/2015 6:27:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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