Why Obama Can’t Say His Spies Underestimated ISIS

The Daily Beast ^ | 09.28.14 | Eli Lake

[george76]

On “60 Minutes,” the president faulted his spies for failing to predict the rise of ISIS. There’s one problem with that statement: The intelligence analysts did warn about the group.

Nearly eight months ago, some of President Obama’s senior intelligence officials were already warning that ISIS was on the move. In the beginning of 2014, ISIS fighters had defeated Iraqi forces in Fallujah, leading much of the U.S. intelligence community to assess they would try to take more of Iraq.

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after Obama’s interview aired, one former senior Pentagon official who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq was flabbergasted. “Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” the former official said.

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other senior intelligence officials have been warning about ISIS for months

[Red Badger]

THEY DIDN’T.
HE DID............

[Red Badger]

“Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” the former official said.

BOTH............

[realcleanguy]

In Obama’s defense, he only knows what the intel folks tell him. So if Susan Rice or John Brennan, James Comey, or Jeh Brown tell Obama something, he has to believe them. unfortunately these positions have been highly politicized under the Democrats that it’s difficult to believe anything any of them say

[MeshugeMikey]

[caligatrux]

the president faulted his spies for failing to predict the rise of ISIS. There’s one problem with that statement: The intelligence analysts did warn about the group.

What Obama means is: since he never went to any of the intelligence briefings, and only skimmed the intellgience reports they sent him between holes on the golf course, they didn't highlight, bold and underline the parts about ISIS being dangerous enough so he would bother to notice.

[Diogenesis]

The first-undocumented-Tyrant reads arabic fluently.

Denial that the knows what is going on
... is laughable or treasonous.

[null and void]

THEY DIDN’T.
HE DID............

Agreed, they didn't, but...
HE KNEW, HE LIED, HE WANTED TO DO ALL HE COULD THAT THEY WOULD SUCCEED.

It was deliberate, cold, calculated, malignant neglect.

[mountainlion]

Is 0bama sunni?

[jsanders2001]

Yes. Obama is Sunni but he smells more like Shiite...: )

[george76]

yes

[jsanders2001]

First black president. Worst president.

[Ray76]

That’s it alright. Hard to believe people fell for the street hustle jive talk.

[Don Corleone]

The CIA may not be the best people to have put you on their Shiite list.

[Cannoneer]

There is one thing certain, the Buck never stops at this White House.

[MeshugeMikey]

Indeed...

I wnder if Obies ever met John Doe number two??

[Vaduz]

Everything about Obama is BS he’s a clueless loser.

[InterceptPoint]

Is 0bama sunni?
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I agree. Once a Muslim, always a Muslim. To disobey means death. Obama was raised a Sunni Muslim. His actions as President have greatly advanced the Sunni Muslim radicals in Iraq, Syria, Libya and, based on current plans, in Afghanistan as well.

The only reason we have to believe that Obama is not a Sunni Muslim or a Muslim at all is based on his claim that he is a Christian. I’m of the belief that actions will always speak louder than the words of a congenital liar, a tag that perfectly fits our current President.

His only major failure has been in Egypt where General Sisi and the Egyptian people have rejected the Muslim Brotherhood. That is the same Muslim Brotherhood still favored and supported by both Obama and Hillary that now infests our Federal Government.

[onedoug]

“My dog ate my homework.”

[Resolute Conservative]

“His only major failure has been in Egypt”

Surely you jest?