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Ex-intel chief: Obama ignored ISIS to get reelected
INN ^ | 12/2/2015, 10:21 AM | Ari Yashar

Posted on 12/02/2015 10:10:48 AM PST by Olog-hai

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Michael Flynn, former head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 2012 to 2014, told CNN on Tuesday that US President Barack Obama ignored a report in 2012 about the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) because it didn't meet his reelection "narrative."

Flynn just this Sunday told the German Der Spiegel that the US was "dumb" to release Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi back in 2004, classifying him as "harmless" and allowing him to go on to form ISIS. ...

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Politics/Elections; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abubakralbaghdadi; cnn; derspiegel; dia; germany; iraq; isis; michaelflynn; mikeflynn; obama; obamaisis; rop; syria; waronterror
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1 posted on 12/02/2015 10:10:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Obama LIED about Benghazi and the “youtube video” — to get reelected.


2 posted on 12/02/2015 10:11:44 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

Power at ANY price. And Congress just lets it keep going on.


3 posted on 12/02/2015 10:12:43 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Olog-hai

The Voters also ignored everything and reelected him


4 posted on 12/02/2015 10:13:30 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: EagleUSA
VOTERS elected him....people need to look in the mirror....voters elected him TWICE and it has enabled congress to be just as cavalier as the voters...

good going....

5 posted on 12/02/2015 10:14:40 AM PST by cherry
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To: Olog-hai

As late as it is that man must be brought up on impeachment charges.


6 posted on 12/02/2015 10:16:04 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: cherry

And the Republicans didn’t put up much of a fight based on who they nominated against him.


7 posted on 12/02/2015 10:16:19 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

Bush released Bagdadi. Big mistake.


8 posted on 12/02/2015 10:18:04 AM PST by jennychase
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To: Olog-hai
Zero Dark Thirty movie photo: Zero Dark Thirty Obie-Movie_zps553abe96.jpg WE had bin Ladin in the cross-hairs and it took Barry, what--over a hundred days to decide to pull the trigger?
9 posted on 12/02/2015 10:18:23 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: dfwgator

They didn’t put up any fight at all.


10 posted on 12/02/2015 10:19:57 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Olog-hai

> Obama ignored a report in 2012 about the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) because it didn’t meet his reelection “narrative.”

His narrative was, he was committed to closing down GTMO, and that he wasn’t a muzzie himself, so, yeah.


11 posted on 12/02/2015 10:20:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Olog-hai

Fail on Romney’s part.

That idiot Romney had all sorts of info at his disposal.

That is why Trump is winning now, because he says things straight and clear.

At most Romney might gingerly suggest something, and back off later.


12 posted on 12/02/2015 10:21:26 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cherry
.voters elected him TWICE

And they'd do so again.

13 posted on 12/02/2015 10:21:29 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Olog-hai; jennychase

“The head of this band of savages is a man named Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the new Osama Bin Laden,” Pirro said. “A man released by Obama in 2009, who started ISIS a year later.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jun/19/jeanine-pirro/foxs-pirro-obama-set-isis-leader-free-2009/

There have been several articles — from Slate, and NBC among others — that place Baghdadi at a detention facility in Iraq called Camp Bucca in 2009 (when Obama would have been president).


14 posted on 12/02/2015 10:22:08 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Yeah, there’s that. And then there’s everything else that he’s lied about. I truly believe he is a soulless person because that’s the only type of individual that can continually lie and not feel any guilt.

JMHO.


15 posted on 12/02/2015 10:24:04 AM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: Olog-hai
because it didn't meet his reelection "narrative."

"Narrative" is another word for "storytelling".

16 posted on 12/02/2015 10:27:05 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Olog-hai

No government pensions were harmed in the making of this story.


17 posted on 12/02/2015 10:27:28 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Olog-hai
General, you're about three years too late with that revelation. That puts you staunchly in the Courtney Massengale camp.

All I need to know is that not one high ranking officer resigned their commissions over the strategic misdeeds of the Obama Administration.

18 posted on 12/02/2015 10:28:21 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Olog-hai

General Flynn blamed the creation of ISIS on the Bush Admnistration:
“Former U.S. Military Official Says George W. Bush Created ISIS”
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/12/01/former-military-official-says-george-w-bush-created-isis

In my humble opinion, General Flynn is not to be trusted.


19 posted on 12/02/2015 10:32:33 AM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: Don Corleone

Since we obviously have no Constitutional protection to arrest and purge treasonous politicians I’m wondering if there is a fail/safe military group assigned to protect our Constitution and Republic. Politicians seem to mired in the power and corruption of DC to put our Republic first. This is incredibly distressing and this admin has over a year to go and we have no brakemen.


20 posted on 12/02/2015 10:34:18 AM PST by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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