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A series of new reports about the Obama administration’s rolling ignorance and willful inaction in dealing with a burgeoning Islamic terror threat throughout the world are raising serious questions about the current administration’s true intentions.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who formerly served as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under President Obama, recently suggested on Fox News that the White House has allowed ISIS to gain power in the Middle East by ignoring intelligence information.
“Nobody can sit here today, particularly given the amount of intelligence the White House got and say ‘We didn’t know this was a problem.’ Give me a break,” he said on “Kelly File.”
Flynn said that the intelligence Obama received while he headed DIA between 2011 and 2014 very clearly outlined the ways in which the Islamic terror threat was expanding.
“Where intelligence starts and stops is at the White House,” he said. “The president sets the priorities.
“The accuracy and the warnings that have been provided on the rise of radical Islamists … have been very, very clear.”
In other words, Obama was telling a huge lie when he insisted that ISIS was a “jayvee” threat last year or he wears earplugs during his daily intelligence briefings.
It’s probably a mixture of both.
Last week, former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson made the shocking claim that she’s spoken to people close to the Obama administration who say the president completely disregards intelligence reports about certain terror organizations with which he sympathizes.
Attkisson said that people who have “worked in the Obama administration … firmly believe he … has closed his mind” to new information about terrorists “that he does not consider terrorists.”
“He does not … listen to the people with whom he disagrees,” she said. “He seems to dig in … because he thinks he’s right.”
This all comes as the Pentagon reviews whether intelligence analysts on the ground were urged to make ISIS appear less threatening in reports used to determine how the U.S. would move forward in dealing with the group’s emergence on the world stage.
That’s pretty convenient for Obama.
The New York Times reported: “President Obama and senior intelligence officials have acknowledged that the Islamic State’s rapid emergence caught them by surprise. At the least, the prospect that senior officials intentionally skewed intelligence conclusions has raised questions about how much Mr. Obama, Congress and the public can believe the military’s assessments.”
The president said that he has ordered military officials to “get to the bottom” of the scandal and assured reporters that he demands accurate intelligence.
“I have made it repeatedly clear to all my top national security advisers that I never want them to hold back, even if the intelligence or their opinions about the intelligence, their analysis or interpretations of the data contradict current policy,” he said. “If there are disagreements in terms of how folks are interpreting the facts, then that should be reflected in the reports that we receive. … And that’s part of what I weigh in terms of making decisions.”
That’s funny. Even if he was given rose-shaded national security information rather than willfully ignoring reports of ISIS’s rise, couldn’t he have just read the news to know something seriously bad has been unfolding in the Middle East? That’s where he seems to have discovered all the other ways his administration has failed.
In coming weeks, expect to hear a lot about how Obama was misinformed about “moderate” rebels in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East — those same rebels every sane observer outside the Beltway has long recognized as extremists without intelligence information. Expect Obama to blame someone else for his belief that ISIS was “contained” the day before the Paris terror attacks. And expect ISIS to continue expanding, while Obama passes the buck.
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