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Obama faces backlash after blaming intel community for missing ISIS
Fox News ^ | 9/29/14

Posted on 09/29/2014 8:11:34 AM PDT by pabianice

Obama says intel officials 'underestimated' rise of ISIS Never autoplay videos

One wouldn't be surprised if President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, woke up Monday morning checking for tire tracks after his boss effectively threw him under the bus for having "underestimated" the threat posed by the Islamic State militant group.

But Obama's remarks in a "60 Minutes" interview drew immediate objections from lawmakers and the intelligence community.

In the interview, Obama was asked how the Islamic State was able to gain so much territory. "Our head of the intelligence community Jim Clapper has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," the president said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; islaminside; noaccountability; obamainterview; obamalies; totaltreason; treasonisthereason; usintelligence
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To: pabianice

Let’s not be so quick...he might be right here. He rarely if ever attended the intelligence presentation so it is probably factually correct they did not tell him there was a problem!! Our ignorant half breed muzzie leader is the perfect sergeant shultz when he says I know nothing. Unfortunately his supporters in the media never follow up with some pointed questions to assess the depth behind his comment i.e. when is someone going to ask him where were you on the evening of Bengazi and what and when did you know about it?


21 posted on 09/29/2014 8:20:11 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: pabianice
Obama-the-First-Undocumented Tyrant speaks fluent Arabic
AND brought in Hasan and Hamas and al Qaeda (aka "rebels",IS).

CIA finds 1 in 5 flagged job applicants hail from Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda

Al-Qaeda, Hamas operatives applied for CIA jobs, say new Snowden files

22 posted on 09/29/2014 8:20:18 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: molson209

I doubt he even reads it. He doesn’t believe in terrorism.

But youre right, he wouldn’t understand it if he did read it.


23 posted on 09/29/2014 8:20:42 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Vaduz

Piece Prize Prez


24 posted on 09/29/2014 8:20:44 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Organic Panic
...he has it delivered to his residence in the morning and not briefed to him.”...

This is because he is an insecure malignant narcissist. Face to face contact with someone who actually knows the material is to be avoided at all costs. It could lead to an uncomfortable intrusion of reality. He could be expected to ask intelligent questions of his briefer. That would be awkward.

25 posted on 09/29/2014 8:21:43 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: pabianice
For having such incredibly big ears, Obama still needs to learn to listen to people who know what is going on. Do we laugh or cry? Maybe both. The Great OZ has spoken.
26 posted on 09/29/2014 8:22:04 AM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: pabianice

The NSA, FBI, and CIA can regain the respect they once had by revealing what they know about the Obamadorkthing.

Come on, ladies and gents of those formerly respected agencies, you know what a complete sleazebag this grifter is. You also know that the American public considers all of you to have integrity little better than Al Sharpton.

You know his background.

You know his birth certificate has the value of a confederate dollar bill.

You know he’s a muzzie sympathizer, if not a complete (despicable) Muslim.

Reveal it, d*mmit.

Bring this breating pile of excrement down.


27 posted on 09/29/2014 8:22:55 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: PTBAA
Id love to hear em discuss the Liberty CIty Seven.....

seven defendants were charged with several counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism......-[ ISLAMIC TERRORISM ]



http://blackagendareport.com/content/liberty-city-7-trial-foretaste-things-come
28 posted on 09/29/2014 8:22:56 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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To: molson209

Sounds like he reads it on the john right before he uses it for toilet paper...


29 posted on 09/29/2014 8:24:00 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Note to self : put this between arrow keys: img src=""/)
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To: molson209

This is absurd.

Anyone else remember, some of the more extreme liberals, blamed Bush for 9/11? The smoking gun for them was the presidential intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, which contained a warning that Bin Laden wanted to hijack airplanes.

Other liberals criticized Bush and his people for not “connecting the dots” to anticipate and prevent 9/11. Anyone else remember all of that?

Yet in this case, will Obama take any blame for bad intelligence????? What are the liberal criteria for evaluating this situation????


30 posted on 09/29/2014 8:24:24 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: going hot

Can’t use that one it didn’t work out to well another Obama failure.

bottom line on card reads: Everything I touch turns to s*it.


31 posted on 09/29/2014 8:24:59 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

The reverse Midas.


32 posted on 09/29/2014 8:26:51 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: pabianice
Jim Clapper has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria

Does anyone else think this is worded strangely? So, Clapper acknowledges that ozero thinks he muffed it, but that is a far cry from Clapper saying that Clapper muffed it. I also noticed the injection of the "I", he just can't keep from talking about himself.

33 posted on 09/29/2014 8:27:11 AM PDT by lafroste (matthewharbert.wix.com/matthew-harbert)
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To: pabianice
Just remember that is was Clapper who called the Muslim Brotherhood a “largely secular organization.”
34 posted on 09/29/2014 8:28:07 AM PDT by Andyman (The truth shall make you FReep.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

What are the liberal criteria for evaluating this situation????

Soft bigotry of VERY LOW expectations!


35 posted on 09/29/2014 8:28:37 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: pabianice

There is only one person responsible for this, and he’s the one who was born in kenya.


36 posted on 09/29/2014 8:28:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: going hot

Spot on


37 posted on 09/29/2014 8:32:24 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: PTBAA
There is nothing quite like the beautifully constructed deflection of a serial liar who has never taken responsibility for anything that went wrong on his watch.

From a comment on THIS article

"This does remind me of the time I got rich selling fertilized chicken eggs. I went out and bought several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. I kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced. Following those roosters around used up precious time so I formulated a plan. I bought some tiny bells and attached them to the roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so I could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now I could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

My favorite rooster, old Barack, was a very fine specimen, but one morning I noticed old Barack's bell hadn't rung at all! When I went to investigate, I saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for cover. To my amazement, old Barack had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. I was so proud of old Barack that I entered him in the County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result was the judges not only awarded old Barack the “No Bell Piece Prize” but they also awarded him the 'Pulletsurprise” as well.

Clearly old Barack was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and hosing them when they weren't paying attention?

38 posted on 09/29/2014 8:32:55 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Valerie Jarrett warned us they would "get even with those who opposed them"..)
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To: Da Coyote

Never going to happen. Those agencies work at the behest of the President and nobody else.


40 posted on 09/29/2014 8:36:52 AM PDT by Boogieman
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