Snake Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 A former Pentagon official confirms to Fox News that detailed and specific intelligence about the rise of ISIS was included in the PDB, or the President’s Daily Brief, for at least a year before the group took large swaths of territory beginning in June. The official, who asked not to be identified because the PDB is considered the most authoritative, classified intelligence community product providing the President with analysis of sensitive international events, said the data was strong, and “granular” in detail, adding a policy maker “… could not come away with any other impression: This is getting bad.” The official who has close knowledge of the process said the President, who reads the PDB unlike his predecessors who traditionally had the document briefed to them, was not known to come back to the intelligence community with further questions or “taskings.” Asked to describe the frequency, the former Pentagon official said “not generally.” After suggestions that the administration may have been blindsided by the rise of ISIS, and that poor intelligence was to blame, the former Pentagon official said some of the intelligence was so good it was described as “exquisite”. According to Lt. General Michael Flynn, who was Obama’s former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Obama White House ignored reports warning about the rise of ISIS in 2011 and 2012 because they did not fit Obama’s reelection narrative that al Qaeda was on the run and that we were winning the war on terror. “I think that they did not meet a narrative the White House needed. And I’ll be very candid with you, they just didn’t,” Flynn told CNN in 2015. “I think the narrative was that al Qaeda was on the run, and (Osama) bin Laden was dead. … They’re dead and these guys are, we’ve beaten them.” So, while Obama was warned, repeatedly, with accurate and actionable intelligence about the rise of ISIS but failed to act, the alleged Russian bounties were, according to an intelligence official, uncorroborated, and only reached low levels at the NSC because there was dissent within the intelligence community about its accuracy. It never appeared in a presidential daily briefing. Territory in Iraq was quickly lost to ISIS as they grew in strength and numbers thanks to the incompetence and inaction of the Obama-Biden administration. It took Donald Trump becoming commander in chief to defeat ISIS. https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/07/01/flashback-obama-repeatedly-ignored-intelligence-briefings-on-the-rise-of-isis-n595008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted July 2, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 2, 2020 Oh...so you excuse Trump because Obama did it too..interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 We all know how ISIS came about. Saudis, Brits and Israel wanted Syria so they got Obama and McCain to provide training and Intel to paid soldiers and Saudis and turkey gave them weapons. Besides the billions in hardware we left in Iraq that they took. However Trump has recently publicly said Assad does NOT need to be removed from power now so that only took 11 years to walk back but good on Trump nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 After Syria they were going to send them (ISIS) into Iran. Damn solemeini screwed that up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainecat Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 What was the root cause of the Iraq war as it was called? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 23 minutes ago, Mainecat said: What was the root cause of the Iraq war as it was called? He threatened us. Bad move post 9/11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Let's remember who was VP during that time. Hell, the person democrats want as POTUS has done nothing and has been in washington for DECADES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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