Title | Obama Admits U.S. Intelligence Didn’t See ISIS Coming | |
Date | Monday September 29 2014, @03:13PM | |
Author | n1 | |
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from the wasn't-looking,-too-busy-listening dept. |
Time reports on statements made by President Obama during an interview:
When asked about comments by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has said the U.S. overestimated the ability and will of the Iraqi military to fight the extremist group, Obama said, “That’s true,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s absolutely true.”
Obama had already admitted that the rise of ISIS took the U.S. by surprise. “I think that there is no doubt that their advance, their movement over the last several months has been more rapid than the intelligence estimates and I think the expectations of policymakers both in and outside of Iraq,”
Statement by the President on Iraq: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/09/statement-president-iraq
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