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Obama Admits U.S. Intelligence Didn’t See ISIS Coming

posted by n1 on Monday September 29 2014, @03:13PM   
from the wasn't-looking,-too-busy-listening dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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

• Re:I guess that's settled, then. Re:I guess that's settled, then. (Score: 0, Troll) by VLM on Monday September 29 2014, @03:27PM

  by VLM (445) on Monday September 29 2014, @03:27PM (#99622)

  If most of their taps are on targets like the Republicans in the senate or their own factional opponents in their own party, unless those guys are also in charge of ISIS by pure coincidence...

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• Re:I guess that's settled, then. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @11:00PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 29 2014, @11:00PM (#99819)

  Not the IRS, you tool.

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