Obama given detailed intelligence for a year about rise of ISIS

Clementine

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Obama is too damn friendly toward radicals and it should concern everyone. If he's not giving them billions in money and pricey military equipment, he's paving the way for radical groups to take over. How can he knowingly do nothing while they gain strength and advance. Now there are warnings that ISIS will be in Europe within a month and to the U.S. in two months. Meanwhile, liberals laugh when you mention the porous southern border, as if no terrorist would dare follow the other illegals into our country.

As ISIS does it's best to carry out the threat of spreading and killing infidels, the left sits there and blames Bush without expecting Obama to do anything.



Obama, unlike his predecessors who traditionally had the document briefed to them, is known to personally read the daily brief. The former Pentagon official, who has knowledge of the process, said Obama generally was not known to come back to the intelligence community with further requests for information based on the daily report.

The claims come as the Obama administration continues to launch airstrikes against Islamic State targets in northern Iraq and weighs whether to expand that campaign, particularly into Syria.

The president's team has publicly suggested that the group only recently gained in strength, accounting for why Obama earlier this year dismissed such extremists as akin to a "JV" team.

But 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 in the region, that when the president drew a red line on chemical weapons use in Syria in 2012, the information was "exquisite."

The source said "[we] were ready to fire, on a moment's notice, on a couple hundred targets," but no order was given. In some cases, targets were tracked for a "long period of time" but then slipped away.
 

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