tinydancer
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They didn't act until too late.
Daily Beast is breaking a big story. French Intel shared their information on the hostages location in March and the Brits in June. All three hostages are dead now.
Obama and his security team didn't trust their intel. Damn. This is a sad article. Brits and French are frustrated because they believe the hostages might have been saved if Obama had acted early enough.
"British intelligence had learned in May of last year from released ISIS captives the locations of two or three places where hostages were being held captive, according to the Daily Beast.
The UK also had surveillance images from satellites and drones, and the results of some 'electronic eavesdropping.
The information wasn't certain until early June, however. By then the British government had a 'positive identification and that information was shared with Washington,' according to a British source who spoke with the Daily Beast.
National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan insisted that 'U.S. forces conducted this (rescue) operation as soon as the president and his national-security team were confident the mission could be carried out successfully and consistent with our policies for undertaking such operations.'
But Foley's mother Diane said the U.S. also had intelligence from the French government about the hostages' whereabouts as early as March 2014 but did nothing about it."
Obama White House dithered as UK told them ISIS hostages Kayla Mueller James Foley intel Daily Mail Online
DITHERER-IN-CHIEF: President Obama, shown yesterday with Secretary of State John Kerry and outgoign Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, allegedly wasted precious time last year without acting when British and French intelligence pinpointed possible locations where ISIS was holding US hostages
Daily Beast is breaking a big story. French Intel shared their information on the hostages location in March and the Brits in June. All three hostages are dead now.
Obama and his security team didn't trust their intel. Damn. This is a sad article. Brits and French are frustrated because they believe the hostages might have been saved if Obama had acted early enough.
"British intelligence had learned in May of last year from released ISIS captives the locations of two or three places where hostages were being held captive, according to the Daily Beast.
The UK also had surveillance images from satellites and drones, and the results of some 'electronic eavesdropping.
The information wasn't certain until early June, however. By then the British government had a 'positive identification and that information was shared with Washington,' according to a British source who spoke with the Daily Beast.
National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan insisted that 'U.S. forces conducted this (rescue) operation as soon as the president and his national-security team were confident the mission could be carried out successfully and consistent with our policies for undertaking such operations.'
But Foley's mother Diane said the U.S. also had intelligence from the French government about the hostages' whereabouts as early as March 2014 but did nothing about it."
Obama White House dithered as UK told them ISIS hostages Kayla Mueller James Foley intel Daily Mail Online
DITHERER-IN-CHIEF: President Obama, shown yesterday with Secretary of State John Kerry and outgoign Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, allegedly wasted precious time last year without acting when British and French intelligence pinpointed possible locations where ISIS was holding US hostages
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