Obama’s failed leadership led to rise of ISIS

[American_Jihad]

Obama Inc: We Won't "Stoop" to Bombing ISIS Cities
"We won't stoop to actually winning wars"
November 20, 2015
Daniel Greenfield

We already knew this earlier, but now there is more confirmation.

U.S. military pilots who have returned from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance to launch a strike, according to a leading member of Congress.

“You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can’t drop, we can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us,” Royce said. “I don’t understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit.”

When asked to address Royce’s statement, a Pentagon official defended the Obama administration’s policy and said that the military is furiously working to prevent civilian casualties.

“The bottom line is that we will not stoop to the level of our enemy and put civilians more in harm’s way than absolutely necessary,” the official told the Washington Free Beacon, explaining that the military often conducts flights “and don’t strike anything.”

We won't stoop to actually winning wars. Instead we'll let ISIS murder and rape civilians rather than put them in "harm's way" by bombing ISIS.

This plan worked wonderfully well in Afghanistan, as I documented in The Great Betrayal.

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If we fought WW2, the way that we fight ISIS, the Nazis would have been allowed to kill everybody in Europe to avoid inflicting any collateral damage on civilians.

Obama Inc: We Won't "Stoop" to Bombing ISIS Cities

 

[American_Jihad]

Obama Blocking 75 Percent of Air Strikes Against ISIS
“Believe me, the French are in there not using the restrictions we have imposed on our pilots.”
11.20.2015
News
Mark Tapson

he Washington Free Beacon is reporting that U.S. military pilots fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because the Obama administration would not give clearance to launch a strike.

Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stated that strikes against ISIS targets are often blocked due to the administration policy of avoiding civilian deaths and collateral damage, a policy that is being blamed for allowing the militants to gain momentum and continue waging terrorist attacks throughout the region and beyond. Royce said,

“You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can’t drop, we can’t get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us. I don’t understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit.”

A Pentagon official responded by defending the administration’s policy by saying that the military is working to prevent civilian casualties: “The bottom line is that we will not stoop to the level of our enemy and put civilians more in harm’s way than absolutely necessary":

“The fact that aircraft go on missions and don’t strike anything is not out of the norm. Despite U.S. strikes being the most precise in the history of warfare, conducting strike operations in the heavily populated areas where ISIL hides certainly presents challenges. We are fighting an enemy who goes out of their way to put civilians at risk. However, our pilots understand the need for the tactical patience in this environment. This fight against ISIL is not the kind of fight from previous decades.”

Retired four-star U.S. General Jack Keane agreed with Royce’s assessment and blamed Obama for severely constraining the U.S. military from combating terror forces:

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Some experts are questioning whether the administration is handing off portions of the battle to other nations. Jonathan Schanzer, former terrorism expert at the U.S. Treasury Department, said, “It appears that the U.S. is simply allowing France to strike many of the targets that would usually be reserved for the U.S. and some of its coalition allies.”

Way to lead the fight against ISIS, Obama.

Obama Blocking 75 Percent of Air Strikes Against ISIS

 

[American_Jihad]

Pentagon Inspector General Investigating Obama ISIS Cover-Up
This is the same story as Benghazi
November 23, 2015
Daniel Greenfield

This is the same story as Benghazi. Except this time the intel was being cooked before the attack.

Obama needed to avoid responsibility so pressure was applied downward to produce the correct conclusions. With Benghazi, it happened after the fact. Here it was taking place beforehand since the administration needed to sell the idea that it was beating ISIS.

Now there's an investigation. Expect a few fall guys to be delivered for it, but the cover-up orders were coming from the White House.

In July, a group of intelligence analysts at the U.S. military’s Central Command accused their bosses of distorting and selectively editing intelligence reports about the fight against ISIS in order to portray that campaign as more successful than it really was. As a result of those complaints, the Pentagon’s inspector general opened an investigation.

Now, the allegations of misconduct have extended to a possible cover-up, with some analysts accusing the senior intelligence officials at Centcom, Maj. Gen. Steven Grove and his civilian deputy, Gregory Ryckman, of deleting emails and files from computer systems before the inspector general could examine them, three individuals familiar with the investigation told The Daily Beast.

One U.S. official said the alleged activity could amount to obstruction and interference with the inspector general’s investigation, which began last summer. He noted that files relevant to the investigation began to disappear from Centcom computers after the Pentagon watchdog’s staff began their work.

Has anyone checked Sandy Berger's socks? But it seems like servers are the new socks. It would be funny if Obama and Hillary were both undone by emails.

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Pentagon Inspector General Investigating Obama ISIS Cover-Up

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Bush and Cheney are the Fathers of ISIS...

 

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[Vigilante]

Bush and Cheney are the Fathers of ISIS...

 

[American_Jihad]

Obama: ISIS Wouldn't Be a Problem If Media Didn't Report On It
"There's no ISIS, There's no ISIS, There's no ISIS."
November 23, 2015

Obama always claims he found out about scandals from the "news". He only ramps up the fight against ISIS, when the media's reporting makes it obvious that the group is still a problem. So he has an obvious solution.

If the media would just stop covering ISIS, it wouldn't be a problem.

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Obama: ISIS Wouldn't Be a Problem If Media Didn't Report On It

 

[Mustang]

Obama owns the last seven years, he's changed the planet for the worst...
McCain: Obama’s failed leadership led to rise of ISIS

The Hill
Bradford Richardson
9 hrs ago

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says President Obama’s “failed policies” and lack of leadership have led to the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“It’s because of the president of the United States’ failed policies, ‘leading from behind,’ which has led to this chaos and renewed influence and growth of ISIS,” McCain told John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM-970 on Sunday.

McCain predicted in the interview, which was conducted before the terror attacks in Paris on Friday, that ISIS would take advantage of the migrant crisis to send its operatives to major Western cities.

“I am sure that Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, has already told some of these young men, go into the refugee flow and call us when you get to Berlin, New York, Paris, wherever it is,” he said.

A migrant passport was found on the body of one of the attackers responsible for the Paris massacre.

Greek police have sent the fingerprints of the person registered to the passport to officials in France to confirm the passport belonged to the assailant, according to the Associated Press.

McCain said the U.S. must be “very, very careful” about whom it admits to the country.

“Our hearts go out to them, but we can’t endanger the security of the United States of America,” he said of the migrants.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks on Paris, in which at least 129 civilians were killed and hundreds injured.

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McCain: Obama’s failed leadership led to rise of ISIS

Hmm, most thinking people would blame it on that intellectual lightweight, George W. Bush, who thought he could remake the Middle East by swooping into Iraq. Unfortunately for America and the region, he was absolutely right. He put Iraq in the Iranian sphere of influence, he destabilized the region by not having a sufficient force to keep the peace, and he ushered in an era of sectarian and tribal conflicts which had remained dormant for decades. Way ta go. W!

Yeah, I can see where you'd want to blame Obama.

 

[tinydancer]

Obama owns the last seven years, he's changed the planet for the worst...
McCain: Obama’s failed leadership led to rise of ISIS

The Hill
Bradford Richardson
9 hrs ago

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says President Obama’s “failed policies” and lack of leadership have led to the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“It’s because of the president of the United States’ failed policies, ‘leading from behind,’ which has led to this chaos and renewed influence and growth of ISIS,” McCain told John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM-970 on Sunday.

McCain predicted in the interview, which was conducted before the terror attacks in Paris on Friday, that ISIS would take advantage of the migrant crisis to send its operatives to major Western cities.

“I am sure that Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, has already told some of these young men, go into the refugee flow and call us when you get to Berlin, New York, Paris, wherever it is,” he said.

A migrant passport was found on the body of one of the attackers responsible for the Paris massacre.

Greek police have sent the fingerprints of the person registered to the passport to officials in France to confirm the passport belonged to the assailant, according to the Associated Press.

McCain said the U.S. must be “very, very careful” about whom it admits to the country.

“Our hearts go out to them, but we can’t endanger the security of the United States of America,” he said of the migrants.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks on Paris, in which at least 129 civilians were killed and hundreds injured.

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McCain: Obama’s failed leadership led to rise of ISIS

Hmm, most thinking people would blame it on that intellectual lightweight, George W. Bush, who thought he could remake the Middle East by swooping into Iraq. Unfortunately for America and the region, he was absolutely right. He put Iraq in the Iranian sphere of influence, he destabilized the region by not having a sufficient force to keep the peace, and he ushered in an era of sectarian and tribal conflicts which had remained dormant for decades. Way ta go. W!

Yeah, I can see where you'd want to blame Obama.

Look up Operation Cyclone. Carter. Then come back and post away.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Feinstein Breaks With Obama on ISIS Again!
"There's only one way we are going to diminish them, and that is by taking them out."
11.16.2015
News
Brian Lilley

video:

Democrat Dianne Feinstein is breaking with President Barack Obama once again on ISIS, saying that the terrorist organization is not contained. President Obama had made a comment to the effect that ISIS was under control in an interview with ABC News that aired just hours ahead of the ISIS attacks that struck Paris, France on Friday night.

"I’ve never been more concerned," the senior senator from California told MSNBC Monday. "I read the intelligence faithfully. ISIL is not contained. ISIL is expanding."

Fienstein is no back-bench Democrat, first elected in 1992; she is also the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

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Feinstein Breaks With Obama on ISIS Again!

Obama is president of the United States, not King of the Middle East.

 

[washamericom]

the president do-nothing inaction figure will be a big seller this christmas

 

[auditor0007]

Obama owns the last seven years, he's changed the planet for the worst...
McCain: Obama’s failed leadership led to rise of ISIS

The Hill
Bradford Richardson
9 hrs ago

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says President Obama’s “failed policies” and lack of leadership have led to the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“It’s because of the president of the United States’ failed policies, ‘leading from behind,’ which has led to this chaos and renewed influence and growth of ISIS,” McCain told John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM-970 on Sunday.

McCain predicted in the interview, which was conducted before the terror attacks in Paris on Friday, that ISIS would take advantage of the migrant crisis to send its operatives to major Western cities.

“I am sure that Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, has already told some of these young men, go into the refugee flow and call us when you get to Berlin, New York, Paris, wherever it is,” he said.

A migrant passport was found on the body of one of the attackers responsible for the Paris massacre.

Greek police have sent the fingerprints of the person registered to the passport to officials in France to confirm the passport belonged to the assailant, according to the Associated Press.

McCain said the U.S. must be “very, very careful” about whom it admits to the country.

“Our hearts go out to them, but we can’t endanger the security of the United States of America,” he said of the migrants.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks on Paris, in which at least 129 civilians were killed and hundreds injured.

McCain and Lyndsey Graham never saw a war they didn't love. Bomb, Bomb, Bomb....Bomb, Bomb Iran

They want us to have another 7500 of our good men and women come back home in body bags while another 50,000 are disabled and maimed for life. And this time it will be worse, because we will not be able to leave. We will have to stay there permanently.

 

[asaratis]

Bush and Cheney are the Fathers of ISIS...

ISIS was born in the heart of a demented, radical Muslim pedophile centuries ago. It just changes names at the drop of a head or two.

Go paint your own goddamned house.

 

[American_Jihad]

Climate Change Summit: Obama’s 'Act of Defiance' against ISIS
The president's bad global warming deal exposed.
December 4, 2015
Joseph Klein

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Indeed, President Obama has followed his usual pattern of making commitments on behalf of the United States that potentially damage the national interest in return for very little. He believes, for example, that he forged milestone understandings on climate change with China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, and with India, the world's third biggest greenhouse gas emitter.

China does appear serious, acting in its own national interest, about addressing its horrendous pollution problem, caused in large part by its reliance on coal. It is undertaking ambitious plans for conversion to alternative energies such as solar and wind. It has also announced plans to launch a carbon market in 2017 and has made pledges of financial aid to poorer countries. However, while Obama committed that “America will reduce our emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels within 10 years from now,” China is aiming merely to “achieve the peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030,” according to its INDC. In other words, Obama has ordered drastic cuts in the use of coal by executive fiat with potentially serious dislocations to the American economy. China, which operates by single party government fiat, is taking things much more slowly to ensure as little adverse impact on its own economy as possible. This is Obama’s idea of an historic understanding.

At least China recognizes there is a greenhouse gas emission problem for which it bears some responsibility to solve. India, on the other hand, remains defiant, despite claims of a deep friendship that has developed between Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Modi said on November 30th, the first official day of the COP21 conference, that climate change was not India’s fault. He said the richer nations were responsible for the problem and had benefited from “the prosperity and progress of an industrial age powered by fossil fuel.” Modi added that “we in India face its consequences today.” India’s endemic corruption and poor governance problems are never mentioned.

India’s INDC states that it is up to the people residing in developed countries to “bring down their emission intensity by moderating their consumption, and substantially utilize their investments by employing them for development activities in countries housing a vast majority of people barely living at subsistence level.”

Indian Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar stated his country’s position in even blunter terms last September: "Others are responsible. We are not. We are the sufferers. We are the vulnerable countries, and they [developed nations] are paying part of it. I can call it reparations."

It is amazing how countries like India whine about the costs they say the fossil fuel-based Industrial Revolution has foisted on them, but fail to acknowledge the free ride they have received over the same period of time. They have received huge social benefits, for which they have not paid a cent, from the innovations, improved health, agricultural productivity and higher standard of living made possible by the Industrial Revolution.

If India and other developing nations try to hold out for “reparations” to reimburse them for the harmful climate effects of the Industrial Revolution, it would seem only fair that these countries pay for at least a portion of the technology and other economic benefits they have been free riding on for so many years. None other than Cass R Sunstein, President Obama’s former regulatory czar and husband of US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, raised this very point an article he wrote for the Chicago Tribune entitled On Climate, the Duty to Poor Nations Isn't Clear.

In his Paris press conference, President paid lip service to recognizing “the danger of free riders.” However, he is encouraging it. He is willing to trade the risk of real harm to the American economy from ill-advised executive orders and the redistribution of billions of dollars of American taxpayers’ money in additional giveaways for mostly hot air from the likes of Iran, India and other self-proclaimed victims of fossil fuel.

Climate Change Summit: Obama’s 'Act of Defiance' against ISIS

 

[American_Jihad]

Obama’s ISIS Cover-Up Gets Its Own Speech
Instead of fighting ISIS, Obama wants to fight the Bill of Rights.
December 7, 2015
Daniel Greenfield

Obama began his speech with a cover-up, suggesting that Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik’s bloody San Bernardino massacre was not the work of ISIS.

Whatever dignity his Oval Office speech was meant to convey was lost in his opening sentences as his speech became yet another effort to claim that he hadn’t made a mistake by assuring Americans they had nothing to worry about from ISIS right before its latest terror attack.

Farook and Malik were “self-radicalized”. Their attack was not part of a “broader conspiracy”. But ISIS and Al Qaeda have both embraced a strategy of empowering local supporters to carry out their own attacks by giving them the tools and strategies to do so. Malik pledged allegiance to ISIS. Farook, according to his father, was a supporter of the Islamic State. The worst terror attacks in America in recent years were carried out by these independent Islamic terror cells in support of the Jihad.

These so-called “lone wolf” attacks are part of the broader ISIS and Al Qaeda conspiracy.

Instead of leading the fight against ISIS, Obama is making excuses for his latest failures while trying to once again minimize the threat of the global terror group that he had once described as a JV team.

Back in September, Obama’s strategy for defeating ISIS was, and I quote, "We don't have a strategy yet."

For months we have been hearing that the dog had eaten Obama’s ISIS strategy. It was coming. It was in the mail. It was going to be here soon. It was going to arrive one of these days.

Now, after the latest ISIS terror attack, Obama has finally unveiled his strategy. It consists of doing the same things he’s been doing all along while claiming that he was right all along.

For Obama, success means doubling down on failure.

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Obama’s ISIS Cover-Up Gets Its Own Speech

 

[American_Jihad]

Review: Obama's Internet Fight Against ISIS Failed Miserably
We wouldn't want to upset ISIS by mocking it. That would be Isisphobic
December 8, 2015
Daniel Greenfield

It's no surprise that Obama isn't beating ISIS militarily. But all his talk of fighting ISIS on the internet has also ended in miserable failure.

Considering how much experience Obama Inc. has smearing opponents online, spreading memes and all that stuff, you would think the results would have been better. But I guess progressives just can't get up as much energy fighting ISIS as they can fighting Americans. Also it's rather hard to fight people whose ideology you refuse to acknowledge.

The State Department is considering scaling back its direct involvement in online campaigns to discredit the Islamic State after a review by outside experts cast new doubt on the U.S. government’s ability to serve as a credible voice against the terrorist group’s propaganda, current and former U.S. officials said.

The State Department thought again, it turned away.

The developments are the latest indication of continued turmoil in the Obama administration’s effort to erode the online appeal of a terrorist group that has used a massive presence on social media to attract recruits, radicalize followers and incite attacks against the West.

ISIS' social media presence wouldn't be an issue if Obama actually smashed its real world infrastructure.

But the team “had serious questions about whether the U.S. government should be involved in overt messaging at all,” said a U.S. official briefed on the group’s findings. The group’s skepticism reflected concern about U.S. credibility with Muslim audiences overseas as well as the scant evidence that the State program has diminished the flow of recruits to the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL.

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We wouldn't want to upset ISIS by mocking it. That would be Isisphobic.

Review: Obama's Internet Fight Against ISIS Failed Miserably

 

[American_Jihad]

Suppress Shooters' Islamist Ties, Obama Ordered
How the Radical-in-Chief ordered federal officials to mislead the public about the Jihadist massacre in San Bernardino.
December 14, 2015
Matthew Vadum

On the day of the deadly San Bernardino, Calif. massacre, President Obama ignored FBI-procured evidence that the attack was an Islamic terrorist operation and ordered federal officials to mislead the public about the true nature of the assault.

Although the FBI knew immediately on Dec. 2 that the mass-casualty event was a Muslim terrorist attack, Obama and FBI Director James Comey reportedly clashed over why Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, opened fire around 11 a.m. local time on Farook's municipal government workmates, leaving 14 dead and 21 wounded.

The news comes as investigator Phil Haney, who helped to create the Department of Homeland Security, revealed on Fox News that the government shut down a database he created that might have helped to prevent the attack. Haney says he looked into groups that had ties to Farook and Malik as far back as 2012. But civil rights officials accused him of unfairly profiling Muslims, removed his security clearance, and destroyed the data he collected.

Meanwhile in the Oval Office, the official head-scratching over the events in San Bernardino continued. "mmense political pressure was brought down on investigators to avoid using the term 'terrorism,' with Obama stating, 'It is possible that this is terrorist related, but we don’t know … It is also possible that this was workplace related.'”

President Obama blamed his favorite villains of late, gun-owning Americans, demanding "common sense gun safety laws" and a law blocking individuals on the "No Fly List" from legally purchasing firearms, a measure that would almost certainly violate the Constitution. Around the same time Attorney General Loretta Lynch took the offensive in trying to chill free discussion by publicly threatening to prosecute Americans for anti-Islam statements.

After the shooting, Obama met at the White House with the National Security Council, Lynch, and officials from the FBI, NSA, and Department of Homeland Security. There Obama directed the officials to downplay the role that terrorism played in the Dec. 2 assault, according to SOFREP, a news website for military and Special Operations veterans. The news report notes that such high-level meetings "are not held for mass shootings."

On Dec. 2, intelligence-gathering aircraft appeared to be surveying San Bernardino, the report seems to suggest. Such aircraft "don’t slurp up data from the skies over California unless the government is actively searching for other members of a terrorist cell. The same was done after the Boston bombings and the attempted Times Square bombing."

In the spirit of make-believe that has dominated the Obama presidency, especially in its twilight years, the administration's charade continued for days until it became increasingly obvious this was a jihadist attack. The news cycle keeps interfering with Obama's preferred narrative that under his watch Islamic terrorist groups are on the run.

According to a news report, federal investigators are on tenterhooks, anxious about getting in trouble for doing their jobs:

The FBI is said to be frightened of crossing the White House’s party line while they attempt to investigate the San Bernardino shootings. After 9/11, and the more recent attacks in Paris, law enforcement officials served warrants, investigated known associates, and did what they needed to do to gather evidence and make arrests. Now, the FBI is afraid of investigating the mosque Farook attended, as Obama’s priority seems to be avoiding anti-Muslim backlash. All Director Comey can do is plead with the White House to allow his agents to properly investigate the crime.

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Suppress Shooters' Islamist Ties, Obama Ordered

 

[American_Jihad]

This administration is a cluster/fuck...

Kerry: Assad Doesn't Have to Go, Samantha Power: Yes, He Does
“The meaning of ‘Assad has to go’ has evolved.”
December 16, 2015
Daniel Greenfield

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As one abashed U.S. official told me, “The meaning of ‘Assad has to go’ has evolved.”

"The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change," Kerry told reporters in the Russian capital after meeting President Vladimir Putin.

Okay, but Samantha Power apparently disagrees.

The United States' ambassador to the United Nations says the U.S. position on Syrian President Bashar Assad has not changed: "There is going to have to be a political transition, and Assad will have to go."

Samantha Power spoke to reporters Wednesday ahead of Friday's major international conference on Syria in New York.

So who exactly speaks for Obama? Obama has contradicted both Kerry and Power in the past. But Kerry appears to have the least real influence when it comes to bucking anyone in Obama's inner circle.

Previously, Obama had already humiliated Kerry over Syrian WMDs in much the same way. So did Kerry offer a unilateral concession or are we just playing word games with the definition of "regime change"? That's the clown act Obama is running. Every time the media ridicules the idea of one of the Republican candidates being able to handle the job, what they aren't telling you is that the guy on the job couldn't run a sandwich shop outside a weight less clinic.

Kerry: Assad Doesn't Have to Go, Samantha Power: Yes, He Does

 

[ninja007]

A.J. Don't be fooled this was planned......

 

[American_Jihad]

Ex-Defense Secretary: White House Attacked Me for Warning About ISIS
He still hears complaints to this day from foreign leaders
December 19, 2015
Daniel Greenfield

Former Secretary of Defense Hagel jumped on board the Obama Express assuming that they shared the same basic views. The former Republican Senator found out painfully just how extreme and nasty the White House was. And Foreign Policy gave him a forum to whine about it.

Once again, the biggest issue for Obama was freeing terrorists.

The White House, trying to fulfill Obama’s promise to close the facility that has been condemned by human rights groups as a legal black hole, pressed Hagel to approve transferring inmates to other countries.

But Hagel often refused or delayed signing off on dozens of transfers when he judged the security risk too high, often based on advice inside the Defense Department.

The White House grew deeply frustrated with Hagel over the delays.

“It got pretty bad, pretty brutal,” Hagel said. “I’d get the hell beat out of me all the time on this at the White House. “

Ash Carter, the current Secretary, is under fire over the same issues. And covering up ISIS was also a priority for the White House.

Asked at a press conference in August of that year about the nature of the threat posed by the Islamic State, Hagel told reporters that “this is beyond anything that we’ve seen.” He cited the group’s military skill, financial resources, and adept online propaganda as an unprecedented danger that surpassed previous terrorist organizations.

Some administration officials were not happy with Hagel’s description, and “I got some criticism from the White House,” he said.

But events have vindicated his remarks, he said.

“Then I got accused of trying to hype something, overstate something, and make something more than it was,” Hagel said. “I didn’t know all of it, but I knew we were up against something here that we had never seen before. And in many ways, we were not prepared for it.”

So not very much has changed. Obama and his staffers wanted to free Islamic terrorists and refused to take Islamic terrorism seriously. Susan Rice has far more policy influence than the Secretary of Defense does and just about everything is run out of the White House.

The White House’s penchant for meddling was a frequent problem, Hagel said. Dempsey complained that White House staffers were calling generals “and asking fifth-level questions that the White House should not be involved in,” he said.

Hagel’s predecessors, Gates and Panetta, as well as Michèle Flournoy, the former No. 3 official at the Pentagon, have all criticized the White House’s centralized decision-making and interference with the workings of the Defense Department.

Hagel said the politically motivated micromanagement, combined with a mushrooming bureaucracy at the National Security Council, raises a real risk for the executive branch — potentially undercutting the proper functioning of the Pentagon and other cabinet offices.

Obama hates the Pentagon and the military. His only use for them is to trot them out to endorse Global Warming or some other leftist agenda. Meanwhile there was no plan for Syria or ISIS.

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Ex-Defense Secretary: White House Attacked Me for Warning About ISIS