White House to Congress: We Did Not See ISIL Coming
Senior Obama administration officials’ closed-door briefing to senators Tuesday night revealed that the White House did not anticipate and was not prepared for the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), which has wreaked havoc in Iraq and seized many key cities in recent weeks.
Top State Department and Defense Department officials joined senators Tuesday evening for a briefing on the quickly developing chaos in Iraq and future U.S. plans for a response.
Sources familiar with the brief said that the administration officials repeated talking points issued over the past several days in both open and closed door meetings and had trouble communicating a concrete plan for response.
The brief was conducted by Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson, Assistant Secretary of Defense Elissa Slotkin, Vice Admiral Frank Pandolfe, and an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, according to a senior Senate insider.
The officials told senators that the White House and intelligence agencies failed to predict ISIL’s overwhelming rise and were “not sure what to do,” according to the source.
But just two days ago they did…
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All you need watch is the first minute of the Obama bimbo talking.
I imagine the chilling fear of a red line being drawn was supposed to keep ISIS from crossing the Syria/Iraq border.
Gee, I wonder if every time Obama ARMED Assad’s ”rebels,” (whether ISIS or others) ISIS took them all?
If so, no wonder they are suddenly so strong!
Now that they are picking up bigger armaments in Iraq they out-gun the Iraqi army and even our 300 special forces.
They are not under and Geneva limitations so they are free torture, rape, pillage and murder at will.
Now, they are getting organized for ruling in Ninevah province and forcing protection money (the jizya) the Christians still there from Mosul to the ends of that province.
Every time they take a bank they get richer, too.
Obama agrees with one part of their goals: the end of Israel.
For Obama ISIS is now the ”enemy of his enemy,” and therefore ”his friend.”