Obama will pay a price for blaming intelligence services for ISIS fail

Obama will pay a price for blaming intelligence services for ISIS failures.

President Obama’s 60 Minutes interview, taped last Friday and aired Sunday, is turning out to be a disaster for him, and may even be a tipping point of sorts. There are six dimensions to the disaster.

1. By blaming the intelligence community for his failure to act on the ISIS threat, he ensured that a series of damaging leaks will be coming, and they are already starting.

The UK Daily Mail, always far less constrained than the American media when it comes to revealing information damaging to the American progressive establishment, quotes “an administration insider,” summarized in its own bullet points:

•A national security staffer in the Obama administration said the president has been seeing 'highly accurate predictions' about the rise of the ISIS terror army since 'before the 2012 election'

•Obama insisted in his campaign speeches that year that America was safe and al-Qaeda was 'on the run'

•The president said during Sunday's '60 Minutes' program that his Director of National Intelligence had conceded he underestimated ISIS

•But the administration aide insisted that Obama's advisers gave him actionable information that sat and gathered dust for more than a year

•'He knew what was at stake,' the aide said of the president, and 'he knew where all the moving pieces were'

•Obama takes daily intelligence briefings in writing, he explained, because no one will be able to testify about warning the president in person about threats that the White House doesn't act on

This may be a foretaste of what is to come, as intelligence officials realize they will be sacrificial lambs.

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