Thread: Rush Limbaugh: Obama's ISIS Intel Cluster - Now he's throwing the intel people overbo

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Now he's throwing the intel people overboard. "Because even they admit they knew a lot of this for a year, even two years, and they didn't tell me." That's essentially what he's saying. How brazen is that?



Obama's ISIS Intel Cluster
RUSH: Obama says, "Oh, yeah, they knew it, and even Jim Clapper will agree," before Jim Clapper even knows he's agreeing.
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Obama's ISIS Intel Cluster

September 30, 2014


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RUSH: This is Jason in Lake City, Florida. Hi, Jason. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Appreciate it. Hey, quick question. I was wondering if there's any correlation with any of the Gitmo detainees up there fighting with ISIS, and the reason why I'm thinking that is weren't there just five major Gitmo detainees released that were head of Al-Qaeda?
RUSH: Not sure. Recently released, you mean?
CALLER: Couple months ago.
RUSH: Couple months ago. Well, I know that there have been releases somewhat frequently over the past couple of years. I haven't seen anything definitive, but I know what you're talking about. "Okay, we've got these detainees. We're letting them go. There are clear examples in the past of this happening, detainees being let go and returning to the battlefield." It's been common.
CALLER: Yeah, so I wonder if they're releasing these detainees while we're fighting a typical Democrat war.
RUSH: Look, I'm gonna have to check to see if you're right. I don't mean to insult you by not believing you.
CALLER: Oh, no. No worries.
RUSH: I just want to confirm it.
CALLER: I'm just happy I'm talking to you. (laughter)

RUSH: But the problem here is Obama wants to close Club Gitmo. The whole umbrella under which all of this is happening is: "Obama beat the terrorists! There aren't any. Al-Qaeda was decimated. We killed bin Laden! Obama, the valiant gladiator, he finally did it! Bush couldn't do it, nobody could, but Obama came along and did it." By the way, closing Guantanamo Bay, that's a promise to his extremist lunatic fringe base from way back when.
There have been reports that three of the five Taliban released for Bergdahl are now fighting with ISIS. I know I've heard that. You remember Bergdahl? He was the deserter that we negotiated an exchange for, and we got him back and we released five Taliban. I don't know how reliable this is, but I've seen reports that some of the people we released in exchange for Bergdahl are now fighting with ISIS.
It wouldn't be a surprise if that's the case. But clearly there's a an attitude about Islam. It's not just this administration. This goes back even to the Bush State Department after 9/11, convening that forum: What did we do to make them hate us? It's like this penalty in the NFL last night, Husain Abdullah, not to be confused with the king of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. He's a safety for the Chiefs, intercepts a pass from Brady, scores a touchdown.
He gets a 15-yard penalty, unsportsmanlike conduct for praying in the end zone. He slid in there, got down on all fours, dipped his head to the turf and the prayed. He got 15 yards, and the NFL was out of the gate today saying (summarized), "Whoa, whoa! That shouldn't have happened. There was shouldn't any penalty whatsoever! We don't have any penalty for those kinds of displays.
Even the blogs that I look at, the sports blogs make mention. They don't just say, "Chiefs player Husein shouldn't have been penalized." The headline starts with "Muslim Husain Abdullah..." I think there's a general fear that permeates much of our government here in the way that they deal with this reality, and in many ways try to deny the various realities that we face.
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RUSH: Now, just to be clear, there are conflicting reports on whether anybody from Club Gitmo has ended up at ISIS. The report that three of the five Taliban swapped for Bowe Bergdahl are fighting for ISIS comes from a website called PoliticalFears.com. They ran a post in September 15th, a couple of weeks ago. The headline was: "Three of Five Detainees Swapped are Now ISIS Leaders."
But there's some fact-checkers out there at PolitiFact who say the report is untrue, that all the detainees are still in Qatar. "Qatar," for you traditionalists. Now, never mind that Qatar is or was one of the major supporters and funders of ISIS. But PolitiFact is denying it. So they're unconfirmed reports, and I just wanted to make that clear.
Breitbart.com is reporting: "A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014," yesterday. Only 42% of them. "The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama's PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second."

The Daily Mail has a story which we quoted earlier. I just want to remind you. An Obama national security advisor or staffer said it's pretty well known the president hasn't taken in-person intelligence briefings with any regularity since the early days of 2009. He gets them in writing. The presidential brief is also in writings every day, and that's how he takes it. He does not get personnel briefed. Now, just to contrast, the first guy that Jimmy Carter met with every day was his national security guy, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The first person practically every day that Carter met --for all the good it did him, but nevertheless he did, and it was pretty much true of Reagan, and it's been true of pretty much every president. I don't know about Clinton, but what's happening in the world as the president starts the day is a pretty relevant thing and it's generally one of the first items of the busy presidential days.
But only 42% of these briefings have been delivered in person. The other times they've been given in writing, and no one knows obviously if Obama's reading it. I forget who was it. There was somebody in the intelligence community in the first term that said Obama is intimately aware of our briefing, some such thing. They made it sound like Obama's so smart, he knows what's in the brief before he's told. That was the kind of stuff they were reporting about him in the first term.



"He's so smart. He's so up to speed. He's so far ahead of the rest of us mortals. He knows what he's gonna be told before they walk in the room! So don't worry about Obama and intel." The bottom line here is nobody knows if he's actually reading what would be the most useful and important daily summary of the threats that we face. What we do know is that the commander-in-chief has intentionally eliminated the opportunity to discuss the intelligence findings with the, quote/unquote, "experts" who present it to him.
That's a safe assumption.
If he's only attending 42% of the briefings, then he's not able to engage in conversation with them, ask them questions, get further information. He's just reading it, and we don't know if he's even doing that. We're told that's because Obama's smarter and he's more informed than everybody else in the room. No can even keep up with him! So (sigh) that's not comforting, and now he's throwing the intel people overboard. "Because even they admit they knew a lot of this for a year, even two years, and they didn't tell me."
That's essentially what he's saying. How brazen is that? "Oh, yeah, they knew it, and even Jim Clapper will agree," before Jim Clapper even knows he's agreeing. "Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They knew about it. We've known. They did. The news just didn't get to me," or some such convoluted explanation. It's clear that Obama is relying on what he still thinks people think of him, which is the first-term viewpoint that he's unassailable, messianic, brighter, smarter.

He's just loved and adored, respected, feared. People hold him in awe. He still has that view, that that's how he's looked at. I think the guy is dangerously out of touch in a lot of ways. Now, Jonathan Karl,ABC reporter. We don't know for how much longer. They're not using his stuff. Jonathan Karl actually had the audacity to ask, "Well, okay. Who was it, precisely, who underestimated ISIS? Was it US intelligence, or was it a guy who was briefed on the threat repeatedly for more than a year but chose not to make a move until most you will had fallen this summer? ISIS was threatening Baghdad as far back as last December."
So people want to know; Jonathan Karl's out there asking, "Well, who was it specifically who underestimated this?" He's getting answers, but ABC's not running his stuff. The other networks are alluding to it, but ABC isn't running their own reporter's stuff on this, because it is. It's circle-the-wagons time now, around Obama. Look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but this is what you get when you're unserious.
This is the kind of stuff that happens, these are the kind of things that take place when you're engaging in something for reasons that are not genuine. In this case, just to get poll numbers up. This is purely a for-show operation. The real thing that was for show was Obama's speech to the nation announcing this military action. That alone was supposed to drive the poll numbers up.
Now people are starting to ask questions. "Well, what led into this?" These are the questions nobody thought would be ask and for which there really aren't any satisfying answers. So now we've got a cluster, because the operation is not really the operation. It's a political move designed to raise numbers in the polling data. It's not happening.
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Related Links

• Breitbart: Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings
• UKDM: Obama Has Had Accurate Intelligence About ISIS Since BEFORE the 2012 Election, Says Administration Insider
• PolitiFact: Are Three Detainees Swapped for Bowe Bergdahl Now ISIS Leaders?
• Newsbusters: ABC Ignores Own Jon Karl Grilling Josh Earnest, Fox Highlights

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What do you think of this shocking information on what Obama knew or didn't know about ISIS?




What Obama Missed When Blaming NSA Director Clapper for "Underestimating" ISIS
Obama was quick to blame National Security Director James Clapper for our current predicament with ISIS during his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday.
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What Obama Missed When Blaming NSA for “Underestimating” ISIS

By Elizabeth Allen On September 30, 2014 · 146 Comments · In US



“It’s not my fault. It’s his fault,” could be dubbed one of the primary motto’s of Barak Obama’s presidency. We spent the five years hearing how everything was President Bush’s fault. Now he has moved on and it is always anybody else’s fault but his. There is never any personal responsibility taken Obama. I think he missed Leadership 101.
Obama was quick to blame National Security Director James Clapper for our current predicament with ISIS during his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday. “I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” said Obama.

While this is not surprising, what is shocking is the new GAI report revealing just how much the President has been involved in this process.

As reported by Breitbart:

A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.
The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama’s PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second.

He does receive the briefings in writing but one must assume he is just not reading them. It adds a whole new dimension to his statement of “I think.” Clearly he doesn’t know. How could he know anything because he doesn’t attends fewer than half of his own PDB’s.
This is not residing well with the intelligence community at all. As reported by the Daily Beast, word of the interview left on former official “flabbergasted”:

One former senior Pentagon official who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq was flabbergasted. “Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” the former official said.

A White House staffer tells the Daily Mail:

‘Unless someone very senior has been shredding the president’s daily briefings and telling him that the dog ate them, highly accurate predictions about ISIL have been showing up in the Oval Office since before the 2012 election,’ said a national security staffer in the Obama administration who is familiar with the content of intelligence briefings.

Even the House and Senate intelligence committees knew what was coming. As reported by the Daily Beast:

In prepared testimony before the annual House and Senate intelligence committees’ threat hearings in January and February, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the recently departed director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the group would likely make a grab for land before the end of the year. ISIS “probably will attempt to take territory in Iraq and Syria to exhibit its strength in 2014.” Of course, the prediction wasn’t exactly hard to make. By then, Flynn noted, ISIS had taken the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, and the demonstrated an “ability to concurrently maintain multiple safe havens in Syria.”

This is yet another example of just how disengaged the Obama seems to be these days. I wonder which day he will play golf this week? It is scary to think what damage he will do over the next two remaining years of his term. What do you think?


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[Watch] Greta to Whiny, Childish, Trash-Talking Obama – Act Presidential, Act Like a Leader

Posted on 2 October, 2014 by Rick Wells



Greta Van Susteren starts off by saying, “When leaders blame others they sure don’t look like leaders, they look absolutely childish.” She wasn’t talking about Benjamin Netanyahu, David Cameron, Vladimir Putin, or even Bashar al-Assad. Her subject resides a little closer to home.
She continues, saying, “And it’s distressing that ‘president’ Obama is often quick to blame others. On Sunday night he threw our intelligence community under the bus, they’re not happy about that.” She then plays a clip of Obama at it again, this time naming an old, familiar target, Fox News, in a speech before a group of students.
He cited how well obamacare is working in the real world and how it is represented as a threat to freedom by Fox News. Both of those statements are patently false, but lying for the sake of political gains is how this guy operates.
She points out that in these troubling times, we need the “president” to act presidential. “That means not blaming others or acting cool in front of a bunch of students by blaming Fox for whatever ails him or his administration.”

She notes that his comments once again indicate that Fox is getting under his skin. She recommends that Obama “skip the trash talk. It only diminishes the office of the president.”
That is one of the few things that Obama has done well. He has diminished the office of president like no other.

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