President Obama - Profiles in Leadership

[sean miguel]

By Peter ******, Washington

9:03PM BST 29 Sep 2014

President Barack Obama was facing a fierce political backlash on Monday night after he blamed US intelligence chiefs for being caught by surprise by the sudden rise of the Islamic State (Isil) ****** movement in Iraq and Syria.

In a highly unusual step, Mr Obama singled out James Clapper, his director of national intelligence, when asked by a television interviewer whether he had underestimated the threat posed by Isil after its fighters burst across the Syrian border into Iraq this summer, capturing large swathes of territory.

“I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” Mr Obama told CBS News.

So he throws his DIA director under the bus while he's been getting daily intelligence breifings on the rise of ISIS for over a year and after they took over Fallujah back in January, Obama smugly dismissed them as a JV team wearing a Kobe Bryant jersey.

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To hear Obama talk, he personally ****** Osama Bin Laden but it's James Clapper's fault that ISIS was underestimated.

I don't remember James Clapper being on the ballot in 2012.

This is your community organizer at work folks.