Though the spy agencies have refused public comment after President Obama said they “underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” privately officials are lashing the White House for the comments.
The officials say they repeatedly warned the president and other officials about the growing risks of ISIS, and that the White House is trying to scapegoat them for ISIS’ growth.
Interestingly, White House spokesman Josh Earnest seemed contrite about the president’s comments, insisting he had never meant to fault them in any way or to suggest he had anything but a “high degree of confidence” in the assorted spy agencies.
Yet Obama’s comments were just a paraphrase of National Intelligence Director James Clapper’s own comments on intelligence failures in the lead up to the war, which sought to placate Congressional hawks who wanted the war to start earlier.
The entire scenario is about blaming game, the entire scenario is about knowing what they have done and still doing wrong, but, by blaming it on the other is the way by these people not to admite to their wrong doing, not to admite to their deceitful and fradulant politics.
More likely the scenario is for the administration to do what's good for their funders while feeding contradictory tit-bits to the streets by way their plethora of overlapping agencies and the inbred media. This keeps the TVs blasting and the plebs at each others throats. How else can the "two party system" survive and the top tier prosper?
Perhaps Clapper is where the intel dropped thru the cracks – sitting on the intel so Obama wouldn't (have to) deal with it – as well as protecting his warmongering buddies desires for more war. Or maybe he's just incompetent. He should have been fired long ago (and prosecuted) for lying to Congress and the American people.