White House To Congress: We Did Not See ISIL Coming -- Washington Free Beacon
Obama administration officials briefed senators on chaos in Iraq.
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.
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My Comment: The White House does have a problem ..... they were warned 6 months ago of an impending Isis-Baathist offensive in Iraq .... but they choose to ignore it. This is not an intelligence failure .... this is a political failure .... and we now need to know who dropped the ball on this one.
Update: Official: Intelligence community warned about 'growing' ISIS threat in Iraq -- FOX News
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