Why Is The White House Always Talking About Secret Raids?

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Jacob Siegel, Daily Beast: Why Can't the White House Shut Up About Secret Raids?

When it comes to ninja raids on ISIS commanders, crowing about the victory or shutting up about it both have pros and cons.

Anyone paying attention to the escalating war against ISIS took notice last week when the White House announced that a first-of-its-kind special operations mission inside Syria had killed one of the group’s commanders. ISIS members certainly took note. So did U.S. military and intelligence veterans who questioned the wisdom of announcing the clandestine mission less than 24 hours after military helicopters lifted out of Syria.

The raid, which official accounts depict as a daring mission and tactical success, was announced one day after ISIS forces began an offensive on the Iraqi city of Ramadi. Taking control of Ramadi marks the jihadi army’s capstone victory since capturing Mosul last summer. In that light, the decision to go public with the mission, while Ramadi was falling, was taken by some observers as a response to mounting criticisms that U.S. policy was failing to contain ISIS’s advances.

WNU Editor: One words explains why the White House is always talking about secret raids .... that word is "politics".