Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Reuters: Obama to discuss Islamic State at CIA next week
U.S. President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of his National Security Council next week at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters to review the fight against Islamic State militants, the White House said on Friday.
The meeting, to be held on Wednesday, comes as the administration weighs a plan to increase the number of U.S. special operations forces deployed to Syria to try to advance recent gains against Islamic State.
The top U.S. general, Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said he is working on options to present to Obama to increase U.S. forces in Iraq to bolster Iraqi forces preparing for a major offensive against the militant group in Mosul.
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WNU Editor: No major changes in policy or strategy are expected.
2 comments:
More photo ops and PR to keep up the polls #s until he leaves office and hopeful high positives as he exits buoys his "legacy" in the near term.
The CIA as backdrop for a dog & pony show.
What would happen if the CIA ran an op against the president solely to expose the truth of his past?
Of course the appointed bootlickers could not know.
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