{"id":55523,"date":"2014-09-30T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55523"},"modified":"2014-09-29T18:11:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T22:11:34","slug":"abc-obama-was-warned-about-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55523","title":{"rendered":"ABC: Obama was warned about ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC<\/a> is starting to impress me. They have an article which refutes the President’s claim on 60 Minutes the other day that the intelligence services were caught off guard by the ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State folks. <\/p>\n

At the White House daily briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest cast the net quite a bit wider.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody was surprised to see the rapid advance that ISIL was able to make from Syria across the Iraqi border,\u201d said Earnest. \u201cTo be able to take over such large swaths of territory in Iraq did come as a surprise.\u201d <\/p>\n

But for nearly a year, senior officials in the U.S. government have been warning about the alarming rise of ISIS, or ISIL as the terrorist group is also known, and the inability of the Iraqi government to confront the threat.<\/p>\n

Here are three examples: <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not going to C&P the rest of the article, but you should click over and read how intelligence officials in the Obama Administration warned the administration about the exact outcome that we’re witnessing. And here’s the press conference where the conversation above took place;<\/p>\n