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Not Only Did Obama Lie About Growing Al Qaeda Threat, He Did Nothing About It
Originally published on LonelyConservative.com
Last night the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy article about how after the Osama bin Laden raid President Obama lied to the public about the growing threat of al Queda. Worse yet, he did nothing with the treasure trove of intelligence gathered during the operation. National security played second fiddle to the 2012 election.
The United States had gotten its hands on al Qaeda’s playbook—its recent history, its current operations, its future plans. An interagency team led by the Central Intelligence Agency got the first look at the cache. They performed a hasty scrub—a “triage”—on a small sliver of the document collection, looking for actionable intelligence. According to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, the team produced more than 400 separate reports based on information in the documents.
But it is what happened next that is truly stunning: nothing. The analysis of the materials—the “document exploitation,” in the parlance of intelligence professionals—came to an abrupt stop. According to five senior U.S. intelligence officials, the documents sat largely untouched for months—perhaps as long as a year.
You should read the whole thing if you can, there is so much more. It’s one example after another of how US intelligence officials knew what al Queda was up to, and did nothing to stop it while Obama lied about it. But as usual, Republicans probably won’t do anything about it and the rest of the media will be too busy talking about llamas, or the latest viral silliness of the day, to report on it.
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Source: http://lonelyconservative.com/2015/03/not-only-did-obama-lie-about-growing-al-qaeda-threat-he-did-nothing-about-it/
