Wrong Intell?

Oh snap!! Here's a shot of Jager for breakfast!

If 44's Intelligence Posse totally blew the IS chiz - reckon it's also wrong on Iran's new clear chicanery?

There is likely much gnashing of teeth in the intelligence community today in the wake of 44’s interview with 60 Minutes Sunday night. He laid the blame for the rise of the Islamic State at the feet of the intelligence community. “Our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that, I think, they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” said the commander in chief on national television.

Not true, reports Daily Beast. “One former senior Pentagon official who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq was flabbergasted,” writes Lake, then quoting his source: “Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshidding.’”

It’s not a good sign that the president and the intelligence community are at odds over intelligence on the Islamic State.

 

However, there’s an even more serious concern in the offing over the Iranian nuclear program. If, as 44 claims, the intelligence community was wrong about the Islamic State, how can it be trusted to get Iran right? Or, alternately, how can the president be trusted not to blame his own failures on others?

The White House has repeatedly claimed, “We have the capacity to monitor the Iranian nuclear program… We would know if they were to make a so-called breakout move towards developing such a weapon.” 

 

Pic - "Trying to shift the blame for a foreign policy crisis away from the White House and towards the nation's intelligence community."