Trump’s trademark hyperbole set off the leftie media once again last week: Trump charges Obama with being ‘founder of ISIS’ ~

“In many respects, you know, they (ISIS) honor President Obama,” Trump said during a campaign stop in Fort Lauderdale. “He is the founder of ISIS.” ~ [Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Florida, Wednesday, August 10th]

 
 
However, as is the case with many of The Donald’s clumsy, over-the-top declarations, this one’s not that far off the mark, especially after this revelation last week ➡ Scrubbing of ISIS Intelligence Reports For Political Reasons Done at Senior Levels ~

A special congressional joint task force has officially confirmed what has been suspected for months: The Obama administration through U.S Central Command scrubbed intelligence reports showing the rise of ISIS as a critical threat to the United States and the world. The reports were altered for political purposes to present a rosier, less threatening picture of the terror army to the American people. In other words, the administration wanted to prove ISIS was a “jayvee” team as President Obama claimed in September 2014. […]
 
“After months of investigation, this much is very clear: from the middle of 2014 to the middle of 2015, U.S. Central Command’s most senior intelligence leaders manipulated the command’s intelligence products to downplay the threat from ISIS in Iraq. The result: consumers of those intelligence products were provided a consistently ‘rosy’ view of U.S. operational success against ISIS. That may well have resulted in putting American troops at risk as policymakers relied on this intelligence when formulating policy and allocating resources for the fight,” Congressman Mike Pompeo, who served on the joint task force which investigated the matter, said in a statement Thursday.
 
“The cultural breakdown in Central Command’s intelligence process resulted from an administration-wide understanding that bad news from Iraq and Syria was not welcomed. Claims that ISIS was the ‘JV team’ and that al-Qaeda was ‘on the run’ were both a result—and a cause—of the politicization of intelligence at CENTCOM. This intelligence manipulation provided space for both ISIS and al-Qaeda to grow and it put America at risk.“

Last week the mainstream media were busy circling the wagons and painting Trump as a nut job over his assertion. You can bet they’ll rush with the same unbridled enthusiasm… to bury this latest news.
 

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