Conservative Co-Terrorists Undermine War Effort

“Conservative media is dubiously claiming that the rise of the Islamic State is due in part to President Obama skipping scheduled daily intelligence briefings. The basis of this claim is a misleading interpretation of how intelligence briefings are received by the White House that was debunked two years ago.”

We are at war with ISIS and other terrorists.  Co-terrorist propagandists have failed to notice this as they undermine the war effort by slandering the Commander in Chief. A Co-terrorist is anyone who uses a terrorist attack for personal gain, or, exaggerates a threat for political reasons.

Instead of encouraging the Republican controlled Congress to come back to Washington and discuss the war in a public forum, they chose to become Sappers for the AWOL Deserters who could have done their own investigation into terrorism – as followers of Paul Revere! Instead they pushed for vaginal probes, and the defunding of school lunches!

sapper

noun    (Concise Encyclopedia)

Military engineer. The name is derived from the French word sappe (“trench”), which became connected with military engineering in the 17th century, when attackers dug covered trenches to approach the walls of a besieged fort and also undermined the walls by tunneling beneath them

Saddam Hussain was a real conservative guy, as is the leader of North Korea. What would they do with sappers and traitors? Bush’s daddy, and the conservatives, bought W a Holy Crusade to go on, and punish the leaders of Iraq for not being just like them. Imagine if North Korea attacked America for being too liberal and sexy? Well, that is why Bin Laden attacked us on 911 and he says so. Bin Ladin was extremely conservative, a real prude, or was he? Almost every armed terrorist pretends to be a Prude for Allah. We are at war with Puritans who make political hay by going after sexy liberals – Bohemians! It’s a friggen Witch Hunt that Witch-Thatcher began in England! Her son was a gun-runner for Arabs and right-wing militias!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thatcher

The Conservative Liars – lied to all Americans about why we had to attack the leader of Iraq, who did not attack us. They then made a deck of cards ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ – and hung the leader of the Sunni. These dudes on the cards became the leaders of ISIS that is engaged in Head Hunting! Gee, where did they get this from? Note the black hood on the hangman.

The Intelligent Agencies under Bush did not have a clue about REVENGE, that these people conduct pay-back Jihads for hundreds of years, or, they ignored the warning!

Why didn’t the Do-gooders for Jesus approach the Secret Service and ask how they were doing?

“Do you need more funding?”

The FBI should raid Fox News and arrest the Sappers for Treason, along with the Koch Brothers. Then, lock up Cheney and Bush who is saying “it is not over” after he declared “Mission accomplished”. Putting the blame on President Obama appears to be the political tactic of the Republican Sapper as they build trenches up to the November Elections so they can render the Commander in Chief even more powerless. Who would ISIS vote for?

Jon Presco

Every day, the president receives a Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), a highly secret intelligence document. The right-wing criticisms are citing a four-page report from the conservative Government Accountability Institute (GAI), which alleges that Obama has only attended a daily briefing on the PDB on 41.26 percent of the days from the start of his second term (January 20, 2013) through September 29, 2014. Conservatives are claiming that this shows that Obama has “missed” nearly 60 percent of his briefings and that is why he was not sufficiently aware of the spread of the Islamic State.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/02/bush-on-isis-america-has-learned-lesson-about-iraq/

Bush stressed: “It’s not over.”

But he said the U.S. military intervention shows the Iraqi people still need help.

“The Iraqi people obviously are going to have to make a decision as to whether or not they want to live in peace,” the former president said. “They’re not ready to do it on their own, and that’s the lesson we’ve learned recently.”

Bush, in 2007, had delivered a prescient warning about what might happen if U.S. troops withdrew too early. He said at the time this would risk “mass killings on a horrific scale” and potentially draw U.S. troops back into the country.

Those predictions have since come true.

Asked Thursday how he knew, Bush said: “I know the nature of the enemy.”

The list of “Most Wanted” was the result of a multi-intelligence agency collaboration which included the Defense Intelligence Agency, Central Command, and representatives from all US Service Branch Intelligence entities. The “Most Wanted” names were then assigned to their respective cards by five US Army soldiers,

This is not the first time GAI’s reports on this topic have been used to mislead. In 2012, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group cited GAI to make the same allegation about President Obama and his briefings in his first term. The right-wing media also picked up the attack.

But as the Washington Post reported then, Obama structured his White House operation so that he reads his PDB every day “but he does not always require an in-person briefing every day,” so “it is specious to say he has ‘skipped’ a meeting that was not actually scheduled.” The Post also revealed that Obama sometimes meets with intelligence briefers but that those meetings are not listed in his official schedule as a PDB, compromising the data set upon which GAI relies.

Thomas S. Blanton, director of George Washington University’s National Security Archive, told the Post that there have been “lots of variation” in the patterns of how presidents have received their briefings, varying from an oral report for George W. Bush to a written memo for Richard Nixon and a one-on-one meeting between Jimmy Carter and his national security adviser.

Notably, a CIA history of the PDB notes that Ronald Reagan almost never received oral briefings on the PDB with CIA personnel and that “unlike Carter, Reagan almost never wrote comments or question on the PDB.” The Post concluded that under the standards of the GAI report, “Ronald Reagan skipped his intelligence briefings 99 percent of the time.”

That this criticism was debunked two years ago hasn’t prevented the right-wing media from reviving it. Fox & Friends hyped the report in a September 30 segment where the purported 42 percent attendance rate was labeled a “failing grade.” Co-host Steve Doocy said Obama “missed” reports on ISIS because he attended “less than half” of his daily intelligence briefings, adding, “maybe he missed ISIS because he missed the briefings.” Elisabeth Hasselbeck, his co-host, went on to ask, “Is that good enough for the globe that your national security interests are in the low 40s?”

http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2014/09/30/36968/fnc-20140930-fnf-pdb-1

In a later segment, Hasselbeck stated that “even ISIS is surprised at their own success perhaps because the president missed nearly half of his daily intelligence briefings.” Guest Laura Ingraham said the supposed missed briefings were evidence Obama is “never all that into” foreign policy. Doocy said that to make sure Obama received his briefings he should be given them “on a golf cart.”

Rush Limbaugh used the GAI statistics on his radio show, alleging that “nobody even knows” if Obama is reading the written PDBs and that he has “intentionally eliminated the opportunity to discuss the intelligence findings with the experts.” Limbaugh also falsely claimed that President Reagan met daily with his “national security guy” for intelligence briefings.