{"id":156334,"date":"2015-06-03T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=156334"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:03:28","slug":"former-cia-spy-says-us-not-seeking-defeat-isil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/former-cia-spy-says-us-not-seeking-defeat-isil\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA spy says US not seeking to defeat ISIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A former CIA official has criticized President Barack Obama for his strategy against the ISIL terrorist group, saying the United States does not intend to win the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they understand the kind of war they need to fight,\u201d Henry Crumpton said in an interview with The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re waging the war they want to fight but not the one that will lead to success,\u201d the former deputy director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center added.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the president has done a \u201clousy\u201d strategy against the terror network in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very safe politically; they want to control everything in Washington,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to have an intelligence presence on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/03\/414102\/Former-CIA-spy-US-ISIL-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former CIA official has criticized President Barack Obama for his strategy against the ISIL terrorist group, saying the United States does not intend to win the war. \u201cI don\u2019t think they understand the kind of war they need to fight,\u201d Henry Crumpton said in an interview with The Hill. \u201cThey\u2019re waging the war they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-156334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}