{"id":205383,"date":"2015-12-02T17:56:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=205383"},"modified":"2015-12-02T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:57:30","slug":"flynn-obama-ignored-isil-intel-fit-re-election-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/flynn-obama-ignored-isil-intel-fit-re-election-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Flynn: Obama ignored ISIL intel  to fit re-election &#8216;narrative&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Barack Obama ignored early warnings about the rise of Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in 2011 and 2012 because they did not fit his re-election \u201cnarrative,\u201d according to the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that they did not meet a narrative the White House needed. And I&#8217;ll be very candid with you, they just didn&#8217;t,&#8221; retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said Tuesday on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Lead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the narrative was that al-Qaeda was on the run, and [Osama] bin Laden was dead,\u201d he added. \u201c\u2018They&#8217;re dead and &#8230; we&#8217;ve beaten them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments further\u00a0give credence to the critics\u2019 assertion that the Obama administration has continuously downplayed Daesh even as the terror group expanded its territory in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/12\/02\/440061\/Obama-ignored-ISIL-intel-for-reelection\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama ignored early warnings about the rise of Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in 2011 and 2012 because they did not fit his re-election \u201cnarrative,\u201d according to the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. &#8220;I think that they did not meet a narrative the White House needed. And I&#8217;ll be very candid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-205383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205383","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=205383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}