2012 Pentagon report warned
Obama was creating ISIS, Predicted current policies would
lead to Islamic state in Syria, by Art Moore, 8/12/16, WND
Donald Trump’s declaration this week
at a campaign rally that President Obama and Hillary Clinton “founded” ISIS
drew outrage from establishment media, and the Republican nominee now insists
he was being sarcastic, but a Defense Intelligence Agency document declassified
last year shows the Obama administration was warned in 2012 that if it
continued its policies, a radical Islamic regime could form in Eastern Syria.
Writing
in Chronicles magazine, Jim Jatras, a
former U.S. diplomat and foreign policy adviser to the Senate GOP leadership,
cited a DIA
report in August 2012 that was declassified and released last year under a
Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch. Hillary Clinton was secretary of state at the time under
President Obama.
The report said “there is the possibility
of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern
Syria, and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want,
in order to isolate the Syrian regime.”
The “supporting powers” are
identified as “the West, Gulf countries, and Turkey.”
Jatras, as
Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch blog reported,
summarized the report saying that if the U.S. and its proxies kept aiding
al-Qaida, the Muslim Brotherhood and other “rebel” groups fighting the Syrian
regime of President Bashar al-Assad, a jihadist state would arise in the
country.
Several months later, ISIS declared
itself a state straddling the Syria-Iraq border.
Report
‘made no difference’
Jatras pointed out that Lt. Gen.
Michael Flynn, currently a Trump adviser, took over as head of DIA a month
before the report was issued. “Whether it was his personal effort to caution
the administration or simply the professional analysts in the DIA apparatus
laying out the facts as they saw them, the 2012 report made no difference,”
Jatras writes.
In an interview
last year with Mehdi Hasan of Al Jazeera,
Flynn said the formation of an ISIS state wasn’t a matter of the administration
turning a “blind eye.” It was a “willful decision.”
Hasan: You are basically saying that even in government at the
time you knew these groups were around, you saw this analysis, and you were
arguing against it, but who wasn’t listening?
Flynn: I think the administration.
Hasan: So the administration turned a blind eye to your analysis?
Flynn: I don’t know that they turned a blind eye, I think it was
a decision. I think it was a willful decision.
Hasan: A willful decision to support an insurgency that had
Salafists, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood?
Flynn: It was a willful decision to do what they’re doing.
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