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| Obama Successfully Hunted Trump Campaign Aides Instead of Terrorists |
| 2019-10-30 |
| Posted as a comment last evening by our HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim liaison fella: [American Greatness] The weekend raid that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named after Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker killed in Syria in 2015 while being held captive by the sadistic ISIS leader. During his Sunday morning announcement from the White House, President Trump twice invoked Mueller’s name in addition to the names of other Americans murdered under the Islamic State’s ongoing reign of terror. According to reports from some of his escaped victims, Baghdadi took Mueller as his secret bride in 2013. "We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of al-Baghdadi," her parents said in an August 2015 interview. Mueller was raped repeatedly by the ISIS caliph, then killed in February 2015 during a coalition strike on the compound where she was confined. After the U.S. confirmed Mueller’s death, President Obama issued a statement. "ISIL is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast to the spirit of people like Kayla. No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla’s captivity and death." Obama, however, did not bring those terrorists to justice; nearly five years later, it was Donald Trump who made good on that promise. But thank Gaia he was able to make his NCAA bracket picks. We have that at least Mueller’s parents thanked the president for finally taking out their daughter’s tormentor. "I still say Kayla should be here, and if Obama had been as decisive as President Trump, maybe she would have been," Marsha Mueller, Kayla’s mother, told the Arizona Republic on Sunday. The former president, who famously referred to the al-Qaeda offshoot as a "JV team" in 2014 shortly before ISIS declared a caliphate, fumbled his response to its growing threat in the final years of his presidency. Obama admitted during the G7 meeting in June 2015 that his administration did not have a "complete strategy" to fight ISIS and that the details, including cooperation with our allies, were "not worked out." But in 2016, rather than successfully hunting down terrorists including Mueller’s captors, Obama and his top national security officials hunted down Trump campaign aides. Baghdadi’s death should be a reminder‐an infuriating one at that‐of how the Obama administration, particularly the CIA and FBI, squandered vital resources in service to a politically motivated investigation into Trump and his presidential campaign rather than focusing their efforts on the legitimate threats facing the country. Trump alluded to that malfeasance in his press conference on Sunday. "When we use our intelligence correctly, what we can do is incredible," Trump said while commending intelligence operatives who helped locate the ISIS madman. "When we waste our time with intelligence that hurts our country because we had poor leadership at the top, that’s not good." Trump, of course, was referring to former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey, the "Praetorian Guard" that laid the trap for Team Trump in 2016. As ISIS continued its murderous rampage in the Middle East and parts of Europe that year‐including the Bastille Day truck attack in France that killed 86 people and wounded hundreds more‐the most powerful intelligence professionals in the United States were surveilling Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |