Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer (Ret.) is a former senior intelligence officer who wrote the book “Operation Dark Heart” about Special Operations successes during the early part of the war in Afghanistan. He also testified to Congress about the breakdown in communications between the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA prior to 9/11.
Via Washington Free Beacon:
Thursday morning, Shaffer appeared on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., to discuss the ISIS execution of American journalist James Foley earlier this week.Listen to the full interview:
He told me and co-host Brian Wilson that the recently revealed rescue attempt led by Special Forces earlier this summer failed because President Obama was slow to give the go-ahead:
I’m hearing from my friends in the Pentagon, they are giving him every single option way ahead of time. And let me give you a little secret here: The reason that raid into Syria failed to get Foley and those guys was because the president drug his feet. He waited too long, the intel got stale, and by the time we actually gave the “go” word it failed because we just didn’t react quick enough.
What do you think about the possibility that the rescue operation for James Foley and the other captives may have failed because President Obama dithered for too long? It sure sounds like what we’ve sadly come to expect from this President.
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