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Clapper, has acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> you were d.i.a. at the time? >> yeah. do you think it was an intelligence failure? >> no, i dont. i really look at that and -- its easy to -- i mean, ill take one for the team, you know? the president has to decide who hes going to listen to and what information hes going to use. and i think that he was poorly advised to say that. >> the president makes no apologies for being measured and deliberate about ...

Would that have triggered? part of what the president has brought, his approach to national security, is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. >> the white house did underestimate isis. and republicans seized on the issue, excoriating the president, growing increasingly strident. >> our strategy will fail yet again. this president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home. >> even former top...

Territory? was that a complete surprise to you? >> well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> you were d.i.a. at the time? >> yeah. do you think it was an intelligence failure? >> no, i dont. i really look at that and -- its easy to -- i mean, ill take one for the team, you know? the president has to decide who hes going to listen to and what information hes going to use. and i think that he...

Question is then, what action would that have triggered? part of what the president has brought, his approach to national security, is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. >> the white house did underestimate isis. and republicans seized on the issue, excoriating the president, growing increasingly strident. >> our strategy will fail yet again. this president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back he...

Facilities to for example produce anthrax and botulinem products, and they can produce enough to kill thousands upon thousands of people. >> everything that you heard eco lynn powell say is not true. >> leaving saddam hussein with weapons of mass destruction is certain suicide. >> none of this was true. there were no weapons of mass destruction. and it was a catastrophic intelligence failure. and six weeks later americans went to war. >> my fellow americans, at this hour, american and coalition ...

>> gerald ford made the claim of no domination of europe and that cost him the race. this is big gasp. i know the media and colleagues are trying to help her saying she was returned to the security council patience which is esoteric non-sense. it is more than what they are saying. hillary clinton is part of the policy which the by-product was isis. we decide this is an intelligence failure or military failure and the goal of the administration to withdraw. it was a diplomatic failure why she was...

I dont think that makes sense, but i think the administration ought to look at reestablishing safe zones and put this front and center in this u.n. negotiation because i think it does have potential of really changing the battlefield conditions and theyve been stalemated for too long. i hope it happens, but if the past is precedence that will still take a long time. im concerned the clock is still ticking. the danger to the american people is still very present. >> lets talk about american peopl...

Here he is on "60 minutes." >> how did they end up where they are in control of so much territory? was that a complete surprise to you? >> well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that, i think, they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> you were d.i.a. at the time? >> yeah. do you think it was an intelligence failure? >> no, i dont. i really look at that and -- its easy to -- i mean, ill take one for the team, you know. the president h...

Look back and say you could have been alerted to a specific threat at a specific time, the question is then, what action would that have triggered? part of what the president has brought, his approach to national security, is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. >> the white house did underestimate isis. and republicans seized on the issue, excoriating the president, growing increasingly strident. >> our strategy will fa...

I dont think that makes sense, but i think the administration ought to look at reestablishing safe zones and put this front and center in this u.n. negotiation because i think it does have potential of really changing the battlefield conditions and theyve been stalemated for too long. i hope it happens, but if the past is precedence that will still take a long time. im concerned the clock is still ticking. the danger to the american people is still very present. >> lets talk about american peopl...