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Korea, pakistan and other countries that we get to deal with. >> hopefully given the same effort we get to invade all of them soon. >> we wont. >> its satisfying and satisfying to see jon stewart take judith miller apart. it continues to deflect from her own responsibility for starting the iraq war under false pretenses. on another level yes thats satisfying to see but we are back in the situation again where great liberal heroes like jon steward and paul krugñtw7óu in "the new york times" and...

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 officials in the obama administration had tough words. >> its more than an intelligence failure, its a policy failure as well. >> the solution offered by most critics is the one thing isis wants the most. american boots on the ground. >> we frankly dont believe its a matter of policy, the insertion of significan...

>> if you care about the worst foreign policy disaster in a generation and making sure that something like that does not happen again in our country, on the one hand its kind of exciting to be talking iraq, right? its kind of exciting to see everybody talking about george w. bushs decision to invade iraq and whether or not it was a good decision and what was right or wrong about that decision. it is in one way very exciting this is finally a matter of high level political discussion. it is also ...

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 officials in the obama administration had tough words. >> its more than just an intelligence failure, its a policy failure as well. >> of course, the solution offered by most critics is the one thing isis wants the most. american boots on t...

>> lieutenant general michael flynn had a front-row seat to the rise of isis. he led the defense intelligence agency until late last year. >> we failed to understand the enemy that we faced. >> flynn says intelligence officials had warned the administration that isis was growing more dangerous before the president made his infamous jv comment. but the president has said the intelligence on isis was inadequate. here he is on "60 minutes." >> how did they end up where they are in control of so muc...

>> wolf i can only tell you what weve been telling this administration and this congress for a long time which is that essentially theres been two great victories in this wear against al qaeda. one great victory is we have protected the homeland. theres been no attacks by outside groups here. and we have degraded and decimated the al qaeda senior leadership in pakistan. their great victory has been the spread of their ideology wolf across a huge geographic area. thats the real story of benghazi ...

Administration that isis was growing more dangerous before the president made his infamous jv comment. but the president has said the intelligence on isis was inadequate. 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 they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> you were dia at the time? >> yeah. do you t...

Statement of gross error, in my regard because the intelligence was fixed. and everyone should know that the intelligence was fixed by now. yes, it was a failure of the cia, but it was also a failure of the political people who manipulated that intelligence failure to their own benefit. and it destroyed the balance of power in the gulf and produced what we have today. the chaos that we have today. al qaeda in iraq. never there until we invaded. isis, never there until we invaded. the mess we hav...

A losing organization they will be perceived as winning and they will continue to inspire this type of jihadists activity and extreme violence here in america. >> in looking at the response to the texas shooting the shooter there, simpson, he was on law enforcement radar scene, and he was being monitored and had given his name as somebody interested in the prophet mohammed cartoon contest. now the fbi is going back and taking another look over at everybody on the radar screen to see if they miss...

Enforcements radar screen. they had him under monitoring. theyd even given his name as someone interested in this prophet muhammad cartoon event. and yet he was able to get through. thankfully responded to quickly by law enforcement on the scene. now the fbi is going back and taking another look over at everyone on that radar screen to see if they missed something else. i wonder as you look at this do you consider this an intelligence failure and are you confident that the fbi, law enforcement h...