The U.S. intelligence community provided multiple strategic warnings since the beginning of the year about the strength of Sunni militants in Iraq, a senior intelligence official said Tuesday -- a claim that challenges assertions by top administration officials that they were caught off guard by the capture of key Iraqi cities. . . . Earlier Tuesday, in an interview, Sec of State J. Kerry said nobody expected Iraqi security forces to be decisively driven out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, as they were earlier this month in Mosul. . . . But in a separate briefing with reporters Tuesday afternoon, the senior intelligence official said multiple warnings were provided. . . . Asked who failed to act, the official did [WOULD] not explain.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:50:53 +0000
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