Media Ignoring Reports Obama Knew Of ISIS Threat For At Least A Year

A new analysis released by the Media Research Center claims the major news networks are ignoring reports that President Obama was fully aware of the ISIS threat for at least one year.

“On Tuesday night, the three major broadcast networks omitted from their coverage on the Islamic group ISIS a report that President Barack Obama has received briefings on the terrorist organization for at least a year,” the report said.

A senior Pentagon official said that President Obama was given “detailed and specific intelligence” regarding the rise of the Islamic State during his daily briefing at least a year before the group began seizing vast amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria over the summer.

“ABC, CBS, and NBC all led their evening newscasts with multiple segments on the gruesome murder of American journalist Stephen Sotloff at the hands of ISIS in a propaganda video,” the report adds. Yet, not a single second was dedicated to the report from Catherine Herridge. A follow up analysis by PPD also concluded Wednesday’s coverage completely ignored the report.

PPD recently reported on another report from the West Point counterterrorism center, which said the Obama administration consistently ignored actionable intelligence suggesting ISIS was rising over a four-year period that directly paralleled the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

The claims made by Herridge’s source puts the West Point report into perspective. The report’s author, Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, painted a picture of a president more concerned with political calculus than national security. However, according to the Media Research Center, the major broadcast networks didn’t view the reports as newsworthy content.

The dueling reports underscore what has become an adversarial relationship between the president, the Pentagon and various other intel agencies. White House Press Secretaries Josh Earnest, and to a greater extent his predecessor Jay Carney, have repeatedly indicated that foreign crises under the administration’s tenure were a result of intelligence failures, rather than greater failures of Obama’s foreign policy.