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Louie Gohmert: As we consider this week what Congress will fund through September 30 of next year and what we will not fund, the San…

On the recordDecember 15, 2015
As we consider this week what Congress will fund through September 30 of next year and what we will not fund, the San Bernardino shooting, the radical Islamist terrorist attack there, has awakened a lot of people across the country. There is an article from December 2, 2015, by Ashley Pratte. The question is: Is ISIS contained or covered up? That is the title. ``With the recent terrorist attacks in Paris carried out by ISIS, Americans are on high alert--and rightfully so. Just hours prior to the attacks Obama said that ISIS was `contained.' Americans everywhere are baffled by Obama's continued ignorance and lack of strategy when it comes to destroying the Islamic State. ``Yesterday, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, stated on The Lead with Jake Tapper that the White House knowingly ignored a 2012 report about the rise of ISIS because they didn't mesh well with the re-election `narrative.' ``Now it is all starting to make sense. Of course the President believes ISIS is contained, he has been willingly and knowingly ignoring reports about the serious threats that ISIS poses to America and to the world since it wouldn't help him get re-elected. ``The scary thing is that these aren't the first reports we have heard from former Obama intelligence officials regarding the White House ignoring their reports on ISIS. This September The Daily Beast published an exclusive story by Shane Harris and Nancy A.…
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Louie Gohmert
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Dec 15, 2015

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