Rise of Islamic State was ‘a willful decision’: Former DIA Chief Michael Flynn
By: Brad Hoff, Foreign Policy Journal
Date: August 7, 2015
Excerpt (video embedded in article):
The White House decided to support armed rebels in Syria despite intelligence warnings forecasting the rise of the Islamic State.
In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.” [Lengthy discussion of the DIA memo begins at the 8:50 mark.]