Washington
(CNN) President Barack Obama's former
top military intelligence official said Tuesday that the White House ignored
reports prefacing the rise of ISIS in 2011 and 2012 because they did not
fit its re-election "narrative."
"I
think that they did not meet a narrative the White House needed. And I'll be
very candid with you, they just didn't," retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn,
the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told CNN's Jake Tapper on
"The Lead."
Flynn,
who has been critical of both Obama's and former President George W. Bush's
handling of the Iraq War and involvement in the Middle East, said that Obama
was served poorly by a small circle of advisers who were worried about his
re-election prospects at the time.
The
story they needed to tell, he said, was that pulling troops from Iraq would not
leave the region vulnerable to the rise of a radical Islamic group like ISIS.
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