Terror threat

Former top intel official: Obama’s ‘incompetence’ on ISIS endangers U.S.

President Obama’s former top intelligence official said Tuesday that “political incompetence” when it comes to the Islamic State group is putting Americans in danger.

Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who now advises Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told the Washington Free Beacon that the White House downplays the extent to which ISIS has infiltrated the homeland.

“There should be more publicity about what we’ve discovered,” Mr. Flynn, co-author of the book “Field of Flight: How We Can Win The Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies,” told the website. “We ought to expose it, expose its [ISIS’s] weaknesses, expose its dangers to the American public. We’re a tough crowd. The American public is tough. We can take the truth. […] Warfare 101 is know your enemy, know yourself, you’ll win 1,000 battles. This president, who is also wearing the hat of commander-in-chief, has shown really a level of incompetence when it comes to clearly understanding and clearly defining the enemy we are facing. This is a political problem. We face political incompetence at this point.”