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Fox’s Leland Vittert Does His Best To Discredit President Obama’s Successful ISIS Raid

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on May 16, 2015 · Flag

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Under President Obama, Delta Force carried out a daring, dangerous and successful raid in Syria that killed a top ISIS leader, captured his wife, and resulted in no U.S. deaths. Naturally, Fox News did its darnedest to tarnish any luster.

From the New York Times:

American Special Operations forces mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria early Saturday, killing a leader of the Islamic State and about a dozen militant fighters, as well as capturing his wife and freeing an 18-year old Yazidi woman whom Pentagon officials said had been held as a slave.

In the first successful raid by American ground troops since the military campaign against the Islamic State began last year, two dozen Delta Force commandos entered Syria aboard Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Ospreys and killed the leader, a man known as Abu Sayyaf. One American military official described him as the Islamic State’s “emir of oil and gas.”

Even so, Abu Sayyaf is a midlevel leader in the organization — one terrorism analyst compared him to Al Capone’s accountant — and likely is replaceable in fairly short order.

… The commandos were back in Iraq with the two women around dawn local time, officials said. They said the American forces were able to seize communications equipment and other materials from the site, which may prove useful in intelligence assessments.

In a discussion about the raid with John Hannah, a former national security advisor to Dick Cheney, Fox host Leland Vittert’s first question made it clear his priority was Obama, not the mission nor what it may have accomplished.

VITTERT: The first thing that struck me when I heard about this raid was, it sounds an awful lot like ‘boots on the ground,’ something the president said wasn’t going to happen.

Hannah agreed.

Vittert also questioned why the White House had risked so much in the raid. When told that Abu Sayyaf was likely of “incredible intelligence value,” Vittert suggested he was not of any value now that he has been killed.

Hannah explained that there was probably valuable intelligence in the form of “electronics, computers, telephones” in the house.

So Vittert asked, “As you look back on it, was it worth it? You have his wife but that doesn’t really seem like she probably was the one who held the family checkbook.”

But CNN reported:

Abu Sayyaf and his wife are suspected to be involved in or have deep knowledge of ISIS hostage operations, a U.S. official with knowledge of the operation told CNN. A team from the FBI-led High Value Interrogation Group is expected to interrogate the wife, the source said. They will seek to figure out what she may know about the capture, movement and treatment of hostages.

Hannah reiterated that there could have been valuable information seized in the raid. “Are there things on his computers, on his phones that begin to let you really unravel the leadership network and begin to go after these guys? And let’s face it: this is a statement as well. The U.S. for the first time going in on the ground, killing a high-value leader, the rest of the leadership now is even got to be more wary than they were before,” Hannah said.

Foiled again, Vittert suggested that maybe all the credit for the raid should go to others.

VITTERT: Is this something that President Obama would have had to authorize specifically and personally or is this something that, say, he had said to the chairman and other folks, hey if you think you can go get somebody, go get him?

Sorry, Leland! “No, I think absolutely the president was intimately involved in this decision,” Hannah told Vittert. “He finally gave the green light to go order to make this happen. It’s just such a diversion in direction for U.S. policy on the ground and in Syria. The risks were so high. As you said, the consequences could have been devastating. We could have seen another Black Hawk Down in Somalia …This had to be the president’s call.”

Vittert took one final swipe: “Well, thankfully, all the Special Forces, we know have returned safely. Obviously, they didn’t get the guy they wanted to alive, they got him dead. We’ll see what intelligence comes out of it.”

Fox just can’t stand it when President Obama looks good!

Watch it below, from today’s America’s News HQ.

(H/T emailer Alice C.)

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d d commented 2015-05-19 22:02:44 -0400 · Flag
In the past, Vittert has been described as a foreign correspondent, an anchor, a reporter and a straight new guy. However, this past year or so, I have heard him inserting right-wing talking points into stories he was reporting on instead of just sticking to the actual facts. I’ve also seen him as a stooge fill-in on F&F which I do NOT believe a straight news person should be doing. But this piece of tripe from Vittert takes the cake. It’s clear that he has an agenda and it is to discredit our President. Hell, he sounds like a Hannity mini-me.
Steve St John commented 2015-05-18 17:26:02 -0400 · Flag
Fox’s top priority is to make most Democrats look bad, and most Republicans look good. (Once in a blue moon they’ll praise a Democrat or criticize a Republican, but that’s done only so they can claim to be “fair and balanced.”)
Dave Wright commented 2015-05-18 11:32:15 -0400 · Flag
Looks to me like he is gunning for Hannity’s job.
Antoinette commented 2015-05-17 14:16:02 -0400 · Flag
If they gave credit to President Obama the Foxies’ ratings would drop like a hot potato. Their conservative elderly audience would turn on them like a rabid pitbull (our apologies to the pitbull).

Off topic. The Foxies scream about donors to the Clinton Foundation. Hmm…look how much the Murdochs donated to the Clinton Foundation. Take this information and spread throughout the internet, call every talk radio show in the nation and tell the masses about the Murdoch’s donation. Tell friends, neighbors, family, Facebook friends..

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/nyregion/10hillary.html?_r=0

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundation-donors-include-dozens-of-media-207228.html
truman commented 2015-05-17 11:10:00 -0400 · Flag
On Fux Noise, a successful military mission is due to our brave soldiers and sailors. No credit to that black Muslim living in our White House.
Bob Roberts commented 2015-05-17 02:45:33 -0400 · Flag
I would have loved to been in the room when this Vittert and his writers prepared his copy for the interview. “Now, how can we try and make this look bad for Pres. Obama”. And once again with every success, every host on Faux says, “Do you think this was his call or just some offhand suggestion he made and REAL military men and leaders are the ones who got this done”. And you are so right Mr. West, if Mittens had done this, Faux would have their American banners going on all four sides of the TV screen proclaiming over and over what a great leader Mittens was and mocking every other media source that didn’t agree with that.
Joseph West commented 2015-05-17 01:33:13 -0400 · Flag
You just know if Mittens had won in 2012, not only would FoxNoise be screeching if the other news networks didn’t give the story a full 24 hour coverage but FoxNoise would spend the whole next week covering the story from every angle (and their only complaint would be the Army’s refusal to let FoxNoise interview the members who took part in the mission; of course, that wouldn’t actually stop FoxNoise from making up something).
Gary Oliveira commented 2015-05-17 00:07:01 -0400 · Flag
“Fox just can’t stand it when President Obama looks good!” Well said…
Elemental Fraction commented 2015-05-16 20:23:41 -0400 · Flag
and fox is suppose to be patriotic. I’m not sure for which country though…
Levi Ruffin commented 2015-05-16 19:35:33 -0400 · Flag
WOW








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