Intelligence reports collected dust

What's the morale like at the White House among those who brief the President on intelligence matters? One national security staffer spoke with Mail Online's David Martosko:

President Barack Obama's intelligence briefings have provided him with specific information since before he won re-election in 2012 about the growing threat of the terror group now known alternatively as ISIS and ISIL, an administration insider told Mail Online on Monday.

'Unless someone very senior has been shredding the president's daily briefings and telling him that the dog ate them, highly accurate predictions about ISIL have been showing up in the Oval Office since before the 2012 election,' said a national security staffer in the Obama administration who is familiar with the content of intelligence briefings.

'We were seeing specific threat assessments and many of them have panned out exactly as we were told they would.'

"Our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper,' Obama said, 'has acknowledged that, I think, they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria.'

That finger-pointing, MailOnline's source said, is not sitting well in the White House.

'It's starting to affect morale around here,' he said.

'Any time you're hired by a boss to advise him about what to do in a high-stakes area, and he ignores you for a long time, it's going to gnaw at you.'

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