Caught flat-footed and totally unprepared for Egypt’s uprising, the Obama administration has been offering a series of excuses. It was, officials claim, quietly supporting reform all along. The CIA never warned that Egypt might blow up. No one could have anticipated what has happened in Cairo since Jan. 25.
The claim on reform is easily dismissed. Anyone who has been following Egypt for the last two years knows the administration’s record of coddling President Hosni Mubarak, cutting funds for Egyptian democracy programs, and eschewing criticism of the regime’s repression.
But another part of the record also needs clearing up: In fact, the White House was warned, publicly and repeatedly, that Egypt was approaching a turning point and that the status quo was untenable — not by an intelligence agency, but by a bipartisan group of Washington-based experts who pleaded, in vain, for a change of policy..
via PostPartisan - The Egypt warnings Obama ignored.
More liars.
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