Former CIA official Henry "Hank" Crumpton believes the Obama administration is doing a "lousy job" fighting ISIS, as he told The Hill in a recent interview.
Crumpton, who led a covert operation in Afghanistan after 9/11 and served as deputy director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center from 1999 to 2001, advocates a field-based approach to fighting the terrorist group, which would entail getting more intelligence agents entrenched in the field and empowering local Iraqi communities as well as overseas U.S. officials. The risk-averse, Washington-centric strategy currently pursued by the Obama administration, however, "does not reflect reality on the ground," according to Crumpton.
"They're waging the war they want to fight but not the one that will lead to success," he said. Read more at The Hill.
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