The Daily Beast is reporting that both British and American officials are at a loss to explain why President Obama didn't order a rescue mission last June for western hostages despute having excellent intelligence of where they were being held. After nearly a month of delay, the president eventually ordered the rescue mission to go forward - on July 4. The date is suggestive that at least part of the delay was for political reasons. But the main reason for not going forward with the mission was simply that White House didn't trust British intelligence. British officials, as well as private security contractors, said they were frustrated by Washington’s hesitance to give the go-ahead for a rescue attempt, which eventually was carried out on July 4, 2014, by which time the hostages had been moved. The following month, ISIS began beheading its American and British prisoners in a series of grisly Internet videos. Toward the end of May, the British government...(Read Full Post)