House report fuels new campaign brawl over Obama and ISIL

The early findings of a Republican congressional probe that faults the Pentagon for overly optimistic intelligence reports about the war against the Islamic State is providing new fodder for the growing partisan fight over the Obama administration's strategy for confronting the terrorist group. For GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has described President Barack Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as the "founder" and "co-founder" of ISIL, the report issued Thursday plays into the argument that the administration has consistently underestimated the threat posed by the group. But the report also fuels the Democratic argument that conspiracy-minded Republicans have repeatedly...