Obama was warned by intelligence officials about the threat presented by the Islamic State at least a year before it began

• A Pentagon official claims Obama was forewarned about ISIS in his Presidential Daily Briefing
• Anyone at the White House who read the report 'could not come away with any other impression: This is getting bad,' the official said
• The White House spokesman said Tuesday that the president has not suggested that he was unaware of about the havoc ISIS could wreak
• 'For years' the President and his advisers have voiced 'concern about extremist elements in Syria and ... the destabilizing impact they could have on the broader region,' he said

President Barack Obama was warned by intelligence officials about the threat presented by the Islamic State at least a year before it began its murderous rampage across Iraq, a news report revealed on Tuesday.

A Pentagon official familiar with the President's Daily Brief told Fox Newsthat anyone at the White House who read the report 'could not come away with any other impression: This is getting bad.'

The Pentagon official's claims are consistent with those of other sources in the intelligence community and regional experts who have said it's improbable that the president was caught off guard by the rise of the Islamic extremist group.