50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked
BartSimpson @ Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:49 am
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ce=twitter
Seems Obama and the leftards on this site have quite a bit in common. Anytime actual facts conflict with their favored narrative they just skip the facts and stick to the narrative.
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It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk.
More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.
The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.
“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said.
Two senior analysts at CENTCOM signed a written complaint sent to the Defense Department inspector general in July alleging that the reports, some of which were briefed to President Obama, portrayed the terror groups as weaker than the analysts believe they are. The reports were changed by CENTCOM higher-ups to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the analysts claim.
More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.
The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.
“The cancer was within the senior level of the intelligence command,” one defense official said.
Two senior analysts at CENTCOM signed a written complaint sent to the Defense Department inspector general in July alleging that the reports, some of which were briefed to President Obama, portrayed the terror groups as weaker than the analysts believe they are. The reports were changed by CENTCOM higher-ups to adhere to the administration’s public line that the U.S. is winning the battle against ISIS and al Nusra, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the analysts claim.
BeaverFever @ Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:44 pm
Can you please look through your old files and dust off one of your rebuttals from when intelligence officials made the same accusations against Bush over Iraq?
Here I'll help you: IIRC, Republicans at the time said things like "well there's always disagreement within the intelligence community by design nothing to see here" and "Intelligence analysts just present an opinion, it's the President's prerogative to make the final call" and so forth. So try to be consistent if you can.
Although in your case history has proven that Bush and the Republicans actually were filthy scumbag liars who ordered doctored intelligence so maybe the rogue analysts are right again.
The real problem is that America is so hyper-politicized that it's impossible to know what the real facts are.
DanSC @ Mon Nov 16, 2015 9:07 pm
>Complains that hyper-politicization makes intelligence analysis difficult
>First sentence is to attack political views
Thanos @ Mon Nov 16, 2015 9:26 pm
Isn't that two admins in a row that have cooked the books to get the result they wanted? What is this, a new White House tradition?
xerxes @ Mon Nov 16, 2015 9:29 pm
Pfft. A lot of administrations have twisted facts to justify their plans.
Remember the Maine?
Gulf of Tonkin?
BeaverFever @ Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:08 pm
DanSC DanSC:
>First sentence is to attack political views
No I don't think so
Thanos @ Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:19 pm
xerxes xerxes:
Pfft. A lot of administrations have twisted facts to justify their plans.
Remember the Maine?
Gulf of Tonkin?
Remember the Maine?
Gulf of Tonkin?
Yeah but they usually don't cluster the big con jobs that close together. They generally have a couple of decades gap in between them to ensure that the dullards have completely forgotten the last time they got so badly fooled.
DanSC @ Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:31 pm
BeaverFever BeaverFever:
No I don't think so
You can think whatever you want. You're not under ISIS rule, no one's going to behead you.