FOX News: Lawmaker: Terror intel manipulation dates back to at least 2012
The alleged manipulation of intelligence to downplay the strength of terror groups is far more extensive than previously reported and goes back to at least 2012, according to the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee.
The Defense Department inspector general and congressional investigators are reviewing claims that intelligence on the Islamic State was manipulated to present a more positive picture of the U.S. strategy's effectiveness. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said these practices, though, extend to how intelligence on Al Qaeda was handled as well.
"I know for a fact this was going on in 2012, because I was told by informants that this was going on back then," Nunes, head of the intelligence committee, told Fox News. "We thought this was foolish, to pull all of our troops out of Iraq, because we thought, just from our own work, that this would be bad, but the administration was able to say, 'No, well, this is what the intelligence says.'"
WNU Editor: Bad intelligence got the U.S. involved in Iraq in the first place .... and it looks like manipulated intelligence is clouding what we should do in Iraq today. But while it is easy to blame the intelligence community for this, the real blame should go to their political masters who should have asked the hard questions in the past, and ask even more so the hard questions today. This story is not over yet, and while President Bush deservedly has been blamed for the debacle in Iraq, this is now shaping up to President Obama's very own Iraq debacle with a foe (the Islamic State) still very much on the ascendency..
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