Did The U.S. Military 'Doctored' Their Intel Reports On Why The Iraqi Army Collapsed When ISIS Launched Their Offensive In 2014?

Iraqi security forces, training on Mosul’s outskirts in January to take on ISIS militants. Credit Azad Lashkari/Reuters

New York Times: Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge

WASHINGTON — When Islamic State fighters overran a string of Iraqi cities last year, analysts at United States Central Command wrote classified assessments for military intelligence officials and policy makers that documented the humiliating retreat of the Iraqi Army. But before the assessments were final, former intelligence officials said, the analysts’ superiors made significant changes.

In the revised documents, the Iraqi Army had not retreated at all. The soldiers had simply “redeployed.”

Such changes are at the heart of an expanding internal Pentagon investigation of Centcom, as Central Command is known, where analysts say that supervisors revised conclusions to mask some of the American military’s failures in training Iraqi troops and beating back the Islamic State. The analysts say supervisors were particularly eager to paint a more optimistic picture of America’s role in the conflict than was warranted.

WNU Editor: To have all of this aired publicly tells me that the problem is far worst than what they are telling us. You have to wonder .... especially now .... if all the intelligence on Iraq (and elsewhere) .... coupled with their assessments, options, and recommendations .... is wrong and inaccurate.