It wasn’t just the generals who were warned that ISIS intelligence assessments were overly rosy. The office of the director of national intelligence knew, too.
U.S. military analysts told the nation’s top intelligence official that their reports on ISIS were skewed and manipulated by their bosses, The Daily Beast has learned. The result: an overly optimistic account of the campaign against the terror group.
The complaints, lodged by analysts at U.S. Central Command in 2015, are separate from allegations that analysts made to the Defense Department inspector general, who is now investigating “whether there was any falsification, distortion, delay, suppression, or improper modification of intelligence information” by the senior officials that run CENTCOM’s intelligence group.
This second set of accusations, which have not been previously reported, were made to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). They show that the officials charged with overseeing all U.S. intelligence activities were aware, through their own channels, of potential problems with the integrity of information on ISIS, some of which made its way to President Obama.
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WNU editor: I would be shocked if the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was willingly involved in politicizing the intelligence that they were receiving. Having said that .... there does appear to be a problem, and when the IG's report on this entire affair is finally made public, this blog will be posting all the details.
2 comments:
What law has Obama not broken?
What has Obama not effed up?
He's pretty good at bamboozling impressionable attendees of the UNGA.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?328385-2/president-obama-address-un-general-assembly
Instead of "Hope and Change", it's bullshit baffles brains.
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