Was The Office Of The Director Of National Intelligence Aware That Intelligence On The Islamic State Was 'Skewed'?

Shane Harris & Nancy Youssef, Daily Beast: Exclusive: Whistleblowers Warned Top Spy About Skewed ISIS Intel

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.

Why Is The White House 'Blocking' Analysts From U.S. Military Intelligence To Review The Documents That Were Seized From Osama Bin Laden's Home?

Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard: Obama’s Intel Scandal

Barack Obama says he wants the truth. On November 21, the New York Times reported allegations that military intelligence officials provided the president with skewed assessments that minimized the threat from ISIS and overstated the success of U.S. efforts against the group. The Times story was an update of reporting from the Daily Beast earlier this fall. “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 Beast reported in September. These analysts say their superiors regularly massaged pessimistic assessments to make them more upbeat before sending them up the chain of command. The analysts registered their grievances with the inspector general at the Pentagon, who is investigating their claims.

WNU Editor: One more story that makes you wonder if the White House knows what it is doing.