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One of the most enduring habits of liberals, is that they lie. Constantly trying to pretend things are not as they are, liberals are obsessed with the fear that people might find out what they are actually doing, and what the results really are. So a great deal of their time is spent covering up, altering reports, and making public statements that have little connection with reality.
Some might say that's just politicians being politicians, trying as usual to pretend everyone does it. But when it's done in a war situation, it can get people killed, and entire nations destroyed.
Looks like the Obama administration has been caught doing it in a war situation, pressuring the military to issue reports saying ISIS is weak, disorganized, and ineffective... even as ISIS storms across the middle East, capturing city after city, massacring civilians and military alike, and destroying everything they can find. Reports that are too pessimistic, are sent back to the analysts for alterations, and the analysts are being pressured to make their reports conform to what the administration claims, instead of what the military is finding out the hard way.
Officials up to the very top of the CIA appear to be intimately involved with the push for altering reports and burying bad news.
Military analysts are in "full revolt", with the work environment being described as "Stalinist". Analysts who say what the administration doesn't want to hear, are urged to retire. Some are "agreeing to leave", as the report politely puts it.
In the meantime, ISIS has taken over large parts of the middle East while committing atrocities not seen since the worst days of Barbarossa and Holodomor.
Expect to hear from the left, replies that everything is fine, nothing to see here, move along folks. As usual.
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'Something's wrong': The ISIS intelligence scandal just hit Obama's inner circle
'Something's wrong': The ISIS intelligence scandal just hit Obama's inner circle
Business Insider
By Pamela Engel
Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 12:11 PM EDT
2 hours ago
The scandal surrounding US intelligence reports on ISIS just hit President Barack Obama's inner circle.
James Clapper, America's top spy, is reportedly in "frequent and unusual contact" with the military officer who is suspected of allowing US reports on ISIS to be altered to fit the administration's official line, Spencer Ackerman at The Guardian reports.
"In communications, Clapper, who is far more senior than Grove, is said to tell Grove how the war looks from his vantage point, and question Grove about Central Command’s assessments," Ackerman writes.
"Such a situation could place inherent pressure on a subordinate, sources said."
Clapper, the director of national intelligence, reportedly talks to Army Brig. Gen. Steven Grove, the head of US Central Command's intelligence wing, almost every day, according to The Guardian.
A former intelligence official told the newspaper that this was "highly unusual."
This report comes amid a Pentagon investigation into accusations that top military officials have pressured analysts into conforming their reports to the Obama administration's narrative of the fight against ISIS (also known as Islamic State, ISIL, and Daesh).
More than 50 intelligence analysts at Centcom, the Pentagon agency covering security interests in nations throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, have supported a formal, written complaint sent the Defense Department alleging that senior intelligence officers have insisted on changing ISIS reports to make them reflect more positively on US efforts in the region, The Daily Beast reported this week.
In another story last month, sources told The Daily Beast that senior military and intelligence officials pushed analysts to portray ISIS "as weaker than the analysts believe it actually is."
Crucial parts of intelligence reports have reportedly been taken out, analysts say they have been subject to an environment in which they do not feel able to give a candid assessment of the situation in Iraq and Syria, and sometimes reports seen as being too negative have been sent back to analysts, according to the complaints.
With Clapper so closely communicating with officials who have been implicated in the scandal, questions will arise about how much Obama — who once suggested that ISIS was a "jayvee team" wearing Lakers uniforms — knew about any possible intelligence altering.
One former defense official told The Guardian that Clapper could "be manipulative," adding that "something's wrong."
Another source said Obama officials were not open to "the narrative that ISIS is winning."
Others said it was doubtful that Clapper gave any direct orders to change intelligence reports.
Centcom analysts are now in a full "revolt," according to The Daily Beast. The work environment there has reportedly gotten so bad that it has been described as "Stalinist." One source alleges that when analysts brought concerns to Centcom leadership, they were urged to retire, and some agreed to leave.
Some analysts seem to think Centcom leaders are trying to further their career advancement by telling the administration what it wants to hear, according to The Daily Beast's sources.
These allegations could have serious implications for the US intelligence community and the Obama administration.
"The politicization of intelligence products would be a major issue, and these allegations need to be thoroughly investigated," Devin Nunes, the chair of the House intelligence committee, told Business Insider.
"The intelligence committee will take all appropriate action to ensure our nation's policymakers receive unbiased analysis from the Intelligence Community."
Despite assertions by Obama administration officials that ISIS is losing, many counterterrorism analysts say the opposite is true.
Some might say that's just politicians being politicians, trying as usual to pretend everyone does it. But when it's done in a war situation, it can get people killed, and entire nations destroyed.
Looks like the Obama administration has been caught doing it in a war situation, pressuring the military to issue reports saying ISIS is weak, disorganized, and ineffective... even as ISIS storms across the middle East, capturing city after city, massacring civilians and military alike, and destroying everything they can find. Reports that are too pessimistic, are sent back to the analysts for alterations, and the analysts are being pressured to make their reports conform to what the administration claims, instead of what the military is finding out the hard way.
Officials up to the very top of the CIA appear to be intimately involved with the push for altering reports and burying bad news.
Military analysts are in "full revolt", with the work environment being described as "Stalinist". Analysts who say what the administration doesn't want to hear, are urged to retire. Some are "agreeing to leave", as the report politely puts it.
In the meantime, ISIS has taken over large parts of the middle East while committing atrocities not seen since the worst days of Barbarossa and Holodomor.
Expect to hear from the left, replies that everything is fine, nothing to see here, move along folks. As usual.
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'Something's wrong': The ISIS intelligence scandal just hit Obama's inner circle
'Something's wrong': The ISIS intelligence scandal just hit Obama's inner circle
Business Insider
By Pamela Engel
Fri, Sep 11, 2015, 12:11 PM EDT
2 hours ago
The scandal surrounding US intelligence reports on ISIS just hit President Barack Obama's inner circle.
James Clapper, America's top spy, is reportedly in "frequent and unusual contact" with the military officer who is suspected of allowing US reports on ISIS to be altered to fit the administration's official line, Spencer Ackerman at The Guardian reports.
"In communications, Clapper, who is far more senior than Grove, is said to tell Grove how the war looks from his vantage point, and question Grove about Central Command’s assessments," Ackerman writes.
"Such a situation could place inherent pressure on a subordinate, sources said."
Clapper, the director of national intelligence, reportedly talks to Army Brig. Gen. Steven Grove, the head of US Central Command's intelligence wing, almost every day, according to The Guardian.
A former intelligence official told the newspaper that this was "highly unusual."
This report comes amid a Pentagon investigation into accusations that top military officials have pressured analysts into conforming their reports to the Obama administration's narrative of the fight against ISIS (also known as Islamic State, ISIL, and Daesh).
More than 50 intelligence analysts at Centcom, the Pentagon agency covering security interests in nations throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, have supported a formal, written complaint sent the Defense Department alleging that senior intelligence officers have insisted on changing ISIS reports to make them reflect more positively on US efforts in the region, The Daily Beast reported this week.
In another story last month, sources told The Daily Beast that senior military and intelligence officials pushed analysts to portray ISIS "as weaker than the analysts believe it actually is."
Crucial parts of intelligence reports have reportedly been taken out, analysts say they have been subject to an environment in which they do not feel able to give a candid assessment of the situation in Iraq and Syria, and sometimes reports seen as being too negative have been sent back to analysts, according to the complaints.
With Clapper so closely communicating with officials who have been implicated in the scandal, questions will arise about how much Obama — who once suggested that ISIS was a "jayvee team" wearing Lakers uniforms — knew about any possible intelligence altering.
One former defense official told The Guardian that Clapper could "be manipulative," adding that "something's wrong."
Another source said Obama officials were not open to "the narrative that ISIS is winning."
Others said it was doubtful that Clapper gave any direct orders to change intelligence reports.
Centcom analysts are now in a full "revolt," according to The Daily Beast. The work environment there has reportedly gotten so bad that it has been described as "Stalinist." One source alleges that when analysts brought concerns to Centcom leadership, they were urged to retire, and some agreed to leave.
Some analysts seem to think Centcom leaders are trying to further their career advancement by telling the administration what it wants to hear, according to The Daily Beast's sources.
These allegations could have serious implications for the US intelligence community and the Obama administration.
"The politicization of intelligence products would be a major issue, and these allegations need to be thoroughly investigated," Devin Nunes, the chair of the House intelligence committee, told Business Insider.
"The intelligence committee will take all appropriate action to ensure our nation's policymakers receive unbiased analysis from the Intelligence Community."
Despite assertions by Obama administration officials that ISIS is losing, many counterterrorism analysts say the opposite is true.
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