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Daily Beast: 50 U.S. spies say admin altered their dire reports on ISIS into ‘happy talk’
Canada Free Press ^ | 09/10/15 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 09/10/2015 6:49:41 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

" . . . reports are being manipulated to fit a public narrative"

If this sounds familiar, it should. Tomorrow marks three years since the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which was followed by several days’ worth of bizarre talk from the Obama Administration about the whole thing starting with a YouTube video. That was all complete garbage, of course, but they were desperate to pitch that narrative in order to protect the larger political narrative that Al Qaeda was on the run.

Three years later, it’s now ISIS that represents the major threat, but the administration’s stance is basically the same. They don’t want to really fight, and in order to keep that approach politicallly plausible, they need to put forward a narrative that the enemy is on the run and we’ve got the upper hand.

So when non-political analysts file reports that completely contradict that narrative, what does the Obama administration do? Alter them, of course. Unfortunately for them, a large group of the analysts is not just sitting back and taking it.


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: benghazi; isis; obama
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1 posted on 09/10/2015 6:49:41 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony

This is nothing new

Remember the Iraq war Bush 2 started?


2 posted on 09/10/2015 6:51:23 AM PDT by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: Sean_Anthony

It gets better.
China is now getting brassy.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3335165/posts

All it takes is a weak, effeminate, lying, POS president and voila, the worlds crazies want to rumble.


3 posted on 09/10/2015 6:52:11 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Sean_Anthony
Does anyone doubt the news media has been self censoring economic news for the past 6 years?

The day this POS leaves the White House all hell is gonna break loose.

4 posted on 09/10/2015 6:52:30 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Sean_Anthony

As long as Trump keeps playing the ‘Stupid Card’ he’ll stay on the right track. Every day another example comes forward.


5 posted on 09/10/2015 6:53:04 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: MadIsh32

Chemical weapons did indeed exist, they were indeed found, several were found via having been turned into IED’s.
(One Sarin, three or more Sulpher Mustard)


6 posted on 09/10/2015 6:53:25 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: MadIsh32

May I safely assume you have reports from the people who authored the intelligence briefings from W’s time that assert he altered the reports?

Or is this just normal FUD?


7 posted on 09/10/2015 6:53:44 AM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: Sean_Anthony

The entire last 6 1/2 years have just been happy talk.


8 posted on 09/10/2015 6:54:19 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: All
Here's who we have in the WH (gag).

Kenya-resident, Malik Obama in Muslim dress, holds up
photo of his half brother Obama in Muslim dress (left),
taken during Obama's earlier visit to his birthplace.

9 posted on 09/10/2015 6:55:34 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Sean_Anthony

This corrupt non-transparent pro-IslamicTerrorist
Administration would call the nuclear destruction
of 10 US cities and millions vaporized ... a vitamin.


10 posted on 09/10/2015 6:56:33 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Diogenesis

nothing to see here


11 posted on 09/10/2015 6:57:40 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: All

A guy enters a Muslim bookstore.

The Muslim owner asks if he could help.

The man said, “Do you have the book by Donald Trump about the problems caused by Muslim immigration?”

The owner answered, “OK, get the f–k out of here, and don’t ever come back, is that clear?”

The customer nodded: “Yes, that’s the one; do you have it in paperback?”

(courtesy Michael Goodwin, NYP)


12 posted on 09/10/2015 6:57:47 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Sean_Anthony
That was all complete garbage, of course, but they were desperate to pitch that narrative in order to protect the larger political narrative that Al Qaeda was on the run Obama's 2012 reelection chances.

Fixed it.

-PJ

13 posted on 09/10/2015 6:58:33 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Sean_Anthony; Admin Moderator

you forgot to hit the ‘excerpt’ box


14 posted on 09/10/2015 7:00:15 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: MadIsh32

Remember the Iraq war Bush 2 started?....Yes. The one Bill Clinton and all the Democrats demanded, but never took the impetus on? The one the UN approved of for the overt actions the Iranians took against UN sanctions (No Fly violations)? The one all the Democrats approved of? That one? The one that took the yellow cake away from Iran and terrorist groups? The one that Russians took chemical weapons to Syria in convoys, while the UN stalled for near two years before allowing attacks to begin? Yes, I remember.


15 posted on 09/10/2015 7:02:03 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Liz

Terrorist violence can make the previously unthinkable suddenly seem acceptable. The levels of surveillance introduced after 9/11 could have been considered reasonable only in the climate of collective panic that the attacks induced. But this week’s reaction to the fatal shooting of four Marines and a Navy petty officer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by a 24-year-old Muslim has to win the prize for the worst proposed civil liberties infringement to come out of a violent disruption. No matter how high tensions may have run after the Boston Marathon bombing or 9/11, few dared to propose what figures of both left and right have now suggested: the segregation and internment of Muslim citizens.

The first mention of internment came from a somewhat unexpected source: Gen. Wesley Clark, a Democrat known for his progressive-oriented presidential campaign in 2004. Interviewed on MSNBC in the shooting’s aftermath, Clark said the U.S. needed to increasingly get tough on “radicalized” individuals. He spoke favorably of the internment camps set up during World War II, saying that “if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech. We put him in a camp.” Lest there be any doubt what Clark was advocating, he insisted that for radicalized Muslims, “it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.”


16 posted on 09/10/2015 7:11:05 AM PDT by B212
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To: B212

Nice input...thanks.


17 posted on 09/10/2015 7:32:21 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Sean_Anthony

Same technique they use on unemployment and the economy.


18 posted on 09/10/2015 7:48:28 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Ok. This is treason. Benghazi was too.


19 posted on 09/10/2015 8:24:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: I want the USA back
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20 posted on 09/10/2015 8:26:28 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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